The optical industry loves a good debate about standards! The current generation of Ethernet standards was controversial, being the first where two standards – 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet – were developed simultaneously. The same debate about what the next generation of Ethernet should look like is now in full swing. In August, […]
ZTE claims to have set a new world record for 400G high-speed optical transmission based on single-carrier DWDM. The Chinese vendor presented a paper about its work at ECOC in Amsterdam. In the experiment, ZTE successfully transmitted 40 channels, each carrying 400Gbps, over 2800km of standard singlemode fibre arranged in 35 spans, with […]
Team members of MODE-GAP, an European collaborative R&D project that is part of the EU 7th Framework Programme on next-generation internet infrastructure, presented no fewer than three post-deadline papers at the ECOC 2012 conference in Amsterdam. Now half-way through its four year programme, the MODE-GAP project is exploring ways to increase the capacity […]
NeoPhotonics has announced a multiport mode coupling receiver (MCR) transceiver that enables operators to boost the efficiency of their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks by connecting up to four times as many homes to each existing OLT slot in a central office. One common approach to reduce the cost of FTTH installation is to keep […]