NICTA inks commercial licence agreement

Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, NICTA, has signed a commercial licence agreement with Optium, a supplier of optical subsystems, covering optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring technology.

This is the first technology licence agreement exploiting research in the Managing and Monitoring the Internet (MAMI) project, which is based at NICTA’s Victoria Research Laboratory.

NICTA’s new-generation OSNR monitoring technology is compatible with optical switches, including reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), and can distinguish and measure the impairment caused by optical amplifier noise, improving the ability to manage telecommunications networks.