ADVA optical networking fiber platform deployed in Florida county

ADVA Optical Networking's Fiber Service Platform 3000 has been deployed by the Seminole County, FL government. The system is being used to quickly and cost-effectively accommodate growth in its voice, data, and video bandwidth requirements.

Seminole County selected Siemens Information and Communication Networks to deploy ADVA's Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 3000 as a converged network solution over a common metro optical network. Siemens resells ADVA's FSP products, including the FSP 3000, through a strategic and long-term partnership between the two companies.

With the introduction of new voice, data, and video applications, the Seminole County government's bandwidth needs had exceeded the capabilities of its OC-3 Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) infrastructure. Expansion of the county's infrastructure through deployment of additional optical fiber was found to be too expensive and time-consuming, so Seminole County instead sought a solution based on Dense Wavelength Division (DWDM) technology that would expand the capacity of its existing installed fiber infrastructure.

ADVA's FSP 3000 was selected because it is designed for scalability, interoperability with legacy Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network equipment, flexibility in application support, and low total cost of ownership.

"We saved a tremendous amount of time and took advantage of the bandwidth from the moment we plugged ADVA's solution in," says Greg Holcomb, information technologies manager for the Seminole County government. "We would have been looking at probably two months to a year to lay all of the new fiber we would have required. The proposal from ADVA said its system was plug and play and could be installed in two weeks. We figured that wasn't possible, but, literally within two weeks, we had scaled from 10Mbit/s to Gigabit Ethernet speeds and were running at full speed."

"Seminole County is a case where the return on investment for the FSP 3000 was virtually instantaneous," says Brian McCann, chief marketing and strategy officer at ADVA Optical Networking. "The government experienced an immediate, tremendous bandwidth increase, without incurring the high cost of installing new fiber in the streets. The FSP 3000 will furthermore easily scale to meet the government's needs for transporting voice, data, and video applications on a common metro optical network for the foreseeable future."

The FSP 3000 employs parallel use of DWDM and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) technology to enable all protocols between 8Mbit/s and 10Gbit/s and up to 256 applications to be transported over one single fiber pair. The system's design supports point-to-point, linear add/drop, ring, and meshed network topologies of up to 10 nodes across distances up to 500 kilometers without regeneration.

ADVA is based in Martinsried, Germany. For more information visit
www.advaoptical.com.