Flexible Ethernet, or FlexE, originated to solve challenges and inefficiencies in today’s packet and transport networks by providing flexibility and higher capacity, while also enabling the optimal usage of new technologies such as highly flexible coherent optical transmission. Read more »
5G – one of the most important topics in the industry – will create an ecosystem for information and communications technologies. Unlike previous 2G, 3G, and 4G networking, 5G upgrades mobile communications technologies and also provides a platform Read more »
During the “telecom bubble” era of the late 1990s early 2000s, there were high hopes and speculation that all-optical networks would quickly become prevalent. Many envisioned a relatively simple backbone networks where client signals were Read more »
The Optical Transport Network (OTN) defined in ITU-T G.709 is the default protocol that underpins today’s DWDM packet optical transport networks. Two generations of OTN have already been widely deployed: OTN1.0, which was based on 10G WDM transport; and OTN2.0, which enabled the transition Read more »
The security of communication lines is a top priority of service providers and data center operators. DIGI OTN processors can enable secured and low-latency WDM transport with the industry’s most flexible and comprehensive OTN payload encryption at wire-speed for protocol-agnostic datacenter interconnect Read more »
Transponders and muxponders are important elements in an optical transport network. Transponders are used to enable point-to-point connections over long distances when the client rate matches the optical wavelength. In cases where the client rates Read more »
100G WDM ports in metro networks are growing rapidly, with a 45% CAGR (according to the 2016 IHS Technology Report on 100G+ Coherent Optical Equipment Ports Market Report). As many of the service rates are 10G and below, this drives a need for OTN switching Read more »
An OTN-switched network core, as shown in the following illustration, offers significant advantages to network operators with multiple customers and service types. It allows traffic to be groomed Read more »
With over 50 years of experience in the optical networking business, ECI has more than 250 active customers worldwide, operating in more than 70 countries across 5 continents. ECI’s customers include leading Research and Education Networks, critical Utility Networks, and some of the world’s largest Read more »
ECI and Microsemi have partnered to enable the economics required for massdeployment of 100G, with ECI leveraging Microsemi’s DIGI OTN processors for its Read more »
Hey, I’m Scott Wakelin with Microsemi. I was recently at OFC 2018 and would like to introduce you to our latest generation OTN processor, DIGI-G5. This 5th generation OTN processor is based on our award-winning Read more »