ITU Fiber Type | ITU Standard | Designed Wavelength | Deployed Fiber Vendor | Vendor Fiber Type | Max Waves on Fiber 1 | Rank |
SMF | G.652 | 1301 nm and 1550 nm | Corning | SMF-28 | 176 | 1 |
NZ-DSF | G.655 | 1550 nm window | Corning | E-LEAF | 176 | 2 |
Lucent | TureWave RS | 176 | 3 | |||
Corning | LEAF | 140 | 4 | |||
Lucent | TrueWave (Classic) | 80 | 5 | |||
Corning | SMF-LS | 70 | 6 | |||
DSF | G.653 | 1550 nm | Corning | DS | 60 | 7 |