{"id":3421,"date":"2012-03-16T00:25:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T23:10:17","slug":"standard-optical-fiber-transmits-1-7tbps-over-core-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"Standard optical fiber transmits 1.7Tbps over core network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2012\/03\/optical-network-transmits-17tbps-over-a-core-network-suggests-200-gbps-isnt-hard.ars\">Standard optical fiber transmits 1.7Tbps over core network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chinese telecommunications provider <strong>ZTE<\/strong> held a field demonstration of an optical network capable of transmitting 1.7Tbps, the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9225224\/ZTE_demonstrates_next_generation_optical_network_at_1.7Tbps\">announced<\/a> today. The network used <strong>Wavelength Division Multiplexing<\/strong> to achieve the thousand-gigabit speeds, which separates data into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoa.org\/tech\/dwdm.htm\">different wavelengths<\/a>\u00a0and transmits those wavelengths over the same optical fiber. In ZTE&#8217;s demonstration, the company used 8 different channels, each transmitting 216.4Gbps. The transmission was conducted in China over 1,087 miles, on a standard fiber-optic cable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the linked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9225224\/ZTE_demonstrates_next_generation_optical_network_at_1.7Tbps\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ZTE isn&#8217;t the only vendor that has conducted demonstrations to show its prowess when it comes to <strong>next-generation WDM systems<\/strong>. Last week, ZTE&#8217;s Chinese competitor <strong>Huawei<\/strong> showed a prototype system that can handle 400Gbps per channel and offer a total capacity of 20Tbps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder where Tellabs or Lucent equipment is in all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard optical fiber transmits 1.7Tbps over core network. Chinese telecommunications provider ZTE held a field demonstration of an optical network capable of transmitting 1.7Tbps, the company announced today. The network used Wavelength Division Multiplexing to achieve the thousand-gigabit speeds, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[992,277,196,449],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-alcalu","tag-china","tag-optical-networks","tag-tellabs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}