Infinera and Canalink Validate Infinite Capacity Engine Over Subsea Cable
May 09 2017 - 8:00AM
Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced a
successful subsea field test with Canalink across its subsea cable.
The test, conducted with the Infinera Infinite Capacity Engine
(ICE4) and featuring Infinera's fourth-generation photonic
integrated circuit (PIC), demonstrated the capability to upgrade
the cable capacity 13-fold.
Canalink, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ITER group, owns a
system of undersea fiber optic cables that link the Canary Islands
with the Iberian Peninsula and the western coast of Africa.
Canalink also has exchange agreements with other operators, and
participates in undersea cable consortia aiming to connect Europe
with Africa, transforming Tenerife, and the D-Alix datacenter
specifically, into a node for the massive exchange of neutral data
traffic.
The test was conducted on Canalink’s 1,393 kilometer subsea
cable, linking the Conil landing point on the Spanish mainland with
Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Conducted across three fully-loaded
channel plans at 37.5 gigahertz (GHz), 50 GHz and 25 GHz
channel spacing, the test validated advanced compensation
techniques and new modulation schemes including:
- Software-programmable quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) and
8QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation)
- Nyquist subcarriers, which offer an approximately 20 percent
increase in reach compared to single-carrier transmission
- Soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) gain sharing,
in which high-performance carriers can be paired with
lower-performance carriers, mitigating the effects of optical
non-linearities and increasing system capacity
“The successful field test with Infinera demonstrated that we
can achieve approximately 13 times more capacity than we initially
estimated on our subsea link,” said Carlos Suárez, General Director
of Canalink. “Infinera's Infinite Capacity Engine and its
innovative technology designed for subsea operators prove that its
deployment can enable us to protect our investment and maximize the
use of our infrastructure.”
“Infinera is committed to bringing advanced capabilities to the
subsea market, and we are pleased to enable Canalink to maximize
capacity on their systems,” said Scott Jackson, Infinera Vice
President, Subsea Business Group. “This test validates the benefits
of ICE4 Nyquist subcarriers and SD-FEC gain sharing, enabling
subsea cables to move to higher modulation formats for increased
fiber capacity and greater return on the asset.”
Infinera introduced the Infinite Capacity Engine-based subsea
platforms, including the XTS‑3300 and XTS‑3600 meshponders, and
upgraded its DTN-X XTC Series to 12 terabits per second (Tb/s)
earlier this year. The new platforms feature Infinera’s Advanced
Coherent Toolkit (ACT), which delivers innovations including
Nyquist subcarriers, SD-FEC gain sharing, and matrix-enhanced
phase-shift keying (ME-PSK).
Additional Resources
- Infinera Introduces Next Step Function in Optical Networking
with the Groundbreaking Infinite Capacity Engine
- Infinera Transforms Subsea Networks to Cloud Scale with New
DTN-X Platforms
- Infinera Subsea Networks
About InfineraInfinera (NASDAQ:INFN) provides
Intelligent Transport Networks, enabling carriers, cloud operators,
governments and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate
service innovation and automate optical network operations.
Infinera’s end-to-end packet-optical portfolio is designed for
long-haul, subsea, data center interconnect and metro applications.
Infinera’s unique large scale photonic integrated circuits enable
innovative optical networking solutions for the most demanding
networks. To learn more about Infinera visit www.infinera.com,
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This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to the potential operational, technical
and economic benefits of deploying Infinera products and solutions
on subsea networks. These statements are not guarantees of results
and should not be considered as an indication of future activity or
future performance. Actual results may vary materially from these
expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties.
Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks
and uncertainties that affect Infinera’s business, is contained in
the risk factors section and other sections of Infinera’s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 as filed
with the SEC on February 23, 2017, as well subsequent reports filed
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currently intend to, update any such forward-looking
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