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Etisalat and Huawei in first compact OXC trial

By John Williamson

Service provider Etisalat has worked with Huawei to complete the first trial of compact all-optical cross-connect (OXC) for the transport industry. The OXC in question – the Huawei OptiXtrans OSN 9800 P32C – is a large-capacity OXC device that can be used in the backbone or aggregation layer. Huawei reckons it meets the requirements for […]

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Nokia sets optical transmission capacity record

By Peter Dykes

Nokia has set a capacity record during the world’s first field trial of single-carrier terabit-per-second data transmission on a deployed fibre network. The trial successfully transmitted a record 50.8 terabits per second using multiple wavelengths, each with a net information rate of 1.3 terabits per second, over a 93-km fibre route of Etisalat’s wavelength division […]

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The beginning of a new year may bring with it resolutions to live a healthier lifestyle, to spend more time with family or to take up a new hobby. For our industry, the resolution may be that 2020 is the year that 400G moves out of the lab and into mass production!

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