Ciena launches the 8700 metro Ethernet-over-WDM platform

• The 8700 Packetwave is an Ethernet-over-DWDM platform 
• The 8700 is claimed to deliver double the Ethernet density while halving the power consumption and space required.

Source: Ciena

Ciena has launched the 8700 Packetwave platform that combines high-capacity Ethernet switching with 100 Gigabit coherent optical transmission.

The platform is designed to cater for the significant growth in metro traffic, estimated at between 30 and 50 percent each year, and the ongoing shift from legacy to Ethernet services.

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Webinar: MultiPhy on the 100G Direct Detect market

Gazettabyte has hosted a webinar with Israeli semiconductor firm MultiPhy. Entitled The Emerging 100 Gigabit Metro & Datacenter Connectivity Opportunity, the webinar includes:

• An Ovum market forecast for 100 Gigabit Direct Detect to 2015
• The changes in the network creating demand for 100 Gigabit Direct Detect optical transport
• Emerging operator and vendor backing for the technology
• MultiPhy’s IC technology and its 100 Gigabit Direct Detect solution
• The performance metrics of 100 Gigabit Direct Detect

"An internet giant is now firmly committed to an 80km pluggable solution. And if it is 80km and pluggable we know it is not coherent"

Neal Neslusan, MultiPhy

Presenting the webinar for MultiPhy is Neal Neslusan, vice president of sales and marketing. 

To view, please register by clicking here. You will then receive an email with a link to the 100 Gigabit webinar.

Further reading: 

MultiPhy eyes 40 and 100 Gigabit direct detect and coherent

Fujitsu Labs adds processing to boost optical reach

Fujitsu Labs has developed a compensation technique that tackles non-linear effects in a coherent receiver-based optical transmission system. The technique promises to boost the reach of 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) and future higher speed systems.

“That is one of the virtues of the technology; it is not dependent on the modulation format or the bit rate”

Takeshi Hoshida, Fujitsu Labs

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ASICs and digital signal processing heat up the optical marketplace

Guest blog on Lightwave magazine, click here

Infinera PICs 100Gbps coherent

What is being announced?

Infinera is expediting its product plans, basing its optical transmission roadmap on coherent detection.

The company plans to launch a 100Gbps coherent transmission system in 2012. The design will be based on a pair of 5x100Gbps ultra-long-haul photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips to enable its systems to deliver 8 terabits-per-second (Tbps) over a fibre.

“This change in roadmap is because of the successful development of our 100G coherent ASIC programme, and we have integrated five 100Gbps coherent channels onto one card.”

Drew Perkins, Infinera

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