19 May 2006 VPIlinkConfigurator captures innovations as optical link design rules and equipment libraries, and helps application engineers respond to RFQs by configuring equipment automatically to meet brown and green field requirements. Applications
Equipment vendors use VPIlinkConfigurator to support technical sales activities while service providors use the same tool to devise long-term plans.
Equipment vendors
- Respond to RFQs with their best product offering (latest technology, lowest cost, easiest to upgrade, readily available, etc).
- Standardize their response to tenders and gather statistical information on sales profiles.
- Plan product lines by comparing the fit of equipment to dark-fiber route availability, for example.
- Supply VPIlinkConfigurator with their products so customers can: match equipment to existing OSP, pre-test reconfiguration strategies and plan upgrade strategies.
Service providers
- Devise long-term plans
- Select which fiber type to install
- Assess whether dark fiber can be utilized
- Predict issues with higher data-rate systems
- Compare costs of high and low bits/channel WDM systems
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