Its product portfolio consists of Transmission, Amplification, Network Managed Subsystems (NMS), Multiplexing and Signal Processing (MSP), Dispersion Compensation (DC), and Switching and Routing (SR) categories.
Transmission category products include laser diodes, avalanche photo detectors and photodiodes with or without integrated transimpedance amplifiers, modulators, transponders, transmitters, and receivers.
Amplification products include pump lasers, pump beam stabilizers, gain flattening filters, gain equalizers, erbium doped fiber amplifiers, Raman amplifiers, and semiconductor optical amplifiers.
NMS product category includes products that interface directly with other network elements using network level protocols and include network-managed versions of multiplexing, amplification, and switching and routing products.
MSP product category includes wavelength division multiplexing products, such as products based on thin film filter, fiber Bragg grating (FBG), planar, and interleaver technologies.
DC product category includes products that compensate for dispersion and dispersion slope in transmission systems and include fixed and tunable products based on dispersion compensating fiber, cascaded Giles Tourneau etalon, and FBG.
SR product category includes products that provide wavelengths at intermediate nodes in a transmission system, fixed optical add/drop multiplexing and OADM products based on thin film filter, FBG, planar, and interleaver technology, as well as other products combining variable optical attenuators and detectors, and reconfigurable products for reconfigurable OADM.
The company markets its products to telecommunications system integrators and their network carrier customers through direct sales, distributors, and representatives.
Avanex was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
