CIENA CORPORATION LAUNCHES ITS DWDM SYSTEM WITH TELEWAY JAPAN CORPORATION.SAVAGE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996--Ciena Corporation announced today that Teleway Japan Corporation has agreed to deploy Ciena's dense wavelength division multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) system in the major Tokyo-to-Osaka portion of Teleway's fiber optic network. Installation of Ciena's MultiWave(TM) 1600 DWDM system will permit Teleway to immediately expand its fiber optic network capacity between Tokyo and Osaka by a factor of four and in the future by up to sixteen times without requiring the additional installation of expensive new optical fibers. The Teleway installation will be the first deployment of Ciena's equipment outside the U.S. "In the increasingly deregulated and competitive global telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. market those carriers which can offer the highest capacity, the most reliable service and the lowest prices will have the competitive advantage," stated Mr. Tadahisa Sumida, Teleway Senior Managing Director, "and Ciena's high capacity MultiWave and open systems architecture will help ensure that Teleway is the leading Japanese new common carrier in these areas." Established in 1984 by the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Japanese Highway Association, Teleway is one of several of Japan's new common carriers (NCC NCC See National Clearing Corporation (NCC). ). Teleway has demonstrated a history of being an early adopter of the latest in new telecommunications technologies. It was the first NCC in Japan to install synchronous digital hierarchy (communications, standard) Synchronous Digital Hierarchy - (SDH) An international digital telecommunications network hierarchy which standardises transmission around the bit rate of 51.84 megabits per second, which is also called STS-1. (SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ) terminals, and concurrent with the installation of the Ciena DWDM systems, Teleway plans to upgrade the speed of its SDH equipment to 2.5 Gbps per channel. Combined with a 4-channel MultiWave DWDM system, this will give Teleway the first 10 Gbps per optical fiber capacity in Japan. Before DWDM technology, the useful capacity of standard optical fibers was limited to approximately 40,000 simultaneous telephone calls. By dividing an optical fiber into 16 individual lightwaves, Ciena's MultiWave 1600 system can boost the carrying capacity carrying capacity the number of animal units that a farm or area will carry on a year round basis, including that needed for conservation of winter feed. Usually stated as dry cows or dry sheep equivalents per hectare. of a single fiber to more than half a million simultaneous conversations. MultiWave, coupled with Ciena's sophisticated network management system, WaveWatcher&, and the new SDH terminals will provide Teleway with one of the most technologically advanced, high capacity fiber optic networks in the world. Ciena also announced that Nissho Electronics Corporation has agreed to act as Ciena's exclusive MultiWave distributor for Japan, and will assist with the Teleway installation. "Ciena is proud to announce that Teleway is our first international customer, and that Nissho will be a key Ciena channel to access the significant and growing Asian telecommunications market," stated Dr. Patrick Nettles net·tle n. 1. Any of numerous plants of the genus Urtica, having toothed leaves, unisexual apetalous flowers, and stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact. 2. Any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants. , Ciena's president and chief executive officer. "Nissho Electronics is pleased to have been chosen by Ciena to support the MultiWave installations at Teleway," responded Mr. Norio Saitoh, Nissho's executive vice president. "We expect that this will be the first of several deployments of MultiWave systems at Teleway and that other carriers in Japan and Asia will want to follow Teleway's technological leadership," Mr. Norio Saitoh concluded. In addition to the Teleway installation, Nissho will establish a MultiWave 1600 demonstration facility at the Nissho Ariake Visual Studio near the Tokyo `Big Site' convention center. Ciena Corporation Ciena Corporation NASDAQ: CIEN develops and markets communications network platforms and software, and offers professional services. The Company's broadband access, data and optical networking platforms, software tools, and global network services support worldwide telecom develops, manufactures and markets high-capacity fiber optic transmission systems for public networks. These systems unlock fiber bandwidth, improve network reliability and significantly reduce the cost of providing new broadband services See broadband and broadband service provider. . Ciena is providing real-life solutions today to combat the emerging bandwidth and capacity needs long-distance carriers will be faced with tomorrow. 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