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OE Solutions America, Inc., a supplier of optoelectronic transceiver solutions for optical communications, has announced the expansion of its Bi-directional single fiber SFP Transceiver portfolio.

Earlier in the year OE Solutions announced the introduction of the OBT12SLX product family which addressed the IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) Standard, supporting 1000BASE- BX10-U for 10km upstream applications over a single strand of singlemode fiber. The product offering has now been expanded to include Fast Ethernet, OC-3, Gigabit Ethernet and 1Gb FibreChannel interfaces with reaches as far as 40km and OC-48 and 2Gb FibreChannel interfaces with reaches as far as 15km. All of the transceivers conform to SFP Multi-Source Agreement and support a standard temperature range of -5 to +75 degrees Celsius, an extended temperature range of -10 to +85 degrees Celsius, or an industrial temperature range of -40 to +85 degrees Celsius.

“Single fiber solutions are fast becoming a key technology for point-to-point applications where fiber management and fiber exhaust are a growing concern” said Mike Fukatsu, Director of Sales and Marketing for OE Solutions. “An industrial temperature Bi-directional SFP solution can help lower the infrastructure costs of Active Ethernet Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployments, and help increase capacity in Fiber- to-the-Node (FTTN) applications without requiring a costly system redesign.”

According to Moon Soo Park, the company’s Chief Technical Officer, technology that OE Solutions originally developed for Passive Optical Network (PON) applications was leveraged to create a unique portfolio of products. “Gigabit Ethernet transmission over 40km on a single fiber is now a commercial reality” said Park. “And with support for hardened environments, applications in remote terminal and outside plant applications can now operate with half the required fiber.”