About Us
Located in Australia, Finisar WSS provides world-class wavelength management components and subsystems, including wavelength selective switches (WSS), to leading networking equipment manufacturers.
Enabled by Finisar Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) technology, Finisar WSS products support Flexgrid® technology, which provides dynamic control of the channel width. Furthermore, once deployed, channel plans are configurable ‘on-the-fly’, meaning that channel bandwidths can be adjusted to most efficiently carry future demand as it arises. Furthermore, Flexgrid® functionality offers full backwards compatibility with both the standard 100 GHz and 50 GHz ITU grids. Flexgrid® functionality also enables the equalization of the power within a single channel, especially important for multicarrier optical signals.
Products
Dual and Quad Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS)
Single Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS)
World-Leading Technology
Dual and Quad Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS)
The application of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADM) in DWDM optical networks has expanded in recent years to support increasingly more directions as well as increased flexibility in the add/drop structure. Flexgrid® technology is now essential in the efficient use of optical bandwidth for extremely high data rates and advanced modulation formats employed by next generation DWDM transmitters/receivers, including 400Gb/s and 1 Tbit/s signals. These higher data rates require that channel spacing is flexible and can be increased real-time to allow the network to adapt to new transmission formats. Deployment of colorless directionless (CD) ROADMs and colorless, directionless, contentionless (CDC) is facilitated by the introduction of route & select (R&S) ROADM architectures, which, unlike broadcast & select (B&S) ROADMs that require only one WSS per direction, are based on two WSS per direction.
By integrating two WSS, each featuring superior optical performance, in a single module the dual WSS modules by Finisar are optimized for this new generation of R&S ROADMs. Dual WSS modules can also be used as CD 2xNxM Add/Drop modules and the platform can be scaled up to four WSS integrated in a single module without sacrificing optical performance to create the new generation of Quad WSS products.
- Dual (two WSS integrated in a module) and Quad (four WSS integrated in a module) WSS
- Configurations: 2x1xN WSS, 4x1xN WSS and Colorless/Directionless 2xNxM WSS
- Alternate common port
- Flexgrid® Dynamic Channel Width Control (fully ITU flexible grid G.694.1 compliant)
– 6.25 GHz Width Resolution (default, 3.125GHz optional)
– No constraints on the spectrum allocated to a super-channel
– Hitless channel widening, narrowing and migration with 6.25 GHz resolution - Flexgrid® Dynamic Attenuation Control
– 6.25 GHz Resolution
– 0 – 20dB Range
– Hitless channel and intra-channel power equalization - LCoS Switching Technology
- Frequency range: 4.8 THz (default) – wider frequency range up to 10THz (C+L-band) can be supported
- Broadcast & Select ROAD Architectures
- Route & Select ROADM Architectures
- ROADM Node on a blade – multiple degrees on a single blade
- Multi-fiber DWDM network – multiple fiber pairs per direction
- Colorless Directionless Add/Drop
- 1+ Tb/s Transport ready
- Dynamic Gain Equalization
- Multi-carrier Superchannels
- Alien Wavelength Routing
- Flexgrid and Fixed grid ITU 50GHz and 100G
Single Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS)
The application of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADM) in DWDM optical networks has expanded in recent years to support increasingly more types of networks including replacing fixed structure at the cost-sensitive metro and edge. Flexgrid® technology is now essential in the efficient use of optical bandwidth for extremely high data rates and advanced modulation formats employed by next generation DWDM transmitters/receivers, including 400Gb/s and 1 Tbit/s signals. These higher data rates require that channel spacing is flexible and can be increased real-time to allow the network to adapt to new transmission formats.
Cost-effective deployment of colorless (C) and colorless directionless (CD) ROADMs is facilitated by the introduction of broadcast & select (B&S) ROADM architectures, which, unlike route & select (R&S) ROADMs that require only two WSS per direction, are based on one WSS per direction.
- Configurations: 1xN WSS, N ≤ 20
- Flexgrid® Dynamic Channel Width Control (fully ITU flexible grid G.694.1 compliant)
– 6.25 GHz Width Resolution (default, 3.125GHz optional)
– No constraints on the spectrum allocated to a super-channel
– Hitless channel widening, narrowing and migration with 6.25 GHz resolution - Flexgrid® Dynamic Attenuation Control
– 6.25 GHz Resolution
– 0 – 20dB Range
– Hitless channel and intra-channel power equalization - LCoS Switching Technology
- Frequency range: 4.8 THz (default) – wider frequency range up to 6THz (Super C-band) can be supported
- Broadcast & Select ROADM Architectures
- Colorless and Colorless Directionless Add/Drop
- 1+ Tb/s Transport ready
- Dynamic Gain Equalization
- Multi-carrier Superchannels
- Alien Wavelength Routing
- Flexgrid and Fixed grid ITU 50GHz and 100GHz
World-Leading Technology
News
September 15, 2023
Finisar Australia Releases the World’s First Flexgrid® Twin 16×40 Wavelength Selective Switch
October 20, 2021
Finisar WSS and NTT Jointly Demo First C+L-band CDC-ROADM
October 4, 2021
Finisar Australia Releases the World’s First Flexgrid® Twin 1×48 Wavelength Selective Switch
April 20, 2021
Finisar WSS Products Honored by Lightwave Innovation Reviews
August 31, 2020
Finisar Australia Releases World’s First C+L-band Wavelength Selective Switch
March 11, 2020
Finisar Australia Releases World’s First Quad 4x1x9 Wavelength Selective Switch with Flexgrid® Technology at OFC 2020
News
Finisar WSS and NTT Jointly Demo First C+L-band CDC-ROADM
October 4, 2021
Finisar Australia Releases the World’s First Flexgrid® Twin 1×48 Wavelength Selective Switch
April 20, 2021
Finisar WSS Products Honored by Lightwave Innovation Reviews
August 31, 2020
Finisar Australia Releases World’s First C+L-band Wavelength Selective Switch
March 11, 2020
Finisar Australia Releases World’s First Quad 4x1x9 Wavelength Selective Switch with Flexgrid® Technology at OFC 2020
Events
OFC 2024
March 26-28, 2024
San Diego, CA
Events
ECOC 2022
September 19 – 21, 2022
Basel, Switzerland
Careers
Contact careers@finisar.com to
learn about job opportunities at Finisar WSS.
Current Openings
- Automation and Controls Systems Engineer
- Production Engineer
- MES Configuration Analyst
- Automation Software Engineer (LabView)
- Senior Mechanical Engineer
Careers
Contact Us
Address: 21 Rosebery Ave, Rosebery NSW 2018, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9581 1600
Contact email: FinisarWSS@Finisar.com