Adtran broadens its OLS and access module offerings

Adtran has unveiled two products before the OFC show in San Francisco taking place at the end of the month. 

One is a 50 gigabit-per second (Gbps) SFP56 optical transceiver that uses 4-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM-4) for 5G front-haul and enhanced broadband applications.  

The second product is the FSP 3000 IP OLS, a compact open line system (OLS) designed for point-to-point links between sites 120km apart. 

The OLS has been developed to simplify the setting up of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical links.    

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ADTRAN-ADVA's metro-access play

ADTRAN and ADVA have agreed to merge after a long courtship.

The two CEOs have spoken regularly over the years but several developments spurred them to act.

Tom Stanton, ADTRAN CEO

The merger combines ADTRAN’s expertise in access technologies with ADVA’s metro wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) know-how to create a ‘metro-core-to-door’ company with revenues of $1.2 billion.

As such, the merger promises to double their size and networking skills. Yet the stock market appeared underwhelmed by the announcement, with ADTRAN’s shares down 16% for the rest of the week after the deal was announced. 

Market research analysts, however, are more upbeat.

“ADTRAN and ADVA have a better path forward together than separately,” said John Lively, principal analyst at LightCounting Market Research, in a research note.

The deal is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2022 but only after several hurdles are overcome in what is described as a complex deal.

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