Polatis release new series of products for routing signals

Polatis, a supplier of high performance optical switch products, has released a new series of products for routing signals in the rapidly growing high definition video industry.
The Trinity family of optical video routing switches is a specialised product for customers in the video transport, broadcast, intelligence and video postproduction industries. Through its all-optical nature, Trinity expands the capabilities of today's broadcast infrastructure to meet the needs of existing & future broadcast standards.
While the vast majority of audio and video transport signals are carried over copper today, distances are limited to only 50-100 metres for transporting new high definition standards such as 1080p. Transport by optical fibre permits far greater distances without amplifying and re-clocking.
All-optical switching enables the signal to be routed with universal interfaces capable of handling virtually any audio and video signal, whether analogue or digital.
The Trinity series is designed specifically for the video transport and broadcast market. It supports virtually all protocols and feed rates - AES, SMPTE-276M, 259M, and 292M, ASI/DVB, NTSC, PAL, QAM, and others.
Under-pinning the Trinity design is Polatis' unique beam-steering technology. Unlike other photonic solutions, Trinity can establish and maintain connection routes without a signal present, in a pre-provisioned 'ready and waiting state'. Not relying on an optical signal feedback to maintain the connection also means no modulation is introduced to the signal, a feature valued by customers who use Polatis products for RF-over-fibre applications today.
Like all Polatis products, traffic can be bi-directional, and carry single or multiple wavelengths.
Trinity is the highest performing product in its class, with optical losses less than 1 dB for its 16x16 product. Polatis is introducing two products, a 1RU product, managing up to a total of 32 fibre interfaces, and a 3RU product, managing up to a total of 64 fibre interfaces.
As part of several new product introductions, Polatis has planned the worldwide unveiling of Trinity as part of this year's OFC/NFOEC 2006 tradeshow in Anaheim, California. At the show, Polatis will integrate its Trinity product into an end-to-end video network to demonstrate optical switching of uncompressed video signals.
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