Nortel demonstreert 80Gbit/sec fiber netwerk

Nortel Networks heeft op de Telecom99 beurs in Geneve een netwerk technologie gedemonstreert waarmee het 80Gbit/sec over een enkele golflengte weet te pompen. Da's een leuk draadje om een backbone van te breien:

Nortel showed 80-Gbit transmission over 480 km of dispersion-managed fiber manufactured by Corning, in a single span without regeneration. Anil Khatod, president of the optical Internet division at Nortel, said that in networks using carriers' existing single-mode fiber, transmission speeds of up to 40 Gbits/s per channel were possible. In new installations using dispersion-managed fiber, a full 80 Gbits/s per channel could be realized.

[...] Nortel simultaneously is expanding its optical packet-switching systems, supporting Internet Protocol over optical channels, with switching fabrics that start at 19.2 Tbits/s, scaling to hundreds of terabits. Nortel president John Roth said that more than 2,500 backbone IP routers could be reliably linked to the OpTera backbones as the new generation of fiber amps is rolled out.

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