Comments on: Fighting the capacity crunch, Orange and Alcatel-Lucent set 400 Gbps fiber link live http://gigaom.com/2013/02/07/fighting-the-capacity-crunch-orange-and-alcatel-lucent-set-400-gbps-fiber-link-live/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:47:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kang Gary http://gigaom.com/2013/02/07/fighting-the-capacity-crunch-orange-and-alcatel-lucent-set-400-gbps-fiber-link-live/#comment-1316794 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:59:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=608538#comment-1316794 This is comparing apples to pears… Infinera cannot offer 500G systems today. What they can offer is 500G PICs (chipset essentially) which can only do 100G transponders/muxponders today… 500G PICs is equivalent to ALU PSE and can be considered as enabling technologies for 100G and 100G+ systems.

What ALU archieved with France Telecom is a commercial deployment with 400G muxponders which is powered by PSE.

To make it simple:
ALU started to ship single carrier 100G coherent solutions back in June, 2010. Infinera only started to ship 100G solutions with DTN-X two years later in 2H, 2012.

ALU today can offer 400G coherent solutions to France Telecom. Infinera’s 500G solutions are no where in terms of commerical deployment…

]]> By: InfineraCorp - Mark Showalter http://gigaom.com/2013/02/07/fighting-the-capacity-crunch-orange-and-alcatel-lucent-set-400-gbps-fiber-link-live/#comment-1311648 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:40:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=608538#comment-1311648 Although this is a significant milestone for ALU, this announcement appears to ignore the fact that Infinera started shipping 500G optical super-channels in Q2’12 and has announced that 22 customers have selected the Infinera solution with deployments carrying live traffic on 500G super-channels across the globe today.

Here is one example of 500G long-haul super-channels that have been in place since last year, the Europe Persia Express Gateway (EPEG) deployment which includes Infinera’s DTN-X for the Cable&Wireless Worldwide portion of the route:

http://www.epegcable.com/

Mark Showalter
Infinera Corporate Communications

]]> By: willphillies http://gigaom.com/2013/02/07/fighting-the-capacity-crunch-orange-and-alcatel-lucent-set-400-gbps-fiber-link-live/#comment-1309415 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:16:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=608538#comment-1309415 Reblogged this on willphillies and commented:
That’s rather amazing when can I get one to my house?

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