Several new key optical capabilities for its XDM® optical networking platform in line with the 1Net framework as announced earlier this year have been announced by a global provider of networking infrastructure solutions, ECI Telecom. Reducing overall costs by eliminating back-to-back regeneration and enabling carriers to increase revenues by significantly improving response time for deployment of new services, ECI, by introducing a new 2-degree (2D) ROADM, brings end-to-end flexibility to carrier networks. Complementing ECI's leading best-of-breed multi-degree WSS ROADM, the new 2D ROADM was cost-efficiently designed for metro-core and metro-edge segments. The new ROADM is optimal for sites with lower degree needs, or requiring full add/drop capability.

The multi-service, multi-rate ADM-on-Card (AoC) is an additional feature introduced today. Combining the cost-efficiency of an optical platform with the granularity and flexibility previously available in SDH/SONET networks, the AoC is a next-generation optical service card. Without an actual SONET/SDH matrix. ECI's AoC offers the industry's highest density on a single card, the AoC leverages the high-capacity and scalability of the OTN layer and the advantages of SDH/SONET-like networks. The AOC, among its many benefits, is particularly optimized for video applications, featuring multicast drop-and-continue capabilities.

These features are part of ECI's recently announced 1Net framework. While facilitating the transition to next-generation networks, ECI 1Net is committed to offer carriers lower total cost of ownership and increased revenue opportunities.

Operators are able, with improved end-to-end planning tools, to easily design and optimize their networks, dramatically reducing response time in any necessary redesign of the network. These new features work in concert with ECI's leading LightSoft® Network Management System. Using a unified and centralized system, resulting in both capex and opex savings, ECI's LightSoft multi-layer approach allows carriers to manage all technologies and network segments.