Huawei Marine successfully completed 100G WACS system-wide expansion and opened business

Huawei Marine today announced that the recently completed 14,530 kilometers of system-wide expansion project 100G - West Africa Submarine Cable System (WACS) has successfully completed commissioning and opened lines of business.

WACS by the 18 operators to invest in the league, which is connected along the west coast of Africa from South Africa, the United Kingdom, with a total length of 14,530 kilometers, in 2012 and put into use, the use of 10Gbit/s design, the initial capacity of 5.12Tbit/s. Prior to the expansion of the use of Huawei's innovative 3rd generation soft-decision forward error correction techniques and a bit interleaving technique successfully transfer rate up to 100Gbit/s; at the same time to protect the customer's original investment, the use of the existing network 10G and 100G wavelength wavelength long distance transport were mixed. After upgrading WACS system capacity reached early 14.5Tbit/s, test results and test systems well to achieve the desired objectives.

MACOM acquisition of Japanese assembly plant FiBest become a full supplier of high-speed optical module

Communications chip maker M/A-Com has announced a price of $ 60 million acquisition of a Japanese TOSA/ROSA manufacturers FiBest, the purchase price is 2.4 times FiBest sales. FiBest products are mainly based on the EML 10Gbps TOSA and APD, ROSA. M/A-Com even claimed FiBest is 1000Gbps TOSA/ROSA leader in the field. This acquisition will significantly expand MACOM rate in more than 100G optical components and leading strength and can further enhance MACOM strength in the Japanese market. FiBest 50% of sales come from Japan.

MACON company CEO John Croteau said the acquisition of FiBest help MACOM get high-speed packaging capabilities enhance the MACOM in the field of optical devices competitive, which will help MACOM provide more valuable solutions for optical module customers. Performance of the optical components is critical data center with 100G optical module energy consumption and cost targets. FiBest product line will greatly enhance MACOM data center in 100G optical device market strength. 2017 will be the data center market with 100G optical device a turning year.

MACOM 2011 M & A chip optical module manufacturers Mindspeed, 2014 M & A InP optical chips manufacturers BinOptics. This acquisition marks a MACOM becoming a supplier of optical modules on the core technology further. They already have all the core elements of high-speed optical module.

MACOM this acquisition is expected to be completed in 2016 before the New Year.

Ekinops help Russia ER-Telecom to deploy 100G wavelengths

France Ekinops optical transport equipment manufacturers in Russia on Friday announced three Internet and pay-TV provider ER-Telecom will deploy the 100G DWWM Ekinops equipment for expansion in the country.
 
ER-Telecom's services throughout 56 cities in eastern and southern Russia, is now facing growing traffic demand from customers. Due to set up their own costly DWDM network, ER-Telecom began to hire third-party network of wavelength and using Eknipos equipment for transmission. Such an approach can help ER-Telecom quickly and economically increase the capacity.

ER-Telecom said they Tumen from Moscow in the east to the west, carried out extensive testing of 100G architecture, Ekinops equipment is the best choice. They are expected to complete the deployment of the equipment within two weeks.

Ekinops company CTO Francois Xavier Ollivier said that many service providers are reluctant to use outside of the wavelength plan, fearing operability and interoperability. Over the past eight years, Ekinops has accumulated a lot of experience outside the wavelength deployment that can support every DWDM vendor. Ekinops to ER-Telecom successfully demonstrated the technology and the ability to solve this problem.

Ekinops 360 system provides support through a wavelength outside miniaturized equipment, support 10*10 a muxponder and 100G Transponder within 1RU size.

2016 100G technology in the network equipment market will be a breakthrough year

IHS today announced network ports: 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, 100G report, the corresponding statistics for each port technology and the growth rate of speed.

"Deploying more than 1G network ports continue unabated, whether business or service provider. In general, the higher the port speed, the higher the growth rate, which means 40G and 100G are key growth areas of the market. However, in 2014, as China's massive increase in GPON OLT expenditure, as well as North America gigabit FTTH deployments, 2.5G products increased the most. "Matthias Machowinski IHS enterprise networks and video research director said. "Looking ahead, we expect 40G revenue began to fall in 2017, the demand for enterprise and data center move to a new release based QSFP 100G technology."

For operators of transmission networks, IHS research director believes that 2016 was a breakthrough year for 100G coherent technology, such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon to massive ultra-large-scale data center launched 100G Ethernet switching technology.

IHS expects: 1G / 2.5G / 10G / 40G / 100G port shipments in 2015 will be over 700 million, amounting to $ 45 billion, compared to 2014, 100G port shipments more than doubled, to 163,000 ports .

IHS predicted five years from 2014-2019, the global income 100G ports will be 137 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) growth.

ZTE help Indian operator Reliance to build 100G metro optical networks

Recently, ZTE announced with India Reliance Communications (hereinafter referred to as "Reliance") signed a 100G OTN optical transport network orders. Over the next three years, ZTE will provide two cities in Pune and Hyderabad 100G optical transmission network design, site survey, installation, commissioning, maintenance and other services. ZXONE Series devices meet the Reliance offer comprehensive multi-service access and high integration requirements. Low TCO is a major factor in the ZTE she won this order.

Reliance in the Indian market share of 14.35%, is India's top four operators. But with mobile Internet access LTE era, the current network of SDH networks are increasingly unable to carry data traffic surge in demand. ZTE 100G OTN solutions to help Reliance rapidly into the era of 100G metro transport in Pune and Hyderabad two cities, greatly ease the pressure LTE network bearer.

It is reported that ZTE has the industry-leading OTN development platform, its high performance 100G OTN products, easy maintenance, low cost and other characteristics of the most Reliance recognized. ZTE 100G OTN has a high level of integration, from E1 / T1 to 100GE any access rate, client port supports smooth upgrade path 4-22, coarse dense wave unity; at the same time, the efficient performance of the product, to achieve port adaptive, DSS cross , L2 switching aggregation, CPRI transmission and other functions; in addition, OTN package supports the full overhead light layer / dielectric layer control, unified network management easy fault location and service configuration, effectively increasing the efficiency of operation and maintenance.

AOI publish data center with 100G optical engine

Analog and digital optical components supplier AOI (Applied Optoelectronics) has introduced 100Gbps optical engine for data center use. The product is built four laser, detector arrays, optical arrays and associated drive electronics for parallel 100Gbps optical modules and other design PSM4 QSFP28.

The main features of the product include:

• AOI Texas MBE Fab homemade laser chip

• Highly reliable non-seal design to improve the cost-effective

• Built-in laser driver and TIA chip simplifies design

• Patented thermal design

• Provide MSA compatible and pigtail packages

AOI indicates that the product has begun to provide samples, the amount of the year is expected to produce. According Lightcounting forecasts, bulk sales 100G QSFP28 module will appear in the second half of next year.

ROADM market entered a rapid growth period

According to well-known market research firm IHS Infonetics latest report shows that in the optical transmission market, in addition to still maintain a rapid growth outside 100G, ROADM market has become another one star. 2015 second quarter, ROADM market income ratio in the entire WDM market revenue up 45%. The report predicts that, ROADM market in 2015 revenue will grow 12% in 2104, and 2019, the market's compound annual growth rate as high as 12%, which greatly exceeds the entire WDM market compound annual growth rate of 9%, to become the next four years, WDM segment of the market the fastest growing segment.

Figure: Infonetics report ROADM market entered a rapid growth period

As can be seen from the chart IHS Infonetics report, in fact, starting in 2011, ROADM market performance had already started to speed, there's little need to explain that, 100G technology is also starting in 2011 at a global scale commercial. It is a coincidence?

Let's take a look at the status quo of large cities in China, the road to development, and perhaps give us some enlightenment. In recent years, some large cities continue to build and expand roads, often encounter the problem of the transformation of urban interchange. Some design and construction of transportation hub earlier, in the rapid development of today's urban road traffic has become the bottleneck. Similarly, the development of optical networks is also facing a similar situation. With 2011 global begin large-scale commercial 100G coherent optical transmission technology, many operators have seen the super-high-speed optical transmission technology challenge existing optical network architecture, and embarked on a strategy to reshape the optical network architecture project. Therefore, it is not a coincidence, but the optical network development inevitable trend.

Technology and market jointly call new networking technology of optical network

With the rise of Internet penetration to various industries in various fields, as well as cloud computing, big data, networking and other technology applications, data traffic is continuing to grow rapidly. According to IHS Infonetics analytical report 100G module shipments increased from 2011 in 2000 to 2014 or so quickly over 120,000. 100G optical transmission system on a global scale is rapidly expanding. In recent years, the industry has set his sights on Super 100G technology. Alcatel-Lucent deployed the world's first commercial 400G optical transport network in 2013, its 200G wavelength-division-board programmable achieve volume shipments in 2014. According to market analysts predict that by around 2017, 400G will gradually begin large-scale commercial.

You can see from the above data, ultra-high-speed optical transmission technology is rapidly improving the transmission capacity of the fiber, which makes electrical cross-way network to OTN optical network node is facing great challenges. According to the development trend of optical networks, long-distance backbone and metro core network topology often will tend to grid, the dimensions of each node may reach 8-dimensional, or even more. In this case, if pure electric cross 100G OTN networking mode, which means that the capacity of each node will reach 8x8T = 64T. If you consider the way for future 400G OTN network, then the capacity will be close to 200T, which is currently on the market, the largest capacity OTN electrical cross-connect equipment is far unable to meet. Meanwhile, large-scale OTN electrical cross matrix bound to bring higher power requirements and cooling requirements, as well as the difficulty of network evolution challenges operators have realized in the actual deployment of the deployment faced.

Future-oriented development, technology and markets are calling the new Optical Networking technology.

400G commercial need ultra low loss optical and opto-electronic hybrid cross

August 31 to September 2, the 17th China International Optoelectronic Exposition was held in Shenzhen, in the "2015 optical communication networks and technology innovation and development" thematic clubs held on September 1, the China Mobile Research Institute Network Technology Research Institute deputy director Li Han published "400G technology development and application of" special reports operators.

The development of business-driven trunk bandwidth rapid growth, 2012-2014 CMNET traffic increased by more than 100 percent per year, is expected to increase by the end of 2017 but also 7-15 times; backbone transmission network traffic by 30% -50% annual growth rate in recent It could double in a year. Specifically, as of 2014, China Mobile provincial backbone bandwidth of more than 80T, 2015 years will add 200T, China Mobile is currently building the world's largest 100G transmission network, and started to introduce ASON function. 100G show its superiority in the opening time, cost, power consumption, etc., more CMNET lay the foundation for development.

Opto-electric hybrid cross will become the future direction

Currently 100G OTN electrical cross-networking into the mainstream, opto-electric hybrid crossover also become the future direction of development, the introduction of photovoltaic hybrid cross, enabling businesses in a light layer of transparent transmission, to reduce cost and power consumption. But opto-electric hybrid cross to get the application must resolve performance testing, automated planning and layer synergy between other issues, which is critical in OTN applications SDN.

DC became the focal point for future traffic, the traditional network architecture challenges. Lee Han said China Mobile will be in DC for the core network construction, should face DC design, enhance DC traffic to divert to something. In addition, the 100G Internet era, the policy transport network protection needs to re-examine the introduction of ASON protection and restoration.

Ultra-low loss optical fiber demand urgent

Currently there are dual-carrier 400G and four-carrier scheme in which dual-carrier PM-16QAM modulation scheme is the industry's mainstream. Lee Han frankly, compared to 100G long-distance transmission system (about 3000km) need 5-6dB OSNR margin, currently 400G in the current network transmission margin is about 600km 2-4dB, still can not meet the long-distance trunk transmission needs. 400G PM-16QAM based on the current level of technology and current network conditions, such as to achieve 1000km transmission, you need a lot of aspects of the room, fiber, amplifiers, equipment upgrade for change.

At present, in the optical fiber field, Ultra-low loss and large effective area + Ultra-low loss represents the future direction of the optical fiber. Lee Han pointed out that the cost of cable construction giant, once laying is difficult to change, are strategic investments, fiber optic conduit at least need to consider the needs of the next 20 years, which means that today the deployment of optical fiber is bound to have the ability to ultra-low loss.

But the chain is weak, less commercial products, consider the deployment of a small amount of ultra-low-loss optical fiber network, to verify the performance of the existing network, and promote the development of the industry chain.

Beijing Jie Wo bring 100G Series debut CIOE 2015

The 17th China Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE 2015) will be held next Monday the forthcoming opening in Shenzhen, then, 100G high-end optical module manufacturers professional - Beijing Jie Wo debut this year will be special equipment exhibition.

The exhibition, Beijing Jie Wo will be the exhibition site, demonstrating its 10G / 40G / 100G full range of optical modules, and optical communication applications subsystems, including:

- 100G CFP4 / CFP2 / CFP LR4 Transceivers
- 40G MSA 300Pin Transponder, 40G QSFP+ LR4&SR4
- 10G SFP+ Series Transceivers
- 100G SOA, EDFA, OEO, miniaturization WDM subsystems

Meanwhile, Beijing Jie Wo exhibition will also work with industry-leading instrument manufacturers, such as Japan Anristu etc. joint in the field of dynamic business presentation 100G BERT / portable scanner glass instrument and 100G CFP2 / CFP4 optical modules!

Gigalight release first-generation 100G QSFP28 family of products unveiled CIOE 2015

August 21, 2015, Gigalight officially released the first generation 100G QSFP28 family of products, including: 100G QSFP28-SR4 optical modules, 100G QSFP28 active optical cable (AOC) and 100G QSFP LOOPBACK module. Gigalight will demonstrate at the 17th CIOE China International Expo light scene.

The first generation of design performance 100GE QSFP28 SR4 meets IEEE 802.3bm 100GBASE SR4 and InfiniBand EDR protocol standard. The emitted light power range + -0.5dbm receiving OMA protocol parameters slightly lower standards, but to fully meet 75 meters OM3 fiber transmission and OM4 fiber 100 m transmission applications. The actual testing environment based on more stringent standard error rate testing (less than -15 times square), transmission OM4 fiber did not find any errors. The module uses Gigalight self-developed lens and light engine integrates four 25Gbps data channels and typically consumes 3.2W, support in addition to other projects outside TX power digital diagnostic functions. The module received a very good optical eye diagram and electrical eye performance.

The key parameters of the test See chart below: (TX optical eye diagram, RX electric eye, JETTER test chart, 100M OM4 test shots)

TX optical eye diagram:

RX electric eye chart:

JETTER test chart:

Two other family Gigalight products based QSFP28-SR4 module key technology developed 100G QSFP28 active optical cable (AOC) and 100G QSFP28 LOOPBACK module.

Explore 100G green and energy-saving

With the vigorous development to accelerate and the internet, cloud computing, mobile Internet and other new technologies of China's information construction of new business, the scale of the rapid expansion of the communications network, the communications industry showed rapid growth of energy consumption. Ministry of Industry, to the end of 2015, a communication network to achieve the total telecom business unit comprehensive energy consumption decreased by 10% compared with the end of 2010.

FiberHome positive response to the call of the national energy conservation Ministry of Industry, continued to increase environmental protection equipment research and development efforts, through green innovation solutions and business models to vigorously promote the development of green communications. FiberHome full range of products in terms of energy conservation has excellent performance, including OTN series of energy saving products of the indicators are in a leading position in the communications industry. FiberHome OTN products from "green plan", "green technology", "green operations and maintenance" three aspects to implement save energy and low-carbon environmental protection requirements to green innovative products and solutions to help operators build sustainable development Green communications network.

"Green Plan"

"Green Plan" means the OTN consider energy-saving measures and programs in the planning stage, consider green energy-saving products in the architecture design, software design, power density, intelligent control. In the plan to take into account the problem of resource consumption unit index, selection and technical evolution of materials make full use of resources and so on. Achieve overall analysis of various factors, performance trade-offs, power consumption, evolution and other programming in the planning.

"Green Plan" of the specific implementation is divided into six areas.

First, a reasonable choice OTN electrical cross capacity: Considering the contradictions and large cross-slot bandwidth and the capacity of small particles between business and node traffic to adapt. Demand and slot backplane bandwidth design tradeoffs business diversity.

Second, environmentally friendly materials and efficient software design: recyclable biodegradable materials, and improve resource utilization through the design and optimization software.

Third, the intelligent interface control and energy saving chip: intelligent interface control reduce power consumption, the use of energy-saving chip to improve resource utilization.

Fourth, the green evolution: Planning existing OTN platform upgrade function to ensure that existing investments in the future can be fully utilized. PEOTN OTN is the future direction of development, PEOTN centralized ODUk / packet / VC cross optical cross. OTN and packet services that fuse efficiently, reducing stacking; centralized cross, reduce power consumption; reduce the number of core router interface, reducing capacity requirements. CAPEX savings throughout the network.

Fifth, to enhance integration, the overall decrease in energy consumption: the flames of 10G client-side and line-side interface unit 10 provides an interface for the largest, 2.5G following client-side interface provides 16 single-disc biggest port, electrical cross sub-frame provides a maximum service slots 54 slots, enhance product integration can effectively reduce energy consumption.

Sixth, 100G green design: 100G optical disc industry's highest level of integration forwards, only two slots, 100G transceiver one OTU power (soft-decision FEC) is less than 160W, 100G platform FONST 5000 maximum power consumption of 6500W.

"Green technology"

"Green technology" is through the use of energy-saving mode, efficient and reasonable software design, intelligent service interface control, real-time environmental monitoring, smart fan design, more technology to achieve green energy. Specifically divided into four areas.

First, using IEEE 802.3az-2010 standard: the use of low-power chips, reduce circuit losses, significantly lower power chips and systems to reduce by 50% the physical layer, 70% to 80% of system level power consumption.

Second, the use of on-chip SRAM Stand-by mode: SRAM chip area accounted for more than 90%, so that the free SRAM enters Stand-by mode, the dynamic power consumption is almost zero.

Third, the use of advanced production technology: using 45nm production process, about 40 percent lower than 90nm power consumption of conventional ways to reduce power consumption.

Fourth, the core chip laser control: turns off when idle laser data transmission side, thereby reducing the overall power consumption of the device.

"Green operation and maintenance."

"Green operation and maintenance" refers to green OTN product operation and maintenance savings for carriers to deploy part of the energy consumption. It is divided into six areas.

First, the product of high reliability system design, flexible and diverse network protection and recovery tools, thus reducing manpower and resources invested.

Second, unified network management OTN M2000 system. Intuitive graphical interface, fast and efficient mode of operation, improve reporting statistics, fine-end fault and performance management, to help the network operate efficiently.

Third, the software modular design, optimized database, the function can be configured to turn off redundant functions, operational cost savings, end to end multi-service access platform.

Fourth, a platform for a variety of access methods, to avoid duplication of network resource consumption caused.

Fifth, the rational design of efficient and safe OTN network. Dedicated by the flames OTN planning staff OTNP software, can automatically calculate line attenuation, the control dispersion tolerance, the wavelength rational allocation, a key to configure the optical device.

Sixth, a reasonable choice of cross particle design. Using ODU2 scheduling, each site is a business channel, ease of maintenance and management, to give a one-time site deployment 8 GE business and meet long-term business needs.