BroadBand Office Selects Zaffire as Optical Networking Systems Provider to Maximize its Nationwide Network - fiber optics industry - Buyers Guide

Zaffire, a developer of optical networking systems for metro and regional area networks, will supply BroadBand Office (BBO), a delivery platform for network and applications services, with critical networking systems designed to maximize BBO's broadband-rich platform in major metropolitan areas across North America.
Zaffire's Z3000 optical systems will be used to link the BBO network throughout metro and regional areas.
As corporate networks increase demand for high-bandwidth data transmission and advanced Internet-based services, maximizing network capacity and minimizing the lead time to add more services become major concerns of network designers. Zaffire will provide BBO advanced systems that combine multiple wavelengths of light onto a single fiber strand, using dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM). The result is an increase of up to 256 times the data-carrying capacity of the fiber that links multiple office sites together. With the Z3000 advanced software capabilities, these capacity increases can be implemented more quickly than with alternative solutions.
BBO will use the Z3000 to link its network, which spans over 30 of the most populous metropolitan areas in the US and provides the bandwidth for data-intensive applications such as advanced Internet access, virtual private networks, Web hosting, video, and e-business solutions. The selection of the Z3000 platform will uniquely position BBO to capitalize on the fast-growing corporate demand for bandwidth-intensive or real-time applications and services.
Using its patent-pending DWDM optical services platform, in conjunction with its ZOS cross-platform operating system, and its Z-Manager network management system, Zaffire's Z3000 combines robust software functionality with optical hardware innovations. This new solution features advanced technology such as digital wrapper and automated power balancing to help carriers solve the problem of bandwidth capacity bottlenecks in the metro and regional market -- and intelligently manage the fiber optic links between long-haul carriage and last-mile access.