http://www.hp.com/pressrel/26feb96l.htm (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
San Jose, California. February 26, 1996
Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that it is offering the industry's most economical, full-performance SONET/SDH receiver -- the RCV5155 Microceiver fiber-optic receiver. The announcement was made here at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference.
The new product can be used in any SONET/SDH transmission or switching equipment designed for 155 MBd operation (OC-3/STM1 rates) operating over intermediate-reach (up to 15 km) or intra-office and short-reach (up to 2 km) single-mode fiber spans. It is ideal for reducing the manufacturing cost of single-mode-fiber telecommunications equipment and also can be used to upgrade data communications equipment for use with longer-distance single-mode fiber.
Applications include telecommunications networks, local area networks, control systems and digital cable-television networks. The performance and versatility of the Microceiver fiber-optic receiver also is available at a price that supports the high-unit-volume requirements of future home and office applications, such as fiber in the loop.
No other full-performance SONET/SDH receiver combines the mass-production economy of injection-molded plastic optics and leadframe packaging with an electronic design using large-scale integrated circuits. The Microceiver fiber-optic receiver is extremely small in size. Its integral fiber pigtail allows the system designer maximum flexibility in locating it on a motherboard and increasing on-board component density. A 50/125 micron multimode fiber pigtail is included, ensuring compatibility with multimode and single-mode fiber-optic installations. Designed for use in outside, uncontrolled environments, operation is specified over the extended temperature range of -40 C to +85 C.
The RCV5155 incorporates a planar PIN photodiode detector operating over the 1,200-nm to 1,600-nm wavelength region and a high-sensitivity, wide-dynamic-range transimpedance amplifier capacitively coupled to limiting amplifier stages with PECL output drivers. A loss-of-signal alarm output also is provided. Operational features include a low-pass filter to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio while minimizing inter-symbol interference. The interface amplifier provides signal conversion and buffering for the PECL complementary data outputs. The receiver operates from a +5Vdc source. Fully SONET/SDH compliant, the receiver offers a minimum sensitivity of -30 dBm at 155 Mb/s.
The RCV5155 is under $150 in production quantities. Samples are available from stock from HP.
Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 102,300 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year.
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Information in this release applies specifically to products available in the United States. Product availability and specifications may vary in non-U.S. markets.
