In March 2008, Nortel (acquired by Ciena) announced the industry’s first optical platform that can deliver both 40G and 100G network capacity, enabling four times the network throughput immediately while providing the foundation to simply and affordably increase capacity tenfold as required. This innovative capability equips carriers to keep pace with dramatically increasing demand from bandwidth-sapping applications like IPTV, Internet video, HD programming and mobile video phones.
Nortel's 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine is a revolutionary technology platform that enables both 40G and 100G transmission with the same ease and simplicity of today's 10G networks. Nortel's technology enhancements allow fiber-optic cables, thinner than a human hair, to carry vast amounts of information globally. The current state-of-the-art networking speed is 10G (Gigabits per second), which can support the bandwidth of 1000 HDTV channels simultaneously. By increasing that capacity to 40G, carriers can transmit four times the traffic over the same link and 10 times the traffic when evolving to 100G.
The foundation of the solution lies in Nortel's breakthrough on developing technology that easily upgrades existing 10G networks to a 40G solution through simple plug-and-play technology components. Other solutions on the market that promise to provide 40G require new fiber optic cables to be buried across the carriers' service area. Among the key firsts of this solution include Dual Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying with coherent detection that allows 40G operation over a 10G network as well as advanced digital signal processing that removes all compensation requirements from the network, along with their associated capital and operational expenditures. Other approaches require costly equipment that can carry the information light signals less than half the distance of the Nortel equipment.
The solution is built on the Optical Multiservice Edge 6500, which enables the migration to a more agile, adaptive, all-optical network.
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