Calient Networks manufacturers the revolutionary DiamondWave® family of Fiber Optic Cross-Connection Systems (FOCS) for telecommunications service providers worldwide. Calient’s design and manufacturing breakthroughs have reduced the cost of FOCS solutions by two orders of magnitude since customer shipments began in 2002, allowing service providers to master the deluge of new fiber deployments in a cost-effective, scalable, and reliable manner. Calient’s customers include Tier I-III telephone common carriers seeking to streamline their fiber plant operations and FTTx network operators seeking a competitive operations advantage.
Calient Networks provides intelligent all-optical switching systems and GMPLS networking software that help service providers reduce the cost of scaling their optical network infrastructure. Calients DiamondWave switching system and GMPLS-powered networking innovations provide a seamless migration path that is non-disruptive to legacy operations, highly cost-effective, and an enabler to revenue-generating optical services. Calient is shipping its DiamondWave systems in configurations ranging from 32x32 to 256x256 to carrier networks worldwide.