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If It’s a 400G World, Transport Architecture Is in for a Change
April 4, 2020
This year is ushering in a change in the capacity of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platforms going into the network. ...
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Optical/DCI
In this service we provide ongoing analysis of developments in global markets for optical transport products in the long-haul DWDM, metro C|DWDM, and integrated packet optical transport; for legacy optical transport products in the SONET/SDN, MSPP, and digital cross-connect categories; and analysis ...
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PAM-4 or Coherent DWDM for DCI?
Jan. 28, 2020
At the March 2016 OFC conference, Inphi announced its delivery of a 100G, QSFP28, PAM-4, pluggable transceiver with 80km reach. PAM technology has been utilized for 100G transmissions (Inphi is a specialist in this area) before but at much shorter distances. Pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) is an an ...
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SDN & Multi-layer Transport SDN: Notes from Layer123 SDN OpenFlow World Congress
Jan. 28, 2020
This year’s Layer123 SDN OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany, was quite an expanded event from last year with over more than 1,500 people registering. There was a great mix of presentations from equipment suppliers, services providers and open source organizations at the event. SDN and ...
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New Entrants into the DCI Small Form Factor Market
Jan. 28, 2020
Two equipment titans Coriant and Alcatel-Lucent entered the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) small form factor market with targeted packet optical networking products. ...
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Infinera Puts Agility into Pacnet's Optical Transport Services with Its Open Transport Switch
Jan. 28, 2020
Infinera’s announcement yesterday that Pacnet has deployed its Open Transport Switch (OTS) embedded intelligence layer into its Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN) for trans-Pacific and intra-Asian optical network services brings an innovative design into production in the fast-moving market for dynamicall ...
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Sea of Change Ahead for the Optical Market
Jan. 28, 2020
The financial and analyst community tend to roll up equipment vendors’ revenues for product lines into a single high-order number to gauge market size and simplify the reporting and analysis. GAAP reinforces this mindset as the majority of public companies that are equipment and/or software supplier ...