…problem you’ve likely never heard of – cycle slips. Now for some good news: With more than ten years of development behind us, Ciena has engineered our coherent products from the ground up to eliminate failures due to cycle slips. “Cycle slip isn’t an insurmountable obstacle. But it…

Cycle slips can spell trouble for service providers. If a coherent system is not designed properly, cycle slips can cause bit errors that lead to packet loss, video degradation and other imperfections that mean you can't meet your service level agreements. Kim Roberts explains how Ciena's WaveLogic technology can help prevent performance penalties by minimizing cycle slips and mitigating their effects.

…Generic Flow Control GFF Gain Flattening Filter (used in EDFA) GFP Generic Framing Procedure GFR Guaranteed Frame Rate GHz Gigahertz; One billion cycles per second GMPLS Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching GMT Greenwich Mean Time; Grasshoppers Made for Telecommunications (GMT fuses) GN Gateway…

…lull in the industry news cycle.  That definitely wasn?t the case for Ciena last month, as June produced a bevvy of news items for the company that ranged from new product introductions to Tier 1 customer news to the introduction of something called "coherent cycle slips."   So we start off…

…Cycle Slips: Not all coherent technology is created equal Our most controversial post of the year was one that focused on the red hot area of coherent 100G technology.  Kim Roberts, Ciena?s resident optical guru and a legend in the industry, helped co-write this post highlighting the issue of cycle…