Infinera goes multi-terabit with its latest photonic IC

In his new book, The Great Acceleration, Robert Colvile discusses how things we do are speeding up.

In 1845 it took U.S. President James Polk six months to send a message to California. Just 15 years later Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address could travel the same distance in under eight days, using the Pony Express. But the use of ponies for transcontinental communications was shortlived once the electrical telegraph took hold. [1]

The relentless progress in information transfer, enabled by chip advances and Moore's law, is taken largely for granted. Less noticed is the progress being made in integrated photonic chips, most notably by Infinera.    

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Infinera speeds up network restoration

• Claimed to be the only hardware implementation of the Shared Mesh Protection protocol
• Provides network-wide protection against multiple network failures
• The chip is already within the DTN-X system; protocol will be activated this year

Pravin Mahajan, Infinera

Infinera has developed a chip to speed up network restoration following faults.

The chip implements the Shared Mesh Protection (SMP) protocol being developed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Infinera believes it is the only vendor with hardware acceleration of the protocol.

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