Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Zayo have announced the successful completion of a live field trial of Nokia’s sixth-generation optics (PSE-6s), demonstrating a North American transmission record of 800Gb/s over a single wavelength from Los Angeles (LA) to El Paso on a 1160 mile link. The companies also achieved a 1 Tb/s transmission on Zayo’s LA to Phoenix route over 623 miles, also using the Nokia PSE-6s.
The trial used Nokia’s PSE-6s implemented in the 1830 PSI-M compact modular transport platform equipped with production-ready DMAT6 line cards. Using the latest 6th generation technology, the 800Gb/s transmission represents a tripling in reach over current 7nm solutions and sets a new North American distance record over a live network. Nokia claims the 1Tb/s transmission between LA and Phoenix over 150 GHz WDM channels shows the ability to reach even higher capacity per wavelength on high-traffic routes.
“As a communications infrastructure leader, Zayo remains at the forefront of network connectivity,” Aaron Werley, Vice President of Technology at Zayo, said. “Nokia’s PSE-6s coherent technology allows Zayo to offer ever-increasing commercial Wavelength speeds, including enabling our industry-first Waves on Demand offering, so when customers demand innovative, higher-bandwidth solutions, the capacity is there for them.”
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