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 […]