Open Optical Line Systems

Fulfill Coherent Optical Transport Needs Rapidly and Economically

Are your existing vendors unable to meet your needs for new coherent optical transport links? Ribbon can relieve the situation.

Apollo offers a broad range of coherent alien wavelengths solutions, from 100G to 1.2T, with field-proven operation over third-party optical line systems (OLS), and options for layer 1 optical encryption.

All alien wavelength solutions can be packaged in compact 2RU platforms, or larger ones as needed, and are controllable via an EMS or through an OpenConfig API.

Apollo open optical line systems transports wavelengths from any router, switch, or optical transport system. All controls for Apollo wavelengths can also be applied to third-party alien wavelengths, including provisioning, performance monitoring, and dynamic WSON restoration.

Further, Apollo open OLS extends the concept of alien wavelengths to alien spectrum. This comes in two varieties. Spectral pipes allow end-users to setup their own wavelengths over point-to-point bandwidth. Spectral slicing takes this further whereby end-users can also manage spectrum through ROADMs as a virtual optical network.