Coherent Pluggable Optics: A 2023 Heavy Reading Survey

Heavy Reading launched its first Coherent Optics Market Leadership Program in 2021 to investigate the opportunities and challenges in coherent optics. Year 3 of the coherent optics project focuses specifically on the future of coherent pluggables and includes all aspects of network systems and architectures built around coherent pluggable optics, including IPoDWDM.

This white paper is based on Heavy Reading’s 2023 results. It provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of coherent optical transmission and covers the following topics: