Furukawa Electric Unveils New Optical Fiber Cable For Broadband WDM Systems

August 27, 2002

The Furukawa Electric Co.,Ltd.(TSE:5801)today announced it released a new optical fiber cable using AllWave^(R) fiber, a flexible metro application specific fiber. Growing Japanese and Southeast Asian metro and access market is its target. While OFS,ex-Lucent Optical Fiber Solutions that Furukawa acquired last November with CommScope Inc.has been manufacturing this fiber, Furukawa is ready to manufacture this fiber in its domestic plant hereafter in addition to OFS.

Worldwide-popularized AllWave^(R) fiber used in this new cable enables full-range wavelength use from 1280 to 1625 nanometers. By applying the OH-absorption-free manufacturing process that decreases the loss at approximately 1385 nanometers to the maximum limit, available range expanded by 50% than before.

AllWave^(R) is fully qualified for the international standard ITU-T G.652.C, and has equal performance and compatibility with conventional single-mode fibers in other specifications. In addition, the fiber lowers transmissions cost using coarse WDM. This technique widens wavelength spacing between channels to yield cost-effective network growth between the metropolitan network and end-user.

For DWDM long haul networks, Furukawa Electric has a series of optical cables using TrueWave^(R) RS" fiber, a non-zero dispersion shifted optical fiber.

AllWave^(R) and TrueWave^(R) RS are registered trademarks of Fitel USA, Corp.