Friday
Mar142014
Infinera introduces flexible grid 500G super-channel ROADM
Friday, March 14, 2014 at 9:45AM Infinera has unveiled a flexible grid, reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) to complement its DTN-X optical networking platform.
An example showing the impact of a 500G super-channel ROADM node. Source: Infinera
"The FlexROADM will open up the Tier-1 operators in a way Infinera has not been able to do before," says Dana Cooperson, vice president, network infrastructure at market research firm, Ovum. "The DTN-X was necessary but not sufficient; the ROADM is the last piece."
