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| Optical Transport: 40G/100G Interest Shifts Into Overdrive |
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Telecom carriers around the world are reviewing the capabilities of their networks to cope with continually rising demand for bandwidth. This demand is driven by consumer services and applications such as HD video to end devices, mobile data, and continuing trends among businesses to move more data online and to make more use of remote resources, for instance through cloud computing and hosted applications.
In the enterprise services space, faster Ethernet standards are on the way in 2010, and already some router-to-router interconnections require bandwidth far in excess of the 10 Gbit/s that is the most commonly deployed per-channel capacity for optical transport systems.
All these trends are driving moves to higher-capacity optical networks, achieved either by combining 10G wavelengths, or by using 40G or even 100G wavelengths. Dozens of operators around the world have already deployed 40G technology, and several are trialing 100G systems.
The pressures of bandwidth demand will not go away, and there is a growing market for optical transport that squeezes greater capacity out of existing fiber infrastructure. Many operators would move to 100G systems immediately, bypassing 40G transport, if solutions were commercially available that could run over existing fiber, and if capacity on the 100G channels could be efficiently filled through grooming and multiplexing.
The vendors with the broadest portfolios of transport, switching, and routing equipment will push hard over the next year for the integration of IP and optical networking: If they find operators receptive to their arguments about more efficient traffic handling and management – and this should not be taken for granted – then specialist optical transport vendors without an IP pedigree will likely find it harder to compete.
Optical Transport: 40G/100G Interest Shifts Into Overdrive analyzes current and projected deployment of optical transport technologies by network operators, focusing on the anticipated surge in demand for 40G and 100G systems. The report examines the market dynamics that are driving demand for high-speed transport and explores the technologies that provide compatibility with installed fiber infrastructure in different parts of the network. It also sets out the likely timetables for deployment of 40G and 100G systems, analyzes the impact of emerging standards on market development, and evaluates moves to integrate IP and optical networks more closely. The report profiles 13 leading vendors of 40G and 100G optical transport systems, comparing their approaches from technical and market-focus perspectives.
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 Table of Contents (lri0310toc.pdf) |
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| Vendors are keen to argue the merits of their chosen modulation scheme, or schemes, for high-speed transport. It is beyond the scope of this report to make technical performance comparisons between them, but it is worth noting that innovation in modulation continues, particularly among component suppliers. The following excerpt summarizes modulation schemes offered for 40G and 100G systems by the vendors profiled in this report. |
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 Suppliers profiled in this report include: ADVA Optical Networking (Frankfurt: ADV); Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU); Ciena Corp. (Nasdaq: CIEN); Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO); ECI Telecom Ltd.; Ekinops SAS; Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC); Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.; Infinera Corp. (Nasdaq: INFN); NEC Corp. (Pink Sheets: NIPNF); Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Siemens AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt: SIE); Nortel Networks Corp. (Pink Sheets: NRTLQ); and Tellabs Inc. (Nasdaq: TLAB). |
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| MARCH 2010 |
 40G & 100G Deployments Picking Up Speed |
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| MARCH 2010 |
| Packet-Optical |
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| APRIL 2010 |
| Scaling of IPTV |
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| MAY 2010 |
| What New Telecom Entrants Are Up To |
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