
PowerRedundancy
Inordertoremainfunctional,evenintheeventofcomponentfailures,theWDMemploysthefollowingredundancies:
Twopowersupplyslots,withloadequalizingandprotectioncircuitryonthebackplane.Eachsupplyhasthermalandovercurrent
protection.
Eachchannelhasitsownindependentpowersupplythatrunsoff
ofthemainpowerrails,sothatafailureinonechannelwillleave
theothersoperational.
Thereisamicroprocessorintheunit,butitsfunctionispurelymonitoring.Ifitfails,thedatawillcontinuetoflowunimpededonall
opticalchannels.
Therearetwoindependent
fancontrolchannels,andtwocoolingfansoneachsideoftheunit.
DifferencesbetweenWDM16,WDM8AandWDM8B
ThefunctionalandphysicalcharacteristicsoftheWDM16,WDM8AandWDM8Barelargelyidentical.Thesingledifferentiatoristhenumber
ofActiveWaveDivisionchannelsandtheassociatedinternalwavelengthsthataresupported.Thechassisdimensionsandpowersupplies
remainidentical.
TheWDM16supportsallofthe16standardCWDMwavelengths
of1310‐1610nm,whereastheWDM8unitssupportonly8ofthose
channels,sotheinstallationcanbescaledtotheappropriatesize.TheWDM8Asupportstheupper8wavelengths1470‐1610nmandthe
WDM8Bsupportsthelower8wavelengths1310‐1450nm.BecauseoftheenormouslyflexibleactivenatureoftheWDM16/8,the
wavelengthsoftheinternalchannelsarebasicallyinvisible andevenirrelevanttotheenduser.Thereasonstherearetwosubsetsof
wavelengthssupportedthroughtheWDM8AandWDM8Bisforfutureexpandabilityofthelineinprovidingthepossibilityofadd/drop,
combiningandsplitting
capability.
Whenonly8channelpointtopointfunctionalityisdesired,theWDM8Ashouldbethemodelofchoice.
Model Channels InternalWavelengths
WDM16 16 1310‐1610nm
WDM8A 8 1470‐1610nm
WDM8B 8 1310‐1450nm
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