MRV Products
The Fiber Driver™ WDM88/GMX, combining MRV
Communications' advanced Coarse Wave Division Multiplexer (CWDM) technology and
award-winning Gigabit Multimode Extender (GMX) technology, carries eight
separate data channels with an aggregate bandwidth of 8 Gbps (16 Gbps at Full
Duplex) to a guaranteed distance of 1 km over a Multimode (MM) fiber trunk.
The physical properties of Multimode fiber typically limit single
channel Gigabit-speed data transmissions to a distance of 550 meters or less,
far shorter than when Multimode fiber is used for transmitting legacy protocols
such as FDDI. This fact has left IT managers needing to increase the capacity of
their fiber network with little choice but to abandon their Multimode fiber and
install new Singlemode (SM) fiber. However, GMX technology, available
exclusively in the Fiber Driver product line, gives network administrators
another option.
The achievement of the WDM88/GMX brings new life to
existing Multimode fiber plant, making it possible to greatly increase network
capacity while avoiding the cost, complications and lead times associated with
the installation of new fiber. With support for Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel
and FICON, the WDM88/GMX is ideal for high-speed backbone, Campus, Enterprise
and Storage Area Network (SAN) applications. |
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