Huawei Deploys 40G in Russia

MOSCOW -- Huawei Technologies ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, announced that it has successfully deployed the industry¡¯s longest 40G commercial transport network for TransTeleCom£¨TTC£©, a top three fixed telecom carrier in Russia. The 1,141 km network, connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, requires no electric regeneration.

The solution uses Huawei¡¯s patented SuperWDM technologies to achieve ultra-long haul transmission without electrical regeneration at distances of over 1,500km. Huawei¡¯s C-band extension patent technology can help operators increase their fiber transmission bandwidth by an extra 20%, which makes Huawei the only vendor with a transmission capacity of 3.84T ¨C the largest in the industry.

Furthermore£¬Huawei¡¯s 40G transport solution can be upgraded from 10G to 40G without any platform replacement, providing new services 75% faster than previously possible.

¡°Even today telecom operators are faced with the problem of having insufficient capacity on their backbone transport networks,¡± said Evgeniy Zhukov, head of optical network group of Huawei products and solutions department. ¡°Presently the most viable solution is the 40G transfer technologies which can increase the capacity and efficiency of existing DWDM£¨Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing£© systems. Huawei is the first company in Russia to demonstrate the operability of 40G technologies in real networks.¡±

¡°By 2009 all TransTeleCom¡¯s DWDM backbones will be updated to 40G transfer per wavelength. It is a natural stage of backbone development, which is necessary to satisfy the constantly growing demand for bandwidth,¡± said Andrei Pavlov, senior vice-president, head of TTC technical development department. ¡°Thanks to Huawei¡¯s advanced DWDM equipment, 40G channels can be activated quickly without restructuring the existing network.¡±

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