Verizon Business has deployed commercial 100G (gigabits per second) ultra-long-haul optical system for live traffic. The system was deployed on the company’s European optical core network between Paris and Frankfurt.
The company said that it is using Nortel’s commercially available 100G service to carry live private IP traffic between its core routers over 893-kilometer (555-mile) route without modifying the system.
The company claims that the 100G equipment will enable it to carry increasing amounts of IP backbone traffic when compared with an equivalent number of 10G links, the current speed for the majority of backbone traffic today.
Verizon has sent a 100G signal by using the same spacing between wavelengths that is used for a single wavelength. The 100G transmission was conducted on ultra-long-haul optical system carrying other live 10G wavelengths.
Mark Wegleitner, senior vice president of technology at Verizon, said: By consolidating traffic onto one large pipe rather than several smaller ones, customers will benefit from increased network capacity, improved transmission quality and greater network efficiencies.
Philippe Morin, president of metro ethernet networks at Nortel, said: The progression to 100G optical speeds is a critical next step for forward-looking service providers like Verizon. Nortel’s unique 100G technology makes this evolution one that is painless to deploy while lowering total network costs.
