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Stratos Lightwave Announces New Family of Low-Profile Optical Transceivers for Harsh Environment Applications

Posted on: Thursday, 23 October 2003, 06:00 CDT

PALM BAY, Fla., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stratos Lightwave Inc. has introduced a new family of low-profile optical transceivers with industry-standard duplex LC optical interfaces, designed for military, aerospace, industrial, or telecom applications where significant levels of shock and vibration and/or high temperatures may be experienced. These transceivers have an RJ-45 type footprint, but are only 0.38 inches (8.89mm) high. They are ideal for use in systems where both compact size and resistance to harsh environments are required.

Stratos Lightwave's new Low-Profile Optical Transceivers are available in a wide range of bit rates and protocols, including Fast Ethernet, OC-3, Fibre Channel (1x/2x), Gigabit Ethernet, and Infiniband. All versions are fully compliant with the applicable IEEE, ANSI, and/or Bellcore/Telcordia requirements, and their signals and interfaces are compatible with MSA specifications. These low-profile transceivers can be incorporated into systems which have conventional MSA-compliant signals, connectors, cable assemblies, and conventional MSA transceivers, with full compatibility. However, the Stratos devices offer reduced size and an increased resistance to harsh conditions.

Designed to operate in harsh environments, these new transceivers feature excellent thermal characteristics, high tolerance to vibration and shock and all-metal die-cast housings, which also give them exceptional EMI/RFI performance. Standard operating temperature range is -40 degrees C to +85 degrees C, with a standard storage temperature range of -55 degrees C to +100 degrees C.

Stratos is offering these transceivers in a number of versions, including 850nm VCSEL, 1310nm LED and 1310nm FP laser. Multimode models operate at distances to 2.0 Km while singlemode versions operate to distances of 15 Km. All operate from a standard +3.3VDC power supply, and are surface-mountable and compatible with standard aqueous wash processes.

Pricing for Stratos Lightwave's Low Profile Optical Transceivers is favorable compared to the typical pricing for devices and systems which have been designed for military applications and/or harsh environments. Depending on the data rate specified, at quantities of 1,000 pieces, the 850nm VCSEL transceiver is less than $200 each; the 1310nm LED transceiver is less than $100 each; and the 1310nm FP Laser transceiver is less than $300 each. Samples are available now, with production quantities of all versions available during 4Q2003.

While this new line of Stratos transceivers will be offered in a number of "standard" versions, Stratos will custom-configure a harsh-environment, low-profile transceiver with any bit rate from 1MB/s through 2.5GB/s, with any standard or non-standard protocol.

For additional technical specifications, application assistance, or to order product, contact Stratos Lightwave, Inc., 7444 W. Wilson Avenue, Chicago, IL 60706, USA. Phone: 708-867-9600. Fax: 708-867-4140. E-mail: info@stratoslightwave.com URL: http://www.stratoslightwave.com/

Stratos Lightwave is a market leader in high data rate optical communications, with a comprehensive line of high-performance, highly reliable fiber optic modules and subsystems. Stratos produced the industry's first Multimode LED and VCSEL-based LC transceivers for Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications, and one of the first to offer 1Gbps 1x9-pin SC VCSEL transceivers, 2xFibre Channel Small Form Factor (SFF) transceivers and Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers. Stratos' highly miniaturized RJ-Format modules are the industry's first and most compact multi-port LC optical transceivers.

Stratos Lightwave, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells optical subsystems and components for high data rate networking, data storage, and telecommunications applications. These optical subsystems are used in local area networks (LANs), storage area networks (SANs), metropolitan area networks (MANs), wide area networks (WANs), and the telecommunications market. The company also designs, manufactures, and sells a full line of optical components and cable assemblies for use in these networks.

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