News and BusinessCityFibre, the UK’s largest independent wholesale full fibre platform, has announced the successful deployment of its first 800 Gbps backbone wavelength in partnership with network technology solutions vendor, Ciena. CityFibre says this is a key milestone on its path to building a full fibre digital infrastructure that will reach up to 8 million premises in […]
Technologies and ProductsADVA has announced that CSC – IT Center for Science, which operates the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET), has set an industry record by transporting 800Gbps further than ever before over a live network. Using the ADVA FSP 3000 TeraFlex™ CoreChannel™, FUNET’s succeeded in transmitting data at 800Gbps on links exceeding 2,000km. The field […]
News and BusinessFurukawa Electric and Fujitsu Optical Components (FOC) have agreed to collaborate on product development of integrated devices for next-generation, high-capacity optical communications. The companies say they will utilise the strengths of both companies to develop high-capacity, compact, low power consumption devices for next-generation communications networks, meeting the need for solutions in the Asia region. The […]
News and BusinessTPG Telecom has announced a major upgrade of its submarine cable connecting Australia and Guam to significantly boost cable capacity and improve reliability using Infinera’s ICE6 800G solution. PPC-1, TPG Telecom’s ultra-long-haul cable system connecting Australia, Guam and Papua New Guinea, has two fibre pairs spanning approximately 7,000 kilometres, with 78 repeaters spaced approximately 92 […]
Technologies and ProductsADVA has launched its FSP 3000 TeraFlex™ CoreChannel™, giving content and service providers the ability to transmit 800Gbps over greater distances than ever before. ADVA says that using 140GBd sub-carrier technology, the CoreChannel™ sled offers the market’s longest reach for a single-channel 800Gbps solution, enabling ultra-high-capacity transport over existing and new network infrastructure of more […]
Spirent Communications and InnoLight Technology have announced the successful validation of 800G optical transceiver interoperability. Spirent says that vital to the next stage of high-speed Ethernet evolution, this latest interoperability success signals a further step towards 800G implementation. The company added that the partnership with optical transceiver manufacturer InnoLight Technology successfully demonstrated an 800G link […]
News and BusinessVogel Telecom, a Brazilian wholesale and B2B telecommunications provider, has deployed Sao Paulo’s first 800G optical network using Ciena’s coherent optical platform. Vogel says it can now transport the most capacity over a single wavelength and remotely turn up capacity quickly and easily as needed through Ciena’s pay-as-you-grow model. The new infrastructure helps Vogel deploy […]
News and BusinessCiena and NTT Com will deploy a single-wave 800G line speed solution for Datacentre Interconnect (DCI) using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme® optical platform, it has been announced. To accommodate the rapid growth of 5G, gaming and cloud services, NTT Com will upgrade its DCI network to be more programmable, resilient and high-capacity. “Since its inception, […]
News and BusinessA new report from analysts Communications Industry Researchers (CIR), finds that the market opportunity for 800G transceivers and above will reach US$245 million in revenues by 2025 rising to to US$2.5 billion by 2029. Driven initially by video, CIR expects the traffic in data centres will be further driven by 5G and IoT applications requiring […]
News and BusinessPIT Chile, a major Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for major CDNs including Facebook, Fastly, Google, Microsoft, and local Chilean ISPs businesses, has deployed PacketLight’s PL-2000T transponder to connect two of its data centres in Santiago, Chile. PIT Chile required a high capacity and high-speed solution capable of supporting a 200G protected DCI link between two […]
Applications and ResearchCiena has broken the record for the longest 800G transmission, according to a report on the company’s website. Helen Xenos, Ciena’s senior director, portfolio marketing, writing on the company website, said the company turned up an 800G wavelength from Toronto to Quebec City across a ‘world record-breaking’ 970km distance, 20km further than Infinera’s recent test […]
News and BusinessVodafone New Zealand is to deploy 800G technology using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics between its data centres in Auckland. Vodafone says it is achieving record transmission speeds to support growing, yet constantly fluctuating, demands for digital services while enabling a greener network. By implementing Ciena’s WL5e, Vodafone says it can better manage […]
Technologies and ProductsInfinera and US infrastructure provider Windstream, have completed a live network trial that achieved an 800G single-wavelength transmission over 730km across Windstream’s long-haul network between San Diego and Phoenix. In addition, by looping back the signal and derating it to 700G, transmission over 1,460km was achieved. The trial was performed using Infinera’s fifth-generation coherent optical […]
News and BusinessCiena has announced contract wins with Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier, the international wholesale unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), and Telia Carrier in the US. The contract with Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier sees the first European 800G network going live, connecting data centres in Vienna, Austria. Ciena will supply its WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) to satisfy […]
News and BusinessInfinera has announced the successful completion of a live network trial of 800G single wavelength transmission at 96 Gbaud over 950 kilometres across a long-haul link in a major North American network operator’s production network. Powered by Infinera’s sixth generation dual-800G Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE6) technology, this achievement signals a major industry milestone in driving […]
Technologies and ProductsHigh speed data movement interconnect specialist Inphi Corp has announced it is sampling its new Spica™ 800G 7 nm PAM4 DSP, along with its new Porrima™ Gen3 Single-Lambda PAM4 platform. The new DSP product is billed as the world’s first 800 Gbps or 8 x 100 Gbps PAM4 DSP to enable 800G optical transceiver modules […]
Applications and ResearchIn what has become a stream of such announcements, Infinera and Corning have announced delivering an 800Gbps single wavelength with Infinera’s sixth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE6) technology across 800 kilometres on Corning’s TXF® optical fibre. The success of Infinera and Corning’s 800G trial demonstrates the benefits of an industry leading coherent 800G solution with superior […]
Applications and ResearchHuawei has announced that it has completed two 800G coherent trials on live networks. One is with Turkcell and the other with China Mobile Zhejiang. The announcement follows Huawei’s launch of a 800G tunable optical module at the end of February 2020. The Turkcell trial took place between two data centres in Istanbul using Huawei’s […]