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Huawei, Proximus Demo 1Tb/sec Optical Network Transmission

Posted by timothy on from the speed-of-light dept.

Amanda Parker writes: Proximus and Huawei have demonstrated speeds of 1 Terabit per second (Tbps) in an optical trial. The speed, which equates to the transmission of 33 HD films in a second, is the first outcome of the partnership between the two companies which was formed in January. The trial was conducted over a 1,040 kilometre fibre link using an advanced 'Flexgrid' infrastructure with Huawei's Optical Switch Node OSN 9800 platform.

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  1. Re:Define hd... by Dagger2 · · Score: 2

    ~3.8 GB, apparently.

  2. 1tbps is easy by Shatrat · · Score: 4, Informative

    We've been turning up 1tbps optical transport for years, this is easy. You can do this with commodity parts. What they've probably done, which isn't in the summary or TFA, is turn up a single 1tbps super channel over a flexible grid ROADM. That's currently in the development stage with a lot of vendors, such as Alcatel, Ciena, Infinera, Cisco and more. That would allow the entire ROADM system to scale up the N-Terabits, where N is going to depend on how many superchannels can be crammed into the C-band. Probably on the order of 50-100 terabits per second fully loaded.

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    1. Re:1tbps is easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      I was thinking the same thing, even passive DWDM systems and 100G optics should be able to do 4Tbps over 40 channels - 8Tbps over 80 channels if you've got 50Ghz spaced optics. The passive systems aren't even that expensive, although the frequency-specific optics on each side add up quickly. ROADM systems are nice because you can drop off specific channels and manage amplification and such automatically. In the telecom industry we've been doing this for many years with 10G and OC48/192 links since its cheaper than plowing in new fiber, 40G and 100G are starting to show up now too.
      Here's the kind of stuff we're talking about:
      http://telecomengineering.com/product_type/dwdm-multiplexers/

  3. Re:Fuck that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    People who don't want their network backdoored by the US? Have you missed some info lately?

  4. Re: What's it really mean? by TheMeuge · · Score: 2

    Well... You have to have a good infrastructure for continuous audio and video surveillance of everyone.

  5. Re:Define hd... by sexconker · · Score: 2

    1 Tbps in the networking world means 1,000,000,000,000 bits per second because they never got the hang of counting bits instead of measuring baud rate.
    1,000,000,000,000 bits / 33 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 8 = 3.5277370250586307410037878... GB per film.

  6. Re:What's it really mean? by Ormy · · Score: 2

    This helps, what, carriers and trunk lines? (Not that it's a bad thing)

    Yes, exactly that, of which there are many you personally depend on to post your condescendingly uneducated contributions to /. And many more free of your tripe