Ciena: Changing bandwidth on the fly

Ciena has announced its latest coherent chipset that will be the foundation for its future optical transmission offerings. The chipset, dubbed WaveLogic 3, will extend the performance of its 100 Gigabit links while introducing transmission flexibility that will trade capacity with reach.

Feature: Beyond 100 Gigabit - Part 1

"We are going to be deployed, [with WaveLogic 3] running live traffic in many customers’ networks by the end of the year"

Michael Adams, Ciena

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The great data rate-reach-capacity tradeoff

Source: Gazettabyte

Optical transmission technology is starting to bump into fundamental limits, resulting in a three-way tradeoff between data rate, reach and channel bandwidth.

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