Coherent pluggables

Chalk Talk

Dino DiPerna

VP R&D, Optical Technology & Packet-Optical Platforms

Greg Friesen

VP PLM, Optical Technology & Packet-Optical Platforms

April 2021

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Coherent Pluggables

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State of the Industry around coherent optical networking

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Coherent technology is playing an increasingly critical role in solving networking business challenges

Addressing the need for Massive Scale

Network capacity

Cost Reduction

Competitiveness

BECOMING PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGY ACROSS APPLICATIONS

100s to 1000s km

10,000km

10s to 1000s km

10s km

Selecting the most suitable optical technology for network applications critical to controlling costs/space/power

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Elements of coherent optical solution

Transponder / Muxponder

Service terminal

λyλy

Switch / Router

100G to 800G

Line system

DWDM Waves

λ1

λ1

λ2

λ2

λ3

λ3

λ4

λ4

λ5

λ5

λy

λy

Channel Mux/

Amplification

Optical switch

Demux (CMDs)

(ROADM)

Coherent optics deployed across L1/L2 switch, router, and optical transport equipment

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