Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 15:57
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Networking
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A field trial involving the first transmission of real traffic across a 100Gbps standards-based optical fibre has been successful.
A 1520km portion of Verizon's network in the north Dallas (US) area has successfully carried real traffic at 100Gbps.
Products used in the trial included the Juniper T1600 Core Router, the NEC SpectralWave DWDM system, and 100G CFP optical transceiver modules from Finisar.
"With IP traffic on the Verizon network growing year over year, 100G is critical to continuing to satisfy customers' demands, which drive the capacity requirements of our core network," said Mark Wegleitner, senior vice president of technology at Verizon.
"Verizon has already deployed 100G on a segment of our European network, and trials such as this allow us to refine relevant technologies and push 100G closer to widespread deployment," he added.
The European deployment Wegleitner referenced was between Paris and Frankfurt (893km), and went live in December 2009. It used Nortel hardware.
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