Benefits

PetaComm has developed unique and proprietary liquid crystal (LC)-based optical switching technologies for intelligent and multifunctional OXCs in order to deliver scalability, mass-manufacturability, reliability, modularity, low cost, and high performance. The above table summarizes a competitive technology comparison between PetaComm’s solution and the other alternative approaches.

PetaComm’s solution can provide the following competitive advantages:

• Scalable and fully nonblocking OXC architecture
• Mass-manufacturable OXC device structure
• Reliable and solid-state optical switching mechanism with no moving parts (insensitive to shock & vibrations)
• Elimination of inter-stage fiber cross-connects to yield low cost
• Novel and monolithically integrated “window architecture” for LC-OXC Utilization of mature & commercially proven liquid crystal & polarization optics technologies
• Multifunctional and intelligent OXC switch fabric
• Modular device configuration to enable “grow-as-needed” deployment strategies