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 […]
Technologies and ProductsIntegrates both OTDR and OSA functionality for monitoring optical infrastructure. PacketLight Networks, a developer of DWDM and optical fibre networking solutions, has introduced the PL-1000D fibre optic diagnostic solution, which is intended to consistently monitor signal quality and any network faults in a single device. Delivering non-intrusive network visibility, the PL-1000D offers carriers, dark fibre […]
Technologies and ProductsCanada-based ATX networks has launched the first product in its GigaWave digital optical gateway platform at ANGACOM. Designed to provide cable operators with a powerful, futureproof and protocol-agnostic solution that enables them to expand the capacity of fibre access links between headends/hubs and outside plant facilities, the Digital Link Extender 40 (DLX40) enables MSOs to […]
Technical FeaturesOne of the major problems currently facing network operators is how to get more bandwidth from existing fibre. Simply adding more fibre is costly, energy-hungry and time-consuming, so operators are looking to optical systems manufacturers such as II-VI to come up with ever-more efficient designs, writes Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi and Sara Gabba. Network convergence is […]
News and BusinessCoriant has won a contract from ESpanix, the largest and oldest Spanish neutral internet exchange, to supply its Groove G30 network disaggregation platform as the foundation for a high-speed optical backbone network connecting the exchange’s major data center sites across Madrid. Coriant says the solution will enable ESpanix to cost-efficiently deliver 100G interconnect services, while […]
Applications and ResearchPT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk (Telkom) has deployed Coriant’s coherent optical transport and universal switching technology as part of a nationwide upgrade to its fibre-based backbone network. The network modernisation initiative is designed to improve the performance and increase the capacity of Telkom’s terrestrial and subsea optical transport infrastructure to meet growing demand for high-bandwidth mobile […]
Applications and ResearcheuNetworks, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure services in Europe, has announced the expansion of its long-haul dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network to Stockholm. The company says it is delivering “a truly diverse solution with two unique paths running from Northern Germany to Stockholm”. The company’s Eastern route runs via Copenhagen and its Western route […]