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Fujitsu announces modular blade families for 1FINITY platform


Fujitsu has announced the Transport, Lambda, Switch, and Access blades for its Fujitsu 1FINITY platform, which was unveiled last summer. The 1FINITY platform is a ‘revolutionary’ packet- optical networking system incorporating a fully disaggregated architecture that supports the industry’s move towards virtualisation and software-defined networking (SDN). ‘These individual 1RU blades are crucial components of this first-ever completely disaggregated architecture, and they represent significant differentiators that allow network operators to truly drive change in their communications networks — increasing innovation velocity, reducing operating costs, and growing revenue streams,’ the company said. The modular, compact 1RU blades provide low initial investment, efficient scalability, and a flexible, pay-as-you-grow approach. The blades can operate independently or in combination with other optical platforms from Fujitsu and third parties. They are not limited by integration with other technologies — or with shelf constraints such as backplane performance, space, thermal considerations, power, and inputs/outputs. Blades in the 1FINITY Transport family deliver


high-capacity transport for metro, regional, and long-haul applications. The T100 blade is a transponder purpose-built for metro data centre interconnect (DCI), providing 1.6Tb/s of bidirectional capacity and power consumption of less than 0.8W per Gb/s. The T200 blade is a feature-rich muxponder that uses coherent transmission to add beyond 100G capabilities to transport networks and enable long-haul DCI. The T300 blade is a flexible, high-density muxponder for metro and long-haul transport, supporting 10G, 40G, and 100G client rates. The initial release in the 1FINITY Switch family is the S100 blade, a high-density Ethernet switch with white box support. The S100 is designed for networks that require 10 GbE to 100 GbE aggregation of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 services, and it provides 1.2Tb/s bidirectional switching capacity. The 1FINITY Lambda family is a modular ROADM platform that can be used to build multi-degree network nodes with flexible-grid operation and super-channel support. A small contentionless, directionless (CD) ROADM configuration supporting up to four degrees and 128 clients can be implemented using a twin 1×9 WSS ROADM-on-a-blade (L100 blade) and a dual 4×16 splitter-coupler (L110 blade). www.fujitsu.com


Transition Networks releases 40G QSFP+ optical transceivers


The Transition Networks TN-QSFP-40G-xx series are designed to install in any QSFP+ port, to create 40GBase-X interfaces to the network through the QSFP+ connector. The hot-swappable transceivers enable bi- directional, serial optical data communication such as 40 Gigabit Ethernet, meaning network managers can upgrade their enterprise networks cost-effectively to accommodate newer, more data-intensive services. The TN-QSFP-40G-xx series features four channels with up to 11.1Gb/s per channel, a maximum link length of 400m on OM4 multimode fibre or 30km over singlemode fibre. The transceiver is and plugs into a QSFP+ port. The series supports SFF-8436 digital diagnostic monitoring interface (DMI), and is compatible with Cisco switches and routers. Applications of the TN-QSFP-40G-xx series include 40GBase-X Ethernet, breakout to 10GBase-X Ethernet, data centre aggregation and backplane applications, and datacom/ telecom switch and router connections. www.transition.com


Viewpoint | Educational Resources


Read the latest white papers and online articles from our library of free vendor-supplied technical content*


8 New Applications for WDM Between Data Centers


By MRV


New applications for Data Center Interconnect (DCI) using DWDM optical transport are described: including disaster recovery, ultra-high bandwidth interconnect, multiprotocol interconnect, peering POP offload, low latency and 100G access.


Optical Layer Pluggables: The End of Hard Choices in the Metro?


By Coriant


This white paper looks at a new approach to building the metro optical layer based on miniaturizing optical layer functions into compact pluggables.


Increasing Capacity of Existing Transport Networks; Now is Time to Look for Newer Solutions


By Ekinops


With the price of 100G optics continuing to drop every six months, now is the time to look to the market for newer generation transponders and muxponders.


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