News and BusinessShipments of the most advanced 3rd generation (400/600Gbps) and 5th generation coherent (800Gbps) WDM technology surged last year as network operators upgraded to the latest transmission hardware, according to the 4Q20 Transport Applications Report from Cignal AI. Ciena continues to lead shipments of advanced coherent technology, but Cisco, Infinera, Huawei, and Nokia began to take […]
News and BusinessFujitsu Network Communications, Inc. is collaborating with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Open Optical & Packet Transport (OOPT) project group to develop the first open and disaggregated 400G-capable transponder for large-scale DWDM networks. In support of the project’s aim to improve transport capacity and scalability, Fujitsu is contributing the latest 1FINITY™ transport platform and software […]
Technologies and ProductsDWDM and OTN equipment supplier PacketLight Networks, has released the PL-4000M muxponder. Delivering 400G capacity over a single wavelength, it speeds implementation of new services or quickly and affordably increases existing network capacity for DCI, metro, short-, and long-haul applications. The PL-4000M 1U modular device delivers cost-effective, high-capacity transport of 400G over a single wavelength […]
News and BusinessAs part of its goal to drive multi-vendor interoperability of enhanced performance coherent pluggable modules, the OpenZR+ Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) Group today announced that it has published the OpenZR+ Rev 1.0 specification and a supporting whitepaper. This specification, based on high-gain oFEC, is designed to enable 100G to 400G line rates, multiplexing and extended reaches […]
Technologies and ProductsAustralian operator Telstra, Ericsson and Ciena have announced the successful commercial launch of wavelength services based on 400G technology, which the operators says has increased network capacity whilst reducing power consumption, footprint and time to market for customers. The higher bandwidth services can now be delivered with a single card, offering on-demand capacity, from 100G […]
News and BusinessTest and measurement technology companies Coherent Solutions and SmarTest Electronics, have announced an exclusive partnership and supply agreement to develop integrated electro-optical test and measurement solutions for high volume 400G transceiver testing. The partnership gives Coherent Solutions exclusive access to SmarTest’s next-generation Bit Error Rate Testers (BERT) and Pulse Pattern Generators (PPG) which will initially […]
Technologies and ProductsPacketLight Networks has launched the PL-4000 product line of modular 400G muxponder and transponder for DCI, high capacity metro, and long-haul applications. The products are designed to help build high capacity networks and provide secure transport from 400G to 1.6T, with full visibility and performance monitoring of the optical transport layer (OTN), and support a […]
News and BusinessTurkish ISP TurkNet, is to use Ekinops’ FlexRate optical transport solutions to upgrade its core network, which provides businesses and individuals with uncapped high-speed broadband services across the country’s key cities. The first deployment of the Ekinops 400G equipment solution for TurkNet was managed successfully in April of this year in Istanbul, where traffic loads […]
Technologies and ProductsArista Networks has unveiled an optical line system in an OSFP (octal small form-factor pluggable) module. It is a compact, low power and cost-effective solution for increasing bandwidth between data centres without the need for external optical line systems. The Arista OSFP-LS addresses the needs of Tier2 cloud and internet service providers for high bandwidth […]
Technologies and ProductsCirencester, UK-based ProLabs, has expanded its next generation 400G network capabilities with the launch of its new transceiver solutions to address rising network capacity demands. The company says that increasing 5G traffic is placing pressure on network operators to upgrade their current infrastructure. To address these challenges and meet the capacity demands, both now and […]
Technologies and ProductsProLabs has launched its latest portfolio of transceiver solutions designed to ensure smooth digital transformation and support next-generation 400G technology, which, says the company, organisations are currently struggling to harness despite its ability to revolutionise industry operations for the better. ProLabs’ new solutions vow to facilitate the transition to 400G for organisations, minimising upgrade costs […]
Applications and ResearchInfinera and GlobalConnect, an integrated digital infrastructure provider in Northern Europe, has announced the successful completion of a field trial demonstrating 400G coherent transmission over a 50 GHz fixed grid metro transport network concurrently with pre-existing 10G channels. The industry-first field trial showcased GlobalConnect’s ability to easily and cost-effectively scale its current optical transport network […]
Guest Blog400G is now under release over multiple form-factors: QSDFP-DD, OSFP and CFP8. While the short-term deployment is on the access side, and mainly for intra-DC application, other applications such as DCI and transmission are also going on the 400G direction. As we are now getting familiar with the form-factors and the PAM4 modulation, it is […]
News and Business100G, 400G and 400+G transmission standards, 5G and transportation sensing will play starring roles at this year’s annual ECOC Exhibition (ECOC) as part of its must-attend Market Focus, which is renowned for providing insight into the very latest optical communications trends and provokes discussion across the breadth of the global fibre optics industry. “As new […]
Technologies and ProductsOpen networking systems developer Edgecore Networks has announced the introduction of Minipack, which it describes as the industry’s first open modular switch for 100G and 400G networking, conforming to the Minipack Fabric Switch design contributed today by Facebook to the Open Compute Project. Minipack is a disaggregated whitebox system providing a flexible mix of 100GbE […]
Technologies and ProductsEkinops, a supplier of optical transport equipment and router solutions for service providers and telecom operators, has announced the release of its latest optical white box networking solutions, the RM ROADM-H4-WB and RM ROADM-H10-WB at this year’s OFC Conference in San Diego. These open-source, standards-based ROADMs are tailored to the needs of Flexgrid networks, allowing […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation, which designs and manufactures advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based modules, has announced at OFC the limited availability of its Nano ultra-compact external cavity integrated tunable laser assembly (ITLA). The Nano-ITLA is based on the same high-performance external cavity architecture as NeoPhotonics’ Micro-ITLA product line. Further, the Nano-ITLA maintains comparable ultra-narrow linewidth, low frequency […]
Applications and ResearchGermany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has announced its participation in the innovative EU-Horizon 2020 research project TERIPHIC. This project, which formally kicked off in Berlin in late January, is taking place against a background of efforts to develop optical interfaces with Terabit capacity for datacom applications. The Institute notes that a practical path to the […]
Technologies and ProductsApplied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI), a provider of fibre-optic access network products for the internet datacentre, cable broadband, telecom, and FTTH markets, has announced customer sample availability of 400G optical modules based on silicon-photonics technology. The modules are designed to demonstrate the feasibility of applying AOI’s silicon photonics platform to the requirements of on-board optics (OBO), […]
Applications and ResearchAcacia Communications has announced the first 400G single carrier DWDM transmission on the 6,600 km Marea submarine cable between Virginia Beach, USA, and Bilbao, Spain. The field demonstration was conducted by Acacia in collaboration with Microsoft and Facebook, and helped to demonstrate that improvements in capacity and spectral efficiency can enable increased utilisation of deployed […]