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Super-Channels DWDM Transmission Beyond 100Gb/s  [1.4 MB]
A number of different industry surveys indicate that total internet demand is growing at about 40% per year. This growth is driven mainly by increasing video traffic in the network—Netflix now takes up to 30% of the internet’s bandwidth at peak hours, and new competitors like Amazon, Hulu, Youku, and the BBC iPlayer are growing rapidly. This growth is now further accelerated by mobile access, with video clients shipping on an all smart phones and tablets, enabling video to be consumed more conveniently via network connections anywhere, anytime. |
- An Update on Photonic Integration -- An ACG Market Impact Report [409 KB]
An ACG Market Impact Report
PICs look to be the future for high bit rate scaling at cost-effective price points. Intelligence can also be applied to a PIC based system by grooming services to operate as efficiently as possible, especially as we migrate to more control-plane centric transparent mesh topologies. - Infinera DTN-X Announcement -- An ACG Market Impact Report [403 KB]
Based on over 150 awarded patents, Infinera is introducing the DTN-X with a "clean slate design." The DTN-X uses the 500G coherent technology Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) combined with large-scale OTN switching and grooming. The backplane supports 1 Tb/s/slot and is designed to support a multibay approach to larger configurations. This is the largest OTN/WDM switched transport product announced to date, and it will be available in the first half of 2012. - The Evolving Economics of
Optical Network Design [453 KB]
It is well known that Internet traffic is exploding, with most of the traffic growth fueled by video services such as Netflix and YouTube. While this growth in traffic has resulted in increased revenues for content providers, service providers are not necessarily seeing large increases in their revenue streams. Therefore, it is essential for service providers to maximize the effective utilization of capital costs and maximize the productivity of operational costs. Towards this end, the landscape of optical transport networks has seen tremendous shifts in the past few years. A cost comparison of the various design alternatives is the focus of this paper. - Infonetics Research [1.2 MB]
The Fast Approaching 100G Era
The way optical networks are built is fundamentally changing yet again. These once-a-decade transformations remake service provider network architectures, and in turn reshape the equipment supplier landscape that provides them. - A Competitive Advantage for Financial Applications [1.3 MB]
As financial and trading firms continue to optimize algorithmic and electronic trading applications, many are looking to achieve the lowest possible latency across communications networks. Investing in systems and networks which eliminate milliseconds and even microseconds of latency can be a high-return project given the competitive nature of today’s environment, where speed of market information and order delivery has a profound impact on the algorithms driving the trading strategies. - Accelerating Market
Data and Trading at the Speed of Light [1 MB]
As financial and trading firms continue to optimize algorithmic and electronic trading applications, many are looking to achieve the lowest possible latency across communications networks. Investing in systems and networks which eliminate milliseconds and even microseconds of latency can be a high-return project given the competitive nature of today's environment, where speed of market information and order delivery has a profound impact on the algorithms driving the trading strategies. - Bandwidth Virtualization Enables a Programmable Optical Network [1.3 MB]
Bandwidth Virtualization™ in Digital Optical Networks provides a scalable, cost-effective and easy to manage service deliver architecture that contains built-in investment protection for emerging technology enhancements. Based on the use of Photonic Integrated Circuit and Digital Optical Network™ technology, Bandwidth Virtualization decouples the service layer from the optical transmission layer, providing operators with software-based flexibility for provisioning new services; unconstrained reconfigurability, and rapid service turn-up. - Digital Optical Network Architecture Benefits [3.74 MB]
This White Paper outlines the concept and benefits of an Infinera Digital Optical Network, including the ability to consolidate network architecture, maximize customer revenue capture, and reduce both capital and operating costs. - Digital Optical Network Services [1.04 MB]
This paper describes differentiated transport service offerings which can be delivered by a digital optical network. - Digital Optical Networks: Rapid, Cost-Effective Deployment and Turn-up Case Study [74 KB]
The Infinera Digital Optical Network® defines a new network architecture that offers a significant benefit: the ability to install and turn-up new services at unprecedented speed and reduced levels of cost and staff. This paper presents a real-life nationwide Infinera Digital Optical Network deployment that delivered a 90% reduction in installation cost and time, and enables the service provider to turn up new services, even across ~14,000 route-miles, in a matter of minutes. - How to Maximize Network Bandwidth Efficiency (And Avoid a "Muxponder Tax") [1.7 MB]
Network bandwidth efficiency is a key metric that measures what portion of deployed network bandwidth is actually used to carry revenue-generating services. Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization architecture combines digital grooming with high-capacity WDM transport to efficiently groom all services, from low-rate Gigabit Ethernet up to 100G services, onto a pool of PIC-based WDM bandwidth. This enables network operators using Infinera's Digital Optical Network solution to make maximum use of all WDM bandwidth deployed, approaching 100%, regardless of service type. - Next-Generation Higher Speed Ethernet: 100Gb/s Ethernet and Beyond [367 KB]
100 Gigabit Ethernet is the next step in Ethernet evolution. This White Paper discusses a new implementation scheme for 100 Gb/E to enable efficient and resilient scaling to higher speeds. - Photonic Integrated Circuits: A Technology and Application Primer [1.99 MB]
Large-scale photonic integration is a significant technology development that brings significant benefits to optical networks. This White Paper looks at some of the technology and application drivers for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and some of the issues associated with the design and manufacture of PICs. - Reconfigurability of Digital Optical Networks [402 KB]
This paper focuses on the benefits of a Digital Optical Network for service delivery. The Digital Optical Network architecture maximizes service flexibility, network reconfigurability, and forecast tolerance to new services and changes in service demands. - Signal Conditioning and Forward Error Correction in a Digital Optical Network [239 KB]
This paper discusses the strategy for use of analog signal conditioning in conjunction with an advanced FEC code for ensuring performance in Digital Optical Networks.