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High Performance Analog
Our high-performance analog transmission devices and switching products support storage area network, fiber-to-the-premise, OTN and broadcast video typically operating at data transmission rates between 155 megabits per second (Mbps) and 10 gigabits per second (Gbps). Our transmission products include laser drivers, transimpedance amplifiers, post amplifiers, clock and data recovery circuits, signal conditioners, serializers/deserializers, video reclockers, cable drivers and line equalizers. These products serve as the connection between a fiber optic or coaxial cable component interface and the remainder of the electrical subsystem in various network equipment and perform a variety of functions, including:- Converting incoming optical signals from fiber optic cables to electrical signals for processing and transport over a wireline medium and vice-versa;
- Conditioning the signal to remove unwanted noise;
- Combining lower speed signals from multiple parallel paths into higher speed serial paths, and vice-versa, for bandwidth economy; and
- Amplifying and equalizing weaker signals as they pass through a particular system’s equipment, media or network.
Our switching products include a family of high-speed crosspoint switches capable of switching traffic beyond 8 Gbps within various types of network switching equipment. These crosspoint switches direct, or transfer, a large number of high-speed data input streams, regardless of traffic type, to different connection trunks for rerouting the information to new destination points in the network. Crosspoint switches are often used to provide redundant 10traffic paths in networking equipment to protect against the loss of critical data from spurious network outages or failures that may occur from time-to-time. Target equipment applications for our switching products include OTN systems, add-drop multiplexers, high-density IP switches and storage-area routers. In addition, we offer crosspoint switches optimized for standard and high-definition broadcast video routing and production switching applications.
