Fujitsu Announces New Optical Transponders for 5G
Fujitsu announced its new 1FINITY T500 and T600 series bandwidth-variable transport blades at OFC 2018 in San Diego, California (USA). The new family of optical transponders is designed to meet the needs of global network service providers and data center operators. Fujitsu said its new family combines design flexibility and enhanced transport functions with leading space and power efficiency. The 1FINITY T500 and T600 series blades deliver maximum performance and provide the foundation for 5G mobile transport and service-aware conscious networks, Fujitsu said.
Fujitsu said its latest product releases are based on advanced 16 nm CMOS fin-FET digital signal processor (DSP) technology developed by NTT Electronics (NEL) in partnership with the company. Further, that the 1FINITY T500 and T600 blades enable up to 2.4 Tbps of service transport in a fully compliant, pluggable 1RU design. The company said its new products introduce entirely new levels of capacity, fiber reach and power to optical networks, and that their advanced DSP technology delivers dozens of operation modes, including leading 64 GBaud, 64QAM transmission for 600 Gbps wavelengths. Fujitsu said this performance enables the 1FINITY platform to provide the best transmission performance across a wide range of applications, including data center interconnect (DCI), metro, long-haul and subsea transport applications.
"As users continue to push more demanding application traffic over the network, service providers require high-performance, high-speed transport to enable greater bandwidth capacity," said Andrew Schmitt, lead analyst at Cignal AI. "The latest 1FINITY transport technology enables faster transport speeds, design flexibility and power efficiency to meet the needs of escalating mobile, broadband and cloud network traffic."
