Advancing innovation
with optical breakthroughs

User demand for faster and more reliable mobile, business, video and Internet services is surging. Today, to download a high-definition video, you may wait and wait. Fast-forward a few years: you'll be watching that movie in minutes.

To deliver that vision requires new bandwidth management solutions and more cost-effective ways to carry traffic, including optical and Ethernet networking. With Tellabs^® Optical Solutions, service providers can quickly and cost-effectively add bandwidth in networks — with just a few keystrokes.

Technologies such as ROADM (remote optical add drop multiplexer), Ethernet and OTN (optical transport network) enable customers to deliver high-bandwidth services cost-effectively.

One of Tellabs' optical customers operates the world's largest ROADM network, delivering mobile, business and consumer services on an efficient, converged platform. The results: capital expenses decreased 65%, power consumption fell 65% and operating expenses dropped 85%. Tellabs optical customers include wireline service providers, mobile carriers and cable TV multiple system operators around the world.

Professional services enable network efficiencies

Tellabs^® Global Services offers customers a unique depth of experience in planning and architecting high-performance optical networks.

For example, Tellabs has extensive expertise in migrating live traffic from existing equipment to new optical equipment without disrupting service to users. This experience enables customers to increase capacity or reduce costs with minimal impact to user service availability.

We also help customers avoid costly network redesigns and delays in implementation through network planning and design.