IP Transit – Everything Old is New Again! New technologies are always hot topics for media and analysts alike. As we, and the industry, enjoy our exciting roller-coaster ride up and down on Gartner’s parabolic hype-cycle curve for various new technologies, it is important not to lose sight of our underlying foundations. One of these…
Pluggable Amplifiers for DCI Line-Systems On a related topic and using the same rationale, we are working with industry partners on standardizing a simple and DCI pluggable point-to-point line-system, with the EDFAs integrated into QSFP. This would be optimized for around 100 km and 8-16 channels of 400G-ZR wavelengths, for which most existing solutions are…
DWDM Pluggable vs Traditional Transponder/ Muxponder IP over DWDM has been around for more than a decade. As a concept, it revolves around placing coherent pluggable optics directly into routers. The value propositions of collapsing an entire layer includes the elimination of back-to-back grey optics, lower power consumption and unification of monitoring, control planes and…
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