High-Speed Broadband on the Up! P14

Issue 5 | Q3 2015

High-speed broadband on the up! p14

p16 The case for Silicon Photonics p18 Mellanox drives

p20 Demanding markets p22 PON set for record levels p24 Refined fibresp26 FTTx empowers APAC

p28 Future-proof Europe! p30 Trending Now

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Issue 5 | Q3 2015

High-speed broadband on the up! p14 Fibre has been on the rise in Spain over the last few years, with telecoms 14 High-speed broadband on regulator CNMC (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia) the up! recently reporting that connections in the country have grown to 1.81

p16 Silicon Photonics p18 Mellanox drives

p20 Demanding markets p22 PON set for record levels p24 Refined fibresp26 FTTx empowers APAC p28 Future-proof Europe! p30 Trending Now Matthew Peach million; an increase of well over 1 million on the previous year. Good Optical cOnnectiOns: Bringing the world the Latest in Optical Communications News progress was also reported in the FTTH Council Europe’s 2015 ‘FTTH market panorama’ and it is here that the fi bre optics community will 16 The case for Silicon descend for ECOC 2015; the 41st edition of ECOC and a 20th Photonics anniversary for the exhibition. This edition of Optical Connections includes Roy Rubenstein an in-depth look into the event, from page 32, with key presentations and exhibitors highlighted.

18 Mellanox drives According to the 2015 ‘Digital Agenda Scoreboard’, published by the Per Danielsen European Commission, there has also been a dramatic rise in European 4G coverage and high-speed broadband. Matthew Peach reports on page 14. 20 Demanding markets John Williamson For a long time, Silicon Photonics has been viewed as a technology with huge potential. Yet recently, there have been questions asked as to just when it will start delivering on its promise. On page 16, Roy Rubenstein 22 PON set for record levels highlights the companies closest to reaching the manufacturing stage and Julie Kunstler tells us not to be fooled by the apparent calm.

In the fi rst of two articles looking at passive optical networks, on page 21, 24 Refi ned fi bres John Williams celebrates G-PON’s success in the fi bre-based access Matthew Peach market. Julie Kunstler follows with an analytical forecast of PON growth for 2015, from page 22.

26 FTTx empowers APAC Earlier this year, a team from Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Kendrick Struthers-Watson Centre manufactured a record breaking 11km, hollow core photonic bandgap fi bre. The ORC also announced that it will make its specialised, next generation fi bres, like rare-earth-doped with ultra-high dopant 28 Future-proof Europe! Hartwig Tauber concentrations, available for general purchase. On page 24, Matthew Peach explains how these specialised fi bres are now supporting higher transmission rates and more energy-effi cient networks. 30 Trending now Gordon Brebner There has been a surge of fi bre growth amongst APAC countries, with 155m subscribers at the end of 2014 and 174m predicted by 2019. Kendrick Struthers Watson highlights the growth diversity and technology 32 Event focus - ECOC preference of this region, on page 26. FTTH and FTTB subscriptions in Europe have also risen signifi cantly. Director General of the FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tuaber, reviews the developments and predictions, on page 28.

On page 30, Gordon Brebner, Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx, highlights how two of the industry’s hottest topics, Software Defi ned Networks and Network Functions Virtualization, are set to reduce capital and operational expenditure.

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Alcatel-Lucent and Apollo achieve transmission record for capacity upgrade over 6,500km on transatlantic system

pollo and Alcatel-Lucent fully flexible WDM grid Submarine Networks and multiple modulation Athe undersea cables schemes tuning the subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, optical transmission in have demonstrated a capacity order to match each of 8 terabits-per-second of channel format to line data per fibre pair – equivalent performance. This to approximately 1.25 million spectral engineering HDTV channels simultaneously capability will be further streamed – on the Apollo extended with next- South system, which connects generation technology France to the United States. offered by the 1620 SOFTNODE, enabling an For the demonstration ASN increase in the ultimate used its current generation capacity per fibre pair 1620 Light Manager submarine of more than 10%. line terminal, equipped with Additionally, with the next the latest 100 gigabit-per- step evolution of error second technology and made correction coding and use of innovative detection pulse shaping schemes, techniques and advanced more than 10Tbit/s error correction coding. In per fibre pair can be Field trial carried out on the Apollo South system, connecting France to the US, combination with proprietary unlocked. demonstrated a capacity of 8Tbit/s per fibre pair. modulation and pulse shaping schemes, this commercially Richard Elliott, Managing current entire Atlantic traffic in performance throughout the life available solution counteracts Director of Apollo said, “This use today.” of a system. As capacity and the signal distortions and new demonstration further connectivity needs continue to noise that impact high speed, proves the technological Philippe Dumont, President increase, the high resiliency to long-distance transmission lead of the Apollo system in of Alcatel-Lucent Submarine potential degradation at higher performance. offering capacity increases. Networks said, “This field speeds combined with the The achievable capacity of trial is another proof point reliability of our technology offer This capacity demonstration 8Tbit/s per fibre pair has of the adaptability of ASN a cost-effective and flexible was made possible by confirmed once again our technology that continues to networking model to cope with implementing smart spectral expectation; that Apollo could offer carriers a smart evolution content providers and their engineering, which includes a carry around four times the path for tuning capacity and end-users’ service demands.” Huawei Marine commences undersea installation of Nigeria-Cameroon cable uawei Marine Networks development policy throughout to provide users with faster than any other optical amplifier. has commenced Cameroon’s national territory.” bandwidth connectivity at a The slim-line titanium casing Hinstallation of the NCSCS significantly lower cost. By supports enhanced burial (Nigeria-Cameroon Submarine The NCSCS system forms part providing direct connection capability through simultaneous Cable System), Cameroon’s of Cameroon’s broader strategic to Nigeria, the cable system lay and burial beneath the first wholly-owned submarine plan for building a National will also serve to enhance seabed which reduces both cable with investment from the Broadband Network and the Cameroon’s position as the marine installation costs and Cameroon government. implementation is expected major bandwidth hub in the associated system risk. to significantly enhance the region and internationally to Spanning 1,100km, the development of e-government, Europe and beyond.” Mike Constable, Chief Executive NCSCS will link Kribi in e-trade, e-education and Officer, Huawei Marine, said, Cameroon, with Lagos in e-health programs and boost Utilizing Huawei Marine’s “We are proud to be entering Nigeria and deliver 12.8Tbps the economic and commercial industry leading Wavelength into the marine installation phase of capacity to broadband users development of Cameroon. Division Multiplex (WDM) and of this landmark project that will in both countries by the end of Optical Transport Network bring all-important connectivity 2015. David Nkoto Emane, General technologies, the NCSCS to Cameroon and the region. Manager, Cameroon also incorporates the world’s This project represents the Jean-Pierre Biyiti Bi Essam, Telecommunications, said, first titanium-cased six-fiber culmination of years of research Cameroon’s Minister of Posts “The NCSCS system will pair repeater. Huawei Marine’s and development and a rigorous and Telecommunications, said provide new opportunities and second generation RPT 1660 qualification regime associated the installation demonstrates further the development of represents a substantial with our second-generation “the willingness of the our network in both domestic advancement in innovation repeater which enhances our Government to implement a and international markets. The as it is not only the smallest network solutions to the ultimate true broadband infrastructure NCSCS system enables us repeater but also 40% lighter benefit of our customers.”

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APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent conduct Europe’s first TWDM-PON trial

odafone and Alcatel- 10 Gigabit GPON (XG-PON1) Lucent are set to conduct and 10 Gigabit EPON. The Full VEurope’s first field trial Service Access Network (FSAN) of a time and wavelength- Group and ITU are completing division multiplexed passive the standard that supports optical network (TWDM-PON), up to eight wavelengths, in investigations aimed at each capable of 10 Gigabit discovering the potential symmetrical or 10/ 2.5 Gigabit of using access network asymmetrical speeds. technology over Vodafone’s existing infrastructure. The combination of time and wavelength division multiplexing Vodafone said that the field allows TWDM-PON to support trials build on the successful multiple PONs, each sharing its completion of their lab trial in capacity among 16, 32, 64 or Vigo, Spain, where Alcatel- even 128 end points depending Lucent’s TWDM-PON on the operator’s chosen split WDM-PON is the next-generation access scheme after 10 Gigabit GPON (XG-PON1) and 10 Gigabit EPON. technology achieved bit rates ratio. of up to 20Gbps using two wavelengths. Operators can start with a 10 4-port line-card, each port operational efficiencies that Gig PON using fixed-wavelength supporting a 10 Gigabit PON. keep them competitive in a Gavin Young, Vodafone’s head optics and move to TWDM- The line card is used within challenging market. We are of fixed access, said “We have PON and tunable modules Alcatel-Lucent’s 7360 Intelligent committed to providing them been engaged with Alcatel- as their capacity needs grow. Services Access Manager with innovative technologies Lucent for several years on “You won’t have to swap out FX platform, and supports that will allow them to reduce TWDM-PON development, legacy XG-PON1 hardware two fixed and tunable SFP optical costs and deliver new testing and trial activities, and years from now,” said Stefaan modules. services more easily. That is all of which have shown great Vanhastel, director of fixed why TWDM-PON is such an results. We look forward to access marketing at Alcatel- Federico Guillén, president of important development for conducting field trials of TWDM- Lucent. Alcatel-Lucent’s fixed access them.” PON technology in Europe.” business line, said “Vodafone In 2014, Alcatel-Lucent wants to grow capacity to First operator TWDM-PON TWDM-PON is the next- introduced a four-wavelength meet customer demand. pilot deployments will occur in generation access scheme after TWDM-PON based on a They also want to benefit from 2016, says Alcatel-Lucent.

Witcom deploys Adva FSP 3000 system to enable ‘dynamic connectivity’

dva Optical Networking customers want more bandwidth provisioning new has announced than ever before. Adva’s ROADM services and Athat German technology provides us with bandwidth. The telecommunications carrier, a dynamic infrastructure and network was WiTCOM, has deployed enables us to move away from a designed and tested the Adva FSP 3000 with rigid and costly infrastructure.” with Adva’s long-term reconfigurable optical add- partner, Dacoso, a specialist Adva FSP 3000 drop multiplexer technology WiTCOM operates a 500km in connectivity solutions and throughout the Hessen region network with eight nodes data center services, in the Martin Stengel, CTO at Dacoso, of Germany. The carrier is connected in a ring architecture. company’s laboratories in added, “Together with Adva, utilizing the ROADM capabilities The newly installed ROADM Langen, Germany. Operators we have safeguarded the future to transform its previously system transforms the network were also trained in how to connectivity of WiTCOM’s fixed network into what it into a meshed ring topology utilize the embedded multi- customers. Building on what calls “a flexible and dynamic and links between all sites layer GMPLS Control Plane, was already a successful infrastructure”. can be configured instantly RAYcontrol. The combination of three-way partnership, we were through adding and dropping Adva’s hardware and software able to remove the rigid nature Rainer Naaß, manager, wavelengths on multiple fibres. has, said WiTCOM, “resulted of WiTCOM’s network and IT-Business and Planning, The Adva FSP 3000 was in true network automation, supply them with a versatile, WiTCOM, commented, “We selected for its ability to enhance dynamic routing and self- efficient and scalable solution. need a network that can grow the flexibility and scalability of learning. It dramatically simplifies This relationship is set to go at the same pace as our clients’ its metro network. The new operations, drives energy further as WiTCOM is planning demands. Enterprises are calling system enables WiTCOM to efficiency throughout the network to enhance its network with for faster access to mission- rapidly respond to the growing and provides an abundance of Adva’s ConnectGuard encryption critical data and residential demands of customers by new revenue opportunities.” solution.”

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GigOptix raises revenue WDM to drive optical guidance by 5% to $9.8m transport market to for Q2, 2015 $15 billion by 2019

igOptix Inc of San Jose, the higher than initially forecast n a recently released Optical Jimmy Yu, Vice President Ca, USA, a fabless revenue. Transport forecast report by of Optical Transport Market Gsupplier of analog IDell’Oro Group, wavelength Research at Dell’Oro Group semiconductor and optical Based on these preliminary division multiplexer (WDM) said “The network still needs communications components revenue results for second- equipment demand is expected a lot of raw bandwidth and for fiber-optic and wireless quarter 2015, along with to drive the Optical Transport WDM is the best equipment to networks, has raised its revenue continued healthy margin market to $15 billion by 2019. deliver that. While high demand guidance for second-quarter performance and tight expense Dell’Oro’s report, with covers for long haul equipment will 2015 by 5%, from the $9.3- controls, GigOptix also believes manufacturer revenue, average continue, the biggest growth 9.5m provided on 27 April to that it will achieve positive GAAP selling prices, unit shipments that we are projecting is in about $9.8m, up 8% sequentially net income and record non- and Tributary/Line or Wavelength metro applications. The majority and 22% year-on-year. GAAP profitability. shipments (by speed up to of metro equipment purchases >100 Gbps), forecast that WDM will still be made by telecom Continued demand in the firm’s In addition, as a result of the metro revenue is due to grow service providers, expanding High Speed Communications better than initially forecasted at a 10 percent compounded their metro network capacity product line – primarily for its revenue performance for first-half annual growth rate and that for higher speed services, but QSFP+ drivers and trans- 2015 (up 22% year-on-year) and 75 percent of WDM network we also see a strong trend impedance amplifiers for the current continuous strong capacity installed across the towards enterprises such as data-centre active optical growth outlook for both the third next five years will be from 100 Internet content providers and cables and transceivers, and quarter and the remainder of Gbps wavelengths. Demand financial institutions procuring the linear-coherent 100G and 2015, GigOptix has raised its for 200 Gbps wavelengths and installing their own high 200G drivers for use in long-haul revenue forecast for full-year is expected to ramp in metro speed 100 Gbps links. This and metro telecom applications, 2015 by 4% (from the previously applications this year and is trend is being powered by the as well as new business announced guidance midpoint forecast to contribute nearly increasing importance of data opportunities in the Industrial of $37.5m) to at least $39m (up 25 percent of WDM metro centres to a company’s core product line – has resulted in 19% on $32.9m for 2014). equipment revenue by 2019. business.” Lebanon gives FTTH $600m boost elecommunications of the country is still working Minister Boutros on 2G and 3G, adding that Harb has unveiled the cost of implementing this a five year plan to new five year plan was not too revampT Lebanon’s telecoms high compared to the losses infrastructure, assuring that incurred by Lebanon in the Internet users across the absence of such an important country would enjoy fibre optic technology. connectivity by the year 2020. “The project will cost over “Fibre optic networks will $600 million but it will be fully be installed in Lebanon covered by the budget of the progressively over five years Telecommunications Ministry Boutros Harb said Lebanon would be “totally connected through this technology by the year 2020” and the country will be and this project will attract totally connected through foreign investments to Lebanon The new changes resulted in an areas. A fibre optic network this technology by the year while providing new job increase in the number of landline already exists in Lebanon but for 2020,” Harb said during a opportunities. This is why we subscribers by 120,000 over a the time being it only connects ceremony held at the Grand are urging CSOs (civil society year and a half, while the number centres together. Serail and attended by Prime organisations), local institutions, of digital line (DSL) subscribers Minister Tammam Salam, municipalities and the media went up by 100,000 for the Head of state-owned telecoms ministers, ambassadors, and to play a role in spreading this same period of time, according operator Ogero, Abdel Moneim representatives of the private culture and informing people to Harb. Youssef, said that Lebanon has sector and the media. about the benefits of such a used 15 Gb in 2007 compared plan,” Harb said. These changes led to an increase to 45m Gb in 2010, 155m Gb Harb said the ministry would also in Internet penetration from 70% in and 310m Gb in 2014. roll out 4G services to cover the Harb slashed the prices 2013 to 86% in 2015”. whole country in two years, in of communication and “We still have hopes to seize preparation for the launch of 5G Internet services within Among the major changes the opportunity in five years connection by the year 2020. weeks of replacing former implemented by Harb in the to promote and enhance our Telecommunications Minister past few months is the creation connectivity as fast as possible The minister said that only 16% Nicolas Sehnaoui, reducing of technical workshops for in order not to be taken back of Lebanon is currently covered tariffs on local and international connecting fibre optics to more by the great wave of data,” he by a 4G connection, while most calls and cellular fees. than 40 new centers in rural concluded.

8 ISSUE 5 | Q3 2015 neWs & BUsiness

NEWS IN BRIEF euNetworks deploys Ciena’s Free space optics global 200G solution Bandwidth infrastructure provider, euNetworks, has announced it is using Ciena’s 6500 Packet- market forecast Optical Platform, equipped with the new WaveLogic 3 Extreme ccording to a new per transmitter FSO unit to FSO or other wireless coherent optics, to deliver survey published provide redundancy in signal solutions. The Europe/ 100GE bandwidth services by US based links. Another FSO trend Middle East/Africa (EMEA) to customers. This utilises market analyst, in 2015 is deployment in region is the current market 200G per 50GHz dense wave ElectroniCast,A the global residential FTTH solutions, leader, however, the APAC division multiplexing (DWDM) consumption of fi xed-location where relatively short-link region has rapidly expanding channels and will deliver the fi rst (stationary) transmitter/receiver FSO is being installed as an market opportunities and commercial high capacity 200G links used in non-military/ alternative to optical fibre. Of therefore, the ElectroniCast connectivity solution in EMEA. aerospace FSO system course, FSO usage in short- forecast shows the APAC equipment was $37.2m in distance links is not new; region with the fastest growth WIN a FREE ticket for 2014, up 11% from $33.5m however, marketing to carriers (2014-2020), with the region in 2013. FSO transmitters as an alternative to optical eventually taking over the FTTH Conference 2016! and receiver pairs used in fibre termination at the home leadership position. The FTTH Conference 2016, link equipment with a range is an interesting proposition”. the largest fi bre-to-the-home capability of up to 500m led in FSO is a line-of-sight specifi c conference in the world, relative market share in 2014, The increase in the technology that uses directed will take place in Luxembourg, th th with a global consumption consumption of FSO links laser beams, which provide between 16 and 18 February value of $25.2m. in the Americas region optical bandwidth transmitters next year and we are giving away two tickets to readers of Optical is attributed to not only and receivers to link voice, Connections magazine. For your Stephen Montgomery, continued upgrades and video, and data intelligent chance to win, email liam.taylor@ Director of the market study, network facilitation in the transfer. FSO systems are nexusmediaevents.com with your said “In 2015, we are seeing United States and Canada, deployed near the 1550 nm answer to the following question… hybrid link equipment as a but also from the accelerating wavelength window as well winning solution, especially economic growth of major as the near-visible infrared By 2019, how many FTTH/B in longer-distance links, to cities in Latin America. spectral region around 780nm subscriptions are forecast provide the assurance of European inner-city urban to 850nm and selected for countries within the redundancy, to cover for areas typically are diffi cult for providers claim that their European Union? (If you need a clue, you will fi nd FSO’s weaknesses (weather wire-lines, including optical solutions can provide “carrier- an article from Hartwig Tauber, and other obstacles), as fi bre cable installations; class” availability even in Director General of the FTTH well as multiple emitters therefore, this fact promotes adverse weather conditions. Council Europe, on page 28...)

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NEWS IN BRIEF Altera’s FPGA family offers co- Infinera reports improved Q2 2015 financial results packaged optical interface options Infinera Corporation has ltera’s latest Stratix are also looking at optical (SoC) devices that include a released financial results for the 10 FPGA family uses transceivers directly connected quad-core 64-bit architecture second quarter of 2015, which advanced semiconductor to the FPGA,” said Davies. Such Cortex-A53 ARM processor ended June 27, 2015. Revenue A packaging techniques that links would simplify interfacing alongside the programmable for the quarter was $207.3m paves the way for co-packaged to OTN mappers, and benefit logic. compared to $186.9m in optical interfaces. The chip data centre designs that use the first quarter of 2015 and optical links between racks and The Stratix 10 family is $165.4m in the second quarter company recognises that future of 2014. FPGAs will need to support for the top-of-rack switch. implemented using Intel’s 14nm Tom Fallon, Infinera’s a variety of line speeds and FinFET process and supports Chief Executive Officer, modulation schemes.“You can’t With the system-in-package up to 5.5 million logic elements, commented, “Our outstanding build one transceiver that fits all integration, different FPGAs nearly 5x larger than Altera’s second quarter results were of these requirements and even can be built without having to 20nm Arria family of FPGAs driven by robust demand if you could, it would not be an create a new expensive mask which has 1.15 million logic across multiple verticals, as optimised design,” said Craig set each time. “You can build elements. Intel announced in customers continued to build Davis, senior product marketing a modular lego-block FPGA June its intention to acquire next generation networks manager at Altera. and all that it has different is Altera for US $16.7 billion. with Infinera. Differentiated the packaged substrate,” said products, exceptional customer Using this approach, a Davies. Altera will have engineering experience and a vertical customer can add to their samples of the Stratix 10 business model enable us to design the desired interface, Altera has detailed two variants towards the end of 2015, continue to grow our top line including optical interfaces as of the Stratix 10 family: 10 before being shipped to rapidly and our bottom line even well as electrical ones. “We FPGAs and 10 system-on-chip customers. faster.”

ADVA unveils CloudConnect ADVA Optical Networking Fibre to the desk simplicity has unveiled its FSP 3000 CloudConnect, a data centre interconnect product designed to cater for the differing needs by DiaLink, from Diamond. of the data centre players and wiss high precision The compact DiaLink to scale to 100 terabit. solutions manufacturer, interface enables installation The FSP 3000 CloudConnect SDiamond SA, have in crowded cable ducts comes in several configurations, introduced the DiaLink solution. and protects against with all the platforms using the A product designed to provide contamination, and the small QuadFlex card that has an 800 efficient, comfortable and cable diameter allows for gigabit throughput: up to 400 smart fibre installations, with smaller and lighter installation gigabit client-side interfaces no splicing, or complicated cable spools. Tensile force of and a 400 gigabit line rate. The connector assembly required. up to 300N can be achieved, QuadFlex card is only a half Users simply pull in pre- thanks to the tractive cap. rack unit (RU) wide and up to assembled fibre optic cables seven can be fitted in ADVA’s 4 with DiaLink connectors on The active components in the Efficient, comfortable and smart rack unit SH4R CloudConnect installations, with no splicing or both ends of the required link. network determine the network complicated assembly. platform, for a total line-side The connections are made at speed. The faster the better. transport capacity of 2.8 Tbit/s. the floor or wall box in the work Scientific studies have shown and it is not just data, or area, with the other end of the that a fast reaction time has USB modules that can be Broadcom launch 10G EPON fibre optic cable connected to a positive impact on working integrated, with digital power cable residential gateway the ODF (Optical Distribution efficiency, thus, making the component integration also Semiconductor manufacturer, Frame), via DiaLink connections. quality of the components possible, allowing the user to Broadcom, has released a The excess length of cable can in the core or edge area turn their office space into a DOCSIS-compatible, 10G Eth- be stored in the DiaLink fibre crucial. The Fibredesk stations fully functioning ‘smart working’ ernet Passive Optical Network storage box. however, can do even better environment. (EPON) residential gateway reference design that allows cable multiple system operators (MSOs) to provide multi-gigabit speeds for high-speed video R&M launch integrated HD and Internet services through an FTTH network, without ex- traffic access point module pensive upgrades implications. wiss connectivity monitoring using passive like 10 Gigabit Ethernet and The platform combines systems provider, optical tapping that is fully 16G Fibre Channel.R&M have Broadcom’s BCM55030, R&M, has introduced integrated into the cabling said that, by combining the a 10G/10G EPON optical S an HD traffic access point infrastructure and uses an functionality of an optical tap network unit (ONU) system-on- (TAP) module, for network advanced optical splitter to and physical layer monitoring a-chip (SoC), with the widely and application performance reduce insertion loss and in one easy-to-use structured deployed BCM33843 DOCSIS 3.0 cable gateway device. supervision. The module modal noise and enable high- cabling module, the HD TAP enables ongoing performance performance applications, module is a market first.

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Socionext takes part in record- breaking transmission field trial

ocionext’s latest first ever regional transmission and ADC IP optimized for “Having already supported generation of ultra- for 64 QAM. network applications will help the launch of the leading 100 Shigh-speed digital-to- system vendors to address Gbit, 200 Gbit and 400 Gbit analogue (DAC) and analogue- The field trial, which was the exponential growth of technology we are confident to-digital (ADC) converters, performed within the global and metropolitan that highly power efficient, have been integrated into framework of the European internet traffic” said Manfred economic single chip Terra- state-of-the-art coherent Celtic-Plus SASER (Safe and Mettendorff, Senior Director bit systems are also within receivers and transmitters for Secure European Routing) with Socionext Europe. reach.” a recent, record-breaking field project, funded jointly by the trial which transported dozens BMBF (Bundesministerium für of terabits per second over a Bildung und Forschung) and 762 kiliometer Lyon-Marseille- DGE (Direction Générale des Lyon fibre link. Entreprises), and supported by the IDEALIST project Socionext were part of a (Industry-Driven Elastic and team of advanced technology Adaptive Lambda Infrastructure engineers that included staff for Service and Transport from Orange, Coriant, Ekinops Networks), was conducted and Keopsys and have using the latest advances successfully demonstrated in ultra-high capacity optical the highest ever C-band communications, with an aim transmission capacity using of validating the compliance of 24 x 1 Tbps/DP-16 QAM the participating organisations (i.e. 24 Tbps), 32 x 1 Tbps / most advanced optical DP-32 QAM (i.e. 32 Tbps) and transport solutions with the real 32 x 1.2 Tbps/DP-64 QAM operation constraints of a ‘live’ (i.e. 38.4 Tbps) modulation capital transport network. formats in a ‘live’ networking environment. By achieving “We are excited to be able transmission reach of 762 to contribute again to a world kilometres in the same ‘live’ record in optical transport environment, the test has more with our advanced ADC than doubled the previous field and DAC technology. Our Efficient, comfortable and smart installations, record for 32 QAM and is the 3rd and 4th generation DAC with no splicing or complicated assembly.

Intengent promotes silicon photonics economics to benefit III-V optics

raditional optics can specialist processes to make with wafers,” said Tolstikhin. components and sub-systems, achieve the economic relatively low volumes of optical “That is the only way to make a and III-V foundries that make Tbenefits common to components. process mature, reproducible photonic chips for them. “The silicon photonics with its use and reliable.” aim is that you can go and of equipment, processes and Tolstikhin wants traditional design within existing fabs fabrication plants paid for by optical component designs to To use such MMIC fabs and processes something the chip industry. So argues piggyback on higher-volume requires that optical devices that meets the customer’s Valery Tolstikhin, head of design indium phosphide and gallium are designed to be process application and requirements,” consultancy Intengent and arsenide fabs that make compatible, requiring them to be he said. former founder and CTO of electronic devices such as manufacturable without using Canadian start-up OneChip monolithic microwave integrated wafer regrowth stages. This is One company Intengent is Photonics. circuits (MMICs) for wireless. something that Intengent can do working with is ELPHiC, a and what OneChip Photonics Canadian start-up that is raising Tolstikhin says the rise of silicon “To take photonics out of demonstrated with its optical funding to make single-mode photonics has sparked a general boutique fabs, you need to do designs. mid-board optics. The indium- interest in the economics of some standardisation and move phosphide design combines component making. At present, to a fabless model, then you Intengent acts as a bridge analogue electronic circuitry with indium phosphide fabs use can load the fabs day and night between OEMs building optical the photonics.

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KOC-FP-OpCons2015-Q4-Ad-Final.indd 1 14/08/2015 17:11 HIGH SPEED BROADBAND ON THE UP

High-speed broadband, equipment and FTTx sales all on the up, say analysts There has been a dramatic rise in European 4G Coverage and high-speed broadband, according to “2015 Digital Agenda Scoreboard”, published this summer by the European Commission. 2015 has also seen a 14% lift for broadband equipment sales over 2014, with FTTx optics sales expected to reach “a new record level” in a third market forecast report, by Ovum, writes Matthew Peach.

The report’s key findings technologies, the report which saw an increase in included: concluded. coverage from 12% to 91.9% Matthew Peach • At 89.6%, rural fixed and from no coverage to 67%, • At the end of 2014, 4G broadband coverage also respectively.” LTE mobile broadband was stayed at its 2013 level, available to nearly 8 in 10 but availability of NGA The observed data confirms esearch conducted (79.4%) of EU households, a technologies in rural areas Europe’s preference for by technology and 20% increase over 2013. increased from 18.1% in upgrading existing copper business market • Next Generation Access 2013 to 25.1% of rural networks. Moreover growth analyst IHS Inc. and broadband coverage homes passed by high- in overall NGA coverage can RItalian consultancy Valdani, reached 68.1% of EU speed networks in 2014. be primarily attributed to an Vicari & Associati on the homes, making high-speed Alzbeta Fellenbaum, senior increase in very-high-bit-rate availability of broadband (at least 30Mbps) broadband analyst at IHS Technology, digital subscriber line (VDSL) services across all European services available to 15.5m commented, “Denmark, coverage, which grew by over Union member states was households more than in Netherlands and Sweden are 7% in the year, reaching 37.6% published by the European 2013. leading the EU’s deployment of EU households by the end Commission at the end • Fixed broadband coverage of high-speed broadband, of 2014. of June. The EC’s “Digital remained the same as in with 99% of households now Agenda Scoreboard” shows a 2013 at 97%, pointing to covered by LTE. Other countries The fact that VDSL continues dramatic improvement in 4G a “slowing trajectory” as with outstanding performance to be the fastest-growing NGA LTE coverage and high-speed EU member states focus in LTE coverage also include technology further solidifies the broadband availability. instead on NGA and mobile the Czech Republic and Malta, shift observed in 2013, HIS continued, with companies in many target countries 100% refocusing their broadband deployment strategies towards 90% upgrading existing copper 80% networks rather than investing in the typically more costly 70% deployment of fibre optic all the 60% way to consumers’ homes. 50% Fellenbaum added, “VDSL 40% coverage grew significantly in a number of markets. Most

% of households 30% significant increases were 20% recorded in Denmark, Austria, and Iceland, which all reported 10% increases in VDSL coverage 0% exceeding 30 percentage EL IT FR PL HR SK CZ EU RO BG IE ES FI SE NO SI HU CY DE EE AT UK PT LV IS DK LU LT NL BE MT 28 points.”

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now available to 18.7% of $7.8bn for the full-year of 2015, Global 2.5G Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) spending European households. Baltic that total would be well above will remain above $4 billion mark in 2015 countries traditionally lead in historical years’ performances availability of FTTP services; and would show operators’ $5 in 2014 Lithuania and Latvia continued commitment to remained the two countries with providing premium fixed $4 the highest FTTP coverage, broadband services.” $3 with homes passed by FTTP reaching nearly 95% of IHS reports that in North $2 households in Lithuania and America, incumbents, utilities 83.2% in Latvia. and municipalities “are feeling $1 that FTTH and gigabit services

However, the strongest growth are giving them a chance to Global Revenue (US$ Billions) $0 2013 2014 2015 in FTTP coverage compared compete against established to 2013 was recorded in cable companies”, which are Portugal and Spain, where limited to asymmetric residential © IHS Infonetics PON, FTTH, and DSL Aggregation Equipment: Quarterly Market Share, Size and Forecasts; May 2015 FTTP coverage increased by services. The competitive 16.1% and 22.1% respectively, landscape has also heated up reaching 65.8 percent of in Latin America after years of Julie Kunstler, principal The largest potential downside Portuguese and 44.8 percent of consolidation and regulatory analyst in Ovum’s intelligent to the forecast could come Spanish homes. restrictions; cable operators networks and components from a slowdown in FTTx and telcos in that region are team and author of the report, deployments by the Chinese 2015 sees 14% lift for now investing after years of commented, “Numerous operators. China is the single broadband equipment underinvestment. positive factors are driving the largest consumer of PON sales FTTx optics market to new optics in the world and any The global broadband Ovum forecasts FTTx levels, including FTTH network slowdown would negatively aggregation equipment market, optics to exceed $1bn in deployments by China Mobile impact the forecast. However, including DSL, PON and 2015 and the continued network Ovum believes that China’s Ethernet FTTH, totalled $2.1bn According to a third market builds by China Telecom and newest operator entrant into in the first quarter of 2015, which forecast published mid-2015, China Unicom.” FTTx, China Mobile, is well represents a 5% sequential this time by London-based positioned to deploy an FTTx drop, but a 14% gain year on analyst Ovum, sales of Other positive trends network, bring existing mobile year, driven by GPON and VDSL FTTx optics and associated contributing to the strong customers onto its new wireline deployments, according to equipment are expected to growth are FTTx network broadband network, and offer another report from analyst IHS. reach “a new record level” deployments by North additional services. in 2015, following a record- American MSOs, Google Jeff Heynen, research director breaking 2014. The report Fiber’s expansion plan, US “This strong outlook benefits for broadband access at IHS, forecasts that global FTTx telco deployment plans, Japanese optical commented, “Broadband optical components revenue will European deployment plans, subcomponent vendors such aggregation equipment spending exceed $1bn this year, up from continued deployments as laser and lens went above $2 billion in each $953m in 2014. Next year is set in the Middle East, small manufacturers. Meanwhile, the of the last three quarters, so to remain strong, with forecast deployments in South and wireline broadband FTTx there was bound to be some revenue of $985m. Demand for Central America and Africa, market upswing is having a slowdown to start this year. PON equipment – both OLTs and the movement toward positive impact on component Although we expect to see and ONTs – is driving the FTTx FTTP or FTTH, which both and equipment vendors,” spending to drop to around optics market to record levels. require more PON ONT optics. concluded Kunstler.

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The case for silicon photonics

Silicon photonics has been a technology of promise for over a decade. So it is not surprising that industry voices have started to question the technology, writes Roy Rubenstein.

players - some silicon photonics phosphide and gallium arsenide Facebook has said it will use players, others like Finisar and can. “With III-V, all the core duplex single-mode as the Lumentum (formerly JDSU) functionality can be integrated fibre of choice for its large adding it to their portfolio - all in a single die,” says Joris Van data centres and has selected back the technology. Campenhout, programme the 2km, 100 Gig CWDM4 director for optical I/O at imec, interface to connect equipment. “I don’t think anything has the Belgium nano-electronics “Facebook is agnostic to ROY RUBENSTEIN fundamentally changed research centre. “In terms of technology,“ says Katharine [regarding silicon photonics],” pure performance, III-V is still a Schmidtke, strategic sourcing says Julie Eng, vice president of bit further.” manager, optical technology at fter steady transceiver engineering at Finisar. Facebook. “There are multiple technological progress “There is a lot of excitement But what attracts Verizon and technologies that meet our and a spate of start- over it, and then in developing Facebook to silicon photonics is requirements.” up acquisitions, silicon any new technology there are its ability to produce integrated photonicsA has entered a quiet always setbacks, difficulties and designs and its potential to Yet silicon photonics’ ability to period and even experienced challenges.” ramp to volume manufacturing produce integrated designs - setbacks. Silicon photonics quickly. with all the required functions pioneer Intel announced in Vladimir Kozlov, CEO of placed in one or two chips - is February it would delay the LightCounting Market Research, “Fundamentally, we believe appealing, says Schmidtke. launch of its silicon photonics agrees. “The excitement has silicon photonics is a real Such designs are needed to products by a year. And IBM - gone,” he says. “Now it is enabler,” says Glenn Wellbrock, scale and that requires a high- like Intel, a long-time developer the long hard work to deliver director of optical transport yielding process, especially of the technology - has products.” network architecture and design when a single large data centre announced a near-complete at Verizon. “It is the only way uses hundred of thousands of 100 Gigabit WDM transceiver Promise to get to the densities that we optical transceivers. This style of but said that while it intends to “The great advantage silicon want to get to, going forward.” manufacturing is what the chip use the technology internally, photonics gives you is industry excels at. wider adoption will be needed if access to first-rate fabrication Wellbrock says indium the design is to be economical. infrastructure,” says Michael phosphide photonic integrated Silicon ends up dominating Hochberg, director of R&D at circuits (PICs) can also fields, not necessarily because “As a general rule, the more that Coriant’s Advanced Technology achieve such densities. But it is the best choice in terms reality sets in, the less impressive Group. Silicon photonics offers with silicon photonics, there of performance but because silicon photonics gets to be,” 8- and 12-inch wafers, access are many potential suppliers, it ends up being so cheap in says Mark Lutkowitz, principal at to high-volume foundries, given its relatively low barrier scale, says Hochberg: “Once consultancy fibeReality. and an ability to manufacture to entry compared to indium you can do something in silicon complex designs in volume and phosphide.”To date, Infinera and do it adequately well, it Yet Verizon, Facebook, with a high yield. has been the only real [indium tends to displace everything Cisco, Coriant, and Mellanox phosphide] PIC company and else from the majority of the Technologies, as well as But silicon can’t lase whereas they build only for their own market.” optical component and module the III-V materials of indium platform,” says Wellbrock. Applications Silicon photonics may be in a 10,000,000 quiet period but products are shipping in volume. Cisco has 40-400G Si been using its 100 Gig CPAK 8,000,000 transceivers for several years, 40-400G InP with two CPAKs being silicon photonics-based. And the 40 6,000,000 40-400G GaAs Gig PSM4 module now ships in excess of 100,000 units. Six 4,000,000 companies offer 40 Gig PSM4 products, says LightCounting, but silicon photonics player 2,000,000 Luxtera has a healthy start.

Acacia is another selling silicon photonics-based modules. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Unlike Cisco and Luxtera, Acacia offers 100 and 400 LightCounting’s forecast showing the volumes of 40 to 400 Gig transceivers shipping between 2010-2021 Gig coherent modules for

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Large scale data centres use hundreds of thousands of optical transceivers. Image supplied by Facebook.

metro-regional and long-haul that while silicon photonics had over 10km using PAM-4. “This Adam Carter, chief commercial networking. Silicon photonics no technical hurdles, it had no platform can be scaled to officer at Oclaro, highlight has not shown itself to be edge compared to DML-based perform 400 Gig using a 4-by- concerns about the robustness the overwhelming solution for designs. “That is what brought 100 Gig or an 8-by-50 Gig of the supply chain for silicon such long distance networks us to parallel single mode,” WDM approach,” says Martin photonics and manufacturing but that could change, says says Welch. Luxtera uses one Guy, CTO & strategic marketing challenges. “A lot of people LightCounting. laser across multiple lanes at Teraxion. “In the long run, own the technology internally for its PSM4 designs. “It is data centre operators are but that does not mean that it is Cisco developed the CPAK after cheaper than multi-mode while interested in WDM over single- broadly available,” says Carter. the input/ output (I/O) traffic it having the long reach of single mode fibre and we believe “And the foundries that are needed for its equipment line mode,” he says. Luxtera is now silicon photonics can play a available today are boutique.” cards could not match the sampling its 100G (4x25G) significant role here.” packet processing capabilities PSM4 and will be in general There is also much more of its network processor production later this year. Silicon photonics start-up to making a part than the (NPU).“By the time someone Aurrion is another eyeing WDM. fab process, says Brandon could provide us with the optics Finisar and Lumentum have “We perceive that the market Collings, Lumentum’s CTO. that could achieve the I/O several photonic technologies has a lot of use for WDM,” “The ideal view is that silicon density, that silicon investment in-house and both have now says Eric Hall, vice president photonics solves so many would have gone stale,” says added silicon photonics to their of business development at problems,” says Collings. Russ Esmacher, director, design toolkit. The companies Aurrion. “When that is enabled “But even when you decide packet optical sales at Cisco consider using silicon photonics on silicon photonics, much to use silicon photonics, Systems. for any new product design and will come out of that, not only there is a whole pile of issues assess its merits against their better instantiations of existing - packaging, testing and Cisco acquired silicon existing technologies. products but the development electronics - that need to play photonics start-up Lightwire of new, more complex designs.” into the solution that are not and the resulting CPAK gave Finisar backs VCSELs for the Aurrion has demonstrated a CMOS-centric.” it a year’s time-to-market installed base of multi-mode 4x25 Gig WDM design. advantage, says Esmacher: “It fibre and believes indium “When I first got involved in also helped us tremendously in phosphide DML lasers are best Mellanox, which acquired silicon photonics, I perceived terms of power consumption.” suited for 10 Gig single-mode Kotura, is another using silicon that it was an opportunity to Cisco went from a 100 Gig line transceivers. “All those millions photonics for WDM in the data drive a different cost structure,” card to a 400 Gig one while of units that are sold using centre. It is a founding member says Carter who, before joining keeping the power consumption DMLs; nobody needs a new of the OpenOptics MSA. “It [the Oclaro, was at Cisco when it fixed, despite moving to a 400 technology to make those MSA] supports more narrow bought Lightwire.”I’m a little bit Gig NPU and four 100GBASE- parts,” says Eng. line spacing, and scales to maturer now in my thinking.” LR4 CPAKs. eight and 16 channels,” says Where silicon photonics is Arlon Martin, senior director, “The performance is there, it is “We ship product, and to ship, starting to show an advantage marketing at Mellanox. “We now a manufacturing question,” you need to have product is for multi-channel designs think that is an interesting play says Facebook’s Schmidtke. differentiation against a pretty and where a channel speed at 400 Gigabit.” Mellanox is also Silicon photonics benefits from competitive landscape,” says of greater than 25 Gig speeds using silicon photonics for 100 volume, and the volume is Brian Welch, Luxtera’s director is needed, says Eng. Here Gig PSM4. here with the large data centre of product marketing. “There silicon photonics competes with requirements. Moreover, she are indium phosphide directly indium phosphide modulators Challenges expects to see that level of modulated lasers (DMLs) on and PAM-4 modulation. Finisar Indium phosphide specialist manufacturing maturity proven one side and VCSELs on the has demonstrated a silicon Oclaro has not stated any in the coming year. other, and you need to take photonics single-channel silicon photonics product plans both on.” transceiver operating at 50 Gig. but says once the performance If Schmidtke is right, silicon and cost gets to a level it photonics will no longer need to Luxtera looked to WDM for Teraxion has shown a 100 Gig needs, it will consider using the state its case as early as ECOC product differentiation but found silicon photonics transceiver technology. 2016.

www.opticalconnectionsnews.com 17 MELLANOX DRIVES - PER DANIELSEN Mellanox drives interconnects beyond 100 Gbps Mellanox Technologies is already delivering 100GE services but, supported by ingenious silicon photonics technology, its interconnect solutions are now set to increase data centre efficiency further, Per Danielsen reports.

Today the Danish design centre is an essential part of Mellanox, which is the sole vendor that can deliver end-to-end solutions for short-range communication including adapters, switches, Per Danielsen software and copper and optical cables. Other vendors have to rely on switching chips from oday, Mellanox can Broadcom, but Mellanox has deliver up 100 Gigabit their own chips for switching, Ethernet, but the which can secure low power technology is ready and low latency. forT even higher speeds due to an advanced silicon photonics Normally, when a small Danish optical interconnect technology. tech-company is acquired by an After two acquisitions, Israel- international company it is scaled based Mellanox can not only down or closed, which was Wafer close up notch. (IPxx3X4) deliver InfiniBand and Ethernet the case when Intel acquired adapters and switches for GIGA. In this case the Danish internal silicon photonics meters. For leaf connections up servers and storage, but team was scaled up. But it is not fabric. Mellanox have all the to 20-30 meters, optical cables also deliver transceivers and possible to hire enough skilled critical technologies in-house, can be used, while on longer active cables for short range IC-designers in Denmark, so with chips customised to the distances WDM or parallel communications in data centres. Mellanox has recently opened specific solutions.” connections are necessary. a new design centre in Holland. Mellanox has expanded their Today Mellanox in Denmark has “100 Gbps is typical with 4 Mellanox can deliver all portfolio by acquiring Kotura, a 29 IC designers employed, with channels, but we are ready for technologies using the developer of advanced silicon 6 in placed in Holland, next platform with up to 800 QSFP form factor; making is photonics optical interconnect Gbps and beyond”, concludes extreme simple to reconfigure technology for high-speed Beyond 100 Gbps Henning Lysdal. the network if necessary. A networking applications, and Today the Danish team is Mellanox chip can also drive a IPtronics in 2013. working on next generation 100 The chips are made in a cable up to several meters. Gbps implemented as 4x25 BiCMOS process from ST IPtronics was founded by Gbps. At ECOC, in Valencia, Microelectronics, that has a About Mellanox a number of former Intel Mellanox will demonstrate a transit frequency of 300 GHz. Mellanox Technologies is a employees, who was working 100 Gbps Ethernet solution. Bipolar technology has been supplier of end-to-end on designing chips for long demonstrated with transit InfiniBand and Ethernet reach SONET and SDH “100+ Gbps is on the way, frequencies up to 700 to 1000 interconnect solutions and systems. The background but WDM is expensive today GHz, so there is a roadmap for services for servers and for the Intel design centre in due to special selected faster electronics. storage. Mellanox interconnect Denmark was the acquisition of lasers with a very low yield. solutions increase data centre the Danish chip design house Each laser must be mounted Another hidden advantage efficiency by providing the GIGA, who was designing chips separately. It can be a very is that Mellenox is using highest throughput and lowest for 10 Gbps optical transmission costly solution if you need the 1550 nm wavelengths, latency, delivering data faster systems. Having left Intel, three 16 special selected lasers. corresponding to the C-band to applications and unlocking former employees founded Mellanox has an integrated in telecommunications system. system performance IPtronics, specialising in chips platform, so it will not be more The advantage of the C-band is capability. Mellanox offers a for short range communication. expensive to expand to 16 that the wavelengths a placed choice of fast interconnect channels”, explains Henning closer than in the 1300 nm products: adapters, switches, One of the first products from Lysdal, Vice President of Active wavelength range. Mellanox software, cables and silicon IPtronics was a 4x10 Gbps Interconnect Engineering. He has demonstrated more than that accelerate application VCSEL driver for 40 Gbps continued “Today you can find 80 channels in the C-band. runtime and maximize Ethernet. It is still on the market 100 Gigabit multimode VCSEL business results for a wide and is still shipping very well; solutions, but when moving Multitude of technologies range of markets including especially in China. The number toward Terabit, our solution A data centre needs cables in high performance computing, of chips produced has now seems more obvious. We various lengths. From a server enterprise data centres, Web passed 10 million. are one of the few vendors to the top of the rack, a copper 2.0, cloud, storage and on the market that has an cable is sufficient up to 3 financial services.

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DEMANDING MARKETS - JOHN WILLIAMSON Gigabit PONs tune up for demanding markets Various formats of gigabit passive optical networks are generating a lot of interest and sales in traffic-heavy markets across the globe, whether the driver is HDTV or overburdened data center interconnects, John Williamson reports.

(HDTV), mobile backhaul and market drivers for NG-PON2 from different vendors will work wireless Local Area Network in terms of extra capacities together. This underscores the (WLAN) coverage extension. required. Mersh reckons the importance for service providers actual and forecast growth of of an internationally established According to Robin Mersh, video and HDTV is an important and recognised G-PON CEO of the Broadband Forum consideration. His colleague, interoperability certification (BBF), the particular ambitions BBF’s Director of Strategic process. John Williamson and circumstances of particular Planning, Mark Fishburn, puts service providers will influence the data center interconnect at The most prominent of these the take-up of technology such the centre of the equation. is the BBF’s BBF.247 G-PON as XG-PON1 as opposed to Optical Network Unit (ONU) ne of the undoubted their plumping for the faster Meantime, Geoff Burke, Senior Certification Program. In that success stories NG-PON2. “It’s a question of if Director of Corporate Marketing certification is currently open to of the fibre-based you have to move fast versus if at Calix, believes symmetrical XG-PON1 products, and the broadband you have a little more leeway,” business services and mobile expectation is that XG-PON1 Oaccess market is the Gigabit he reasons. “Added to this, if backhaul will fuel demand for certified ONUs will be available Passive Optical Network everyone knows that the next NG-PON2 bandwidth. And none “very soon”. BBF laboratory test (G-PON). According to a version is coming up, then it’s not of these suggestions excludes plans are also evolving to include Broadbandtrends LLC estimate, surprising that some will wait.” any of the others. NG-PON2. the value of global G-PON systems sales hit nearly $5 NG-PON2 readies for the However, it has been argued that And coming down the billion in 2014. But while big time NG-PON2’s flexibility could be turnpike… demand for the 2.5 Gbits/s And the waiting for NG-PON2 more of a draw than its increased Although these are early days in downstream/1.25 Gbits/s looks to be ending, with certain bandwidth. “It’s a multiple the commercialisation process upstream technology is likely to products already announced by wavelength solution that provides of NG-PON2, there is some remain buoyant for the medium the like of contractors such as a lot more flexibility,” observes industry consensus that the term, newer applications and Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent, Calix Inc Burke. “This flexibility has the technology could significantly changing market dynamics and Huawei, and trials reportedly potential to open up a number of boost the ongoing migration have stoked demand for higher carried out by service providers different avenues for expanding of fibre to the network edge. speed G-PON solutions. Into in Asia, Europe and North the market.” For Mersh the seemingly the breach have stepped print America. unstoppable advance of fibre screen. For its part, the FSAN in its towards the end user and Propelled along by the efforts of literature has notes that, “TWDM- the consumer is one of the Next generation the Full Service Access Network PON does not excel in any one defining characteristics of the Standardised in 2010 according (FSAN) interest group and the performance metric but provides contemporary networking to the ITU G.987 Series ITU-T standards organisation, a good balance of attributes business. Recommendation, the XG-PON1 NG-PON2 is standardised as for mass market residential protocol is based on a Time the G.989 series. NG-PON2’s broadband applications. It In this context, Burke believes Division Multiplexing-PON (TDM- primary technology is Time and offers good performance advances in high speed copper PON) architecture. Delivering 10 Wavelength Division Multiplexing, with reasonable cost, using technologies such as Very-high- Gbits/s of shared downstream with up to eight Point-to-Point components mature enough to bitrate Digital Subscriber Line 2 bandwidth and 2.5 Gbits/s of WDM overlay channels. The meet the NG-PON2 timescales.” (VDSL2) and G.fast access to upstream bandwidth, XG-PON1 basic deliverable data rate subscriber terminals (G.fast) will is designed to be compatible capability of the multi-wavelength Let’s work together be very complementary to with existing access networks access standard is up to 40 But for the NG-PON2 NG-PON2. In general he reckons and hardware. Gbits/s downstream (4 x 10 opportunity to really take off, a improved copper technologies Gbits/s on different wavelengths number of prerequisites must be have the potential to widen the XG-PON1 has made a showing on the same fibre) and up to met. Equipment interoperability is appeal of true fibre connectivity, in some markets – notably 10 Gbits/s upstream, with a crucial for service providers both and act as a stepping stone to Asia. Its proponents say it is a doubling to 80 Gbits/s and 20 in terms of them cost-effectively full fibre. In particular he cites suitable candidate for a number Gbits/s respectively in extended building multi-vendor networks G.fast installations serving of applications, including the iterations. Symmetrical services and shortening times-to-market Multiple Dwelling Units (MDUs) provision of higher speed can also be deployed. for new services. However, that require higher backhaul residential and SOHO/small for a number of reasons speeds than today’s 2.5 G-PON business broadband access, There is some debate about adherence to a standard does or point-to-point Gigabit Ethernet the delivery of High-Definition TV what constitutes the main not guarantee that products can provide.

20 ISSUE 5 | Q3 2015 "Acacia is shipping the 400Gb/s AC400, a Flexible Rate, Dual Carrier, Coherent Transceiver for applications including DCI, Metro, Long Haul and Submarine"

- Flex modes include 200G, 300G and 400G capacity enabled by QPSK, 8 QAM and 16 QAM modulation formats - Low power and low cost achieved by leveraging CMOS compatible processes for both electronics and optics

For more information: John LoMedico 1.978.938.4896 x307 www.acacia-inc.com [email protected] PON SET FOR RECORD LEVELS

PON optics set for ‘record levels’ this year as market grows

This year will break the records for sales and deployment of PON- related optics and systems reached in 2014, writes Julie Kunstler, Principal Analyst, Components and Intelligent Networks at Ovum.

to represent just over 12% of 2014). include new country-wide FTTx of the total OLT transceiver • FTTx network builds by plans in the heavily-populated market in 2020 with 10G EPON many operators throughout countries of India, Brazil and OLTs representing the largest the world such as MSOs Indonesia. New plans in these segment within next-gen PON. in North America, Google countries would provide a Fiber, US telcos, operators significant uptick to add to the JULIE KUNSTLER The total ONT transceiver and in Europe, the Middle East, units forecast and consequently BOSA market is forecast to South and Central America to revenues. exceed 71 million units sold in and selected countries in assive optical 2015, an increase of 18% from Africa. For example, a potential uptick network-related optics 2014. The ONT transceiver/ • Bandwidth marketing craze to revenues would come from reached record levels BOSA market will then decline with various CSPs moving to faster deployments of next- of installation in 2014 slowly over the forecast period. 1G, 2G and even 10G FTTH gen PON since the ASPs for Pbut those records are expected NextgenONT transceivers/ service offerings particularly next-gen PON optics are higher to be broken again this year BOSAs are forecast to in Japan, Hong Kong, than those for non-next gen. as demand for PON optical represent just over 9% of Singapore and the US. While 10G PON has been slow components remains very the total ONT transceiver/ • The movement away from to ramp, we are now seeing strong. Ovum’s forecasts for BOSA market in 2020 with FTTB to FTTP/FTTH which deployments of 10G PON by optical line terminal OLT and 10/1 and 10/10 EPON ONTs uses requires more ONTs several cable operators in the ONT transceivers and BOSAs representing the largest and therefore more ONT US and by several telcos in are shown in Figures 1 and 2 segment within next-gen PON. optics. Asia Pacific. In addition, we below. Each figure segments • The use of PON for non- are seeing lab trials of TWDM the market by next-gen PON, Several key themes are driving residential customers PON and even initial field including 10G EPON, 10G the PON optics market, and applications such as deployments. GPON and TWDM PON and by according to Ovum’s analysis. services to enterprises non-next gen PON, including The PON optical component and small-medium-sized The largest potential downside BPON, EPON and GPON. forecast is currently strong businesses along with to the forecast could come due to a combination of the support for MBH (mobile from a slowdown in FTTx Total OLT transceiver sales following: backhaul) for internal needs deployments by the Chinese are forecast to reach 6.5 and/or for wholesaling. operators. China is the single million units in 2015, an • Major continued Arising from these points and largest consumer of PON increase of 19% over 2014. deployments by China data, there are several potential optics in the world and any The OLT transceiver market Telecom and China Unicom upsides and downsides to slowdown would negatively will then decline slowly over along with China Mobile’s both unit sales and revenues. impact the forecast. However, the forecast period. Next-gen entry into the FTTx market Ovum’s PON optical we believe that China’s newest OLT transceivers are forecast (which began in the 2nd half components forecast does not operator entrant into FTTx, China Mobile, is well positioned to deploy an FTTx network, OLTs - non 10G OLTs - 10G and TWDM Total bring existing mobile customers 7,000 onto its new wireline broadband network and offer additional 6,000 services.

5,000 Positive factors for China Mobile include: 4,000 • Strong cash and bank 3,000 deposits – China Mobile

Units (000s) reported more than $74bn in 2,000 cash-equivalents and bank deposits on June 30, 2014. 1,000 • Large existing subscriber base – China Mobile has 0 more than 800 million 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 subscribers and its subscriber base is growing. PON OLT transceiver forecast, 2012 – 2020. Image supplied by Ovum. This provides a large

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ONTs/BOSAs - non 10G ONTs/BOSAs - 10G and TWDM Total

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base upon which to offer 50,000 additional services, such as data-intensive broadband 40,000 applications. 30,000

• Plenty of room for growth in Units (000s) FTTx subscriber market in 20,000 China –reaching even 30% FTTx household penetration 10,000 in China will require massive effort by all three major telco 0 operators, given China’s 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 large population and size. • FMC (fixed-mobile PON ONT transceiver/BOSA forecast, 2012 – 2020. Image supplied by Ovum. convergence) – China Mobile could decide to use its FTTx M2M largely entails wireless partnerships, particularly component, and equipment network to support mobile connectivity, wireline in the gaming market, can expertise. backhaul, thereby saving broadband connectivity plays be expanded to wireline Bottom line – only time will tell capex as mobile data traffic a supporting role in many broadband networks, how close Ovum’s newest continues to grow. vertical M2M applications, enabling an even better PON optical component • Extending its existing M2M such as healthcare. customer experience over forecast matches the actual focus – China Mobile is • Expanding OTT partnerships large device screens. market. But early market developing M2M vertical – China Mobile has several • Significant local FTTx indicators are very strong for market solutions. While OTT partnerships. These network building, 2015 and 2016.

www.opticalconnectionsnews.com 23 REFINED FIBRES Refined fibres drive optical networks to new heights Specialised fibres, whether multicore, or doped for specialised performance are supporting higher transmission rates and more energy- efficient networks. Matthew Peach reports.

Dr Marco Petrovich, a senior ORC’s breakthrough was full commercial or academic member of the ORC fibre made possible due to an collaboration with us,” said development team, said, improved understanding of Professor Sir David Payne, “Hollow core photonic fibre properties deriving from Director of the ORC. “But bandgap fibre has only had various new numerical and we wanted to enable any niche applications up until experimental fabrication and organisation to get hold of small this achievement because it characterisation tools recently quantities of a fibre that the ORC Matthew Peach could not be manufactured in developed by Petrovich’s team. has already made or can easily lengths suitable for telecoms make. applications. Not only have “We demonstrated data we successfully made a transmission at 10Gb/s along “As the ORC can now routinely esearchers at photonic bandgap fibre in a a 11km span using direct make fibre that far exceeds Southampton’s telecoms-suitable length, we detection, showing only minor the capabilities of other Optoelectronics have also engineered it to penalties and achieving an commercially-available fibres, the Research Centre have appropriate properties for estimated >15μs latency new ORC service gives external Rhave manufactured a record telecoms applications.” reduction relative to standard organisations access to usable 11km of hollow core photonic fibre,” said Petrovich. “Our samples of these specialised bandgap fibre, a special optical Petrovich and his colleagues numerical models of the fibre fibres quickly and easily.” fibre that until now had only have already demonstrated drawing process give us been possible in lengths of that the fibre has error-free, confidence that much longer Sumitomo develops new some hundreds of meters. The low-latency, direct-detection fibre yields are feasible through multi-core optical fiber fibre, which supports >200nm 10Gbit/s transmission across further scaling of the process, Sumitomo Electric Industries bandwidth with a longitudinally the entire C-Band, which and that much lower loss fibres has developed a multi-core uniform loss of approximately is used for long-distance should ultimately be possible.” optical fiber including eight 5dB/km at 1560nm, has a telecommunications. cores in the standard 125µm 19 cell core and five cladding Next-generation optical cladding suitable for optical ring structure. It was fabricated “We have shown that our fibre now available interconnects, and realized an using a conventional two-stage fibre’s properties are consistent Besides the new hollow ultra-high-density fiber optic stack-and-draw technique. along its entire length.” core photonic bandgap cable with the highest core fibre development, the density ever reported. Optoelectronics Research Centre announced that it is making its To cope with the growing specialized, next-generation fibre data traffic in the short-reach available for general purchase. interconnects used for parallel Fibres available for sampling and processing in supercomputers to purchase include rare-earth- and resource disaggregation doped fibres with ultra-high in data centers, optical dopant concentrations; large interconnect technologies mode area fibres; high bend for broadband high-density radius fibres; multi-trench fibres; transmission are intensively and novel compositions with researched and developed. At extreme aluminium or germanium the same time, the multi-core concentrations. optical fiber (MCF), which has multiple cores in one fiber, has The service will enable the been also intensively researched evaluation of ORC fibres and developed. in products and research programmes at the earliest Sumitomo’s MCF is expected stages of development, helping as a next-generation optical to accelerate performance, fiber that will enable ultra-high- adoption and commercialisation capacity transmission systems. of optical fibre and photonics- Most of the previously-reported Cut-away of a hollow core photonic bandgap fiber is shown neck down, as generated by a fluid dynamics simulation. The approximately 10mm-wide based products. MCF developments permitted preform is drawn down to a slender approximately 0.2mm fiber in a hot furnace the cladding diameter to be under gravity and longitudinal tension. The outer glass is coloured to show “Until this development, the thicker than the standard 125µm temperature (hottest region in white), while the microstructure is colored only way to get fibre from the diameter fibers to increase core to show whether surface tension (blue) or differential pressure (red) forces dominate. Image supplied by University of Southampton. ORC has been as part of a count while achieving optimal

24 ISSUE 5 | Q3 2015 matthEW peach Refined fibres drive optical networks to new heights

A team at Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre manufactured a record 11km of hollow core photonic bandgap fibre. Image supplied by University of Southampton.

optical properties of each core fiber specialized for 1.3µm where space is at a premium. commented, “With their while suppressing core-to-core wavelength band where signal Featuring optimized buffer tubes continued focus on reducing crosstalk. distortion can be suppressed. and jacket rifling specifically costs, our customers can now designed for excellent air-blown capitalize on the installation and The company says it has OFS expands microcable installation performance using cost benefits of MiDia FX cable. developed for the first time an range microducts, MiDia FX Cable can Available with 12 to 144 fibbers MCF with a cladding diameter Diversified fibre optic system boost capacity and fibre density from a full range of OFS of 125µm, and therefore and cable developer OFS is in limited spaces, while cutting application-specific fibbers, equivalent to standard optical continuing to expand its range installation costs. The cable also MiDia FX Cable is the latest fibers. This includes eight cores of microcables with the addition complies with Telecordia GR-20 innovation in OFS’ extensive line with low core-to-core crosstalk. of MiDia FX Cable, which is standard. of OSPcable products, building The new MCF also has optical designed to make fibre cable upon the company’s expertise in characteristics comparable deployment faster and less Pierre Marty, Executive VP Sales the development and expansion to the standard single-mode costly, especially in locations and Marketing for OFS, of microcable technology.”

www.opticalconnectionsnews.com 25 FTTX EMPOWERS APAC FTTx technologies looking set to empower APAC According to a range of market surveys from FTTH Council Asia, iDATE and Ovum, the APAC region is set for strong fibre growth. Kendrick Struthers-Watson reports on the diverse growth rates and technology preferences from China to Australia via Vietnam.

According to the latest data (Japan 100%, Singapore Within this massive region there from FTTH council Asia Pacific 95%, South Korea 95%, Hong is relatively low competition and iDATE, at the end of 2014 Kong 93%, Taiwan 89%) and between other xSDL or cable Kendrick there were 155m subscribers the remaining three, China, networks. Cable companies Struthers-watson in APAC and the Council New Zealand and Malaysia, are less dominating in these anticipates that by 2019 this have 59%, 32% and 26% territories’ broadband markets figure will exceed 174m. respectively. than they are in Europe or The graphic below depicts the USA although, as China he growth of fibre optic the statistical growth of the China has the largest number progresses towards a more across the world is country members of FTTH of subscribers at just less competitive market mode, rampant and nowhere APAC and uses FTTH/B as a than 70m and there is strong SARFT (State Administration of less so than in the Asia measure of Fibre to the Home/ competition between China Radio, Film and Television – the PacificT region which is made up Fibre to the Building. Telecom and China Unicom, national regulator) could be of 15 countries, three of which respectively, with 42m and expected to make progressive have more than 10m FTTH In the top eight countries, five 25m at the end of 2014. changes to this scenario. subscribers (China 68m, Japan now have greater than 85% Although involvement in 26m and South Korea 13m). of total households passed, FTTH/B was not adopted as Interestingly, across the whole early as many of the other APAC region the optical fibre APAC FTTx players, it is today network architecture deployed Take up rate at the main focus for the Chinese is split 23% FTTH and 77% December 2014 APAC December 2014 telcos. FTTB and there is a stark Countries difference on the technology FTTH/B FTTH/B Homes/ FTTH/B Subs/ Next in the ranking is Japan, deployed, with PON at a subscribers (*) Buildings passed Homes Passed which was the historical dominating 98% and Ethernet Australia 289,000 899,345 32% market leader in the region, at just 2%. By the end of although FTTx deployment 2016, it is anticipated that nine China 68,340,000 249,000,000 27% growth has been slowing economies will reach FTTH/B Hong Kong 1,515,000 2,300,000 66% at a low rate with only 4% household penetration of 20% added in 2014. With its or greater and these are: Hong India 689,000 2,072,000 33% 26m total subscribers, NTT, Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Japan’s incumbent provider, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Indonesia 161,000 3,420,000 5% is strong on the wholesale China, Malaysia and Australia. Japan 26,029,000 51,000,000 51% area, but its offering remains complex with different tariffs Vietnam: great potential Malaysia 828,000 1,730,000 48% dependent of the type of One of the member countries New Zealand 75,301 570,221 13% dwelling. Furthermore, users offering the most potential is must subscribe to a telco for Vietnam and, according to the Pakistan 16,900 na 0% a connection line and then to latest figures from a study by Philippines 65,000 300,000 22% a service provider to acquire Ovum, up to 98.8% of homes services. In South Korea, KT there do not yet have a fibre Singapore 708,100 1,150,000 62% is the market leader with 13m connection. The study urged subscribers. telcos to continue the move South Korea 13,053,020 17,500,000 0% away from targeting high- Taiwan 3,120,000 6,840,000 46% According to FTTH Council income earners and focus APAC, there remain several on providing cost-effective Thailand 85,000 1,244,000 7% challenges and drivers for the solutions that are tiered to Vietnam 810,000 na na region where Multi-Dwelling individual and business needs. Units (MDUs) dominate the TOTAL 115,785,021 338,025,566 34.3% residential market in China and In addition to retail broadband FTTH/B(*) it sees a huge potential from solutions, the Ovum study a 550m population across recommended that telcos (*) We refer here to the definition of FTTH/B from the FTTH Council Bangladesh, the Philippines, should consider alternative Growth will exceed 174 million subscribers in 2019 Vietnam and Pakistan. business models such as

26 ISSUE 5 | Q3 2015 KENDRICK STRUTHERS-WATSON FTTx technologies looking set to empower APAC

MICOS TELCOM has been supplying FTTx broadband solutions to its satisﬁ ed customers to 38 countries for 25 years.

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MICOS TELCOM oﬀ ers a convenient connection of integrated solutions with a wide range of compatible products for builders and operators of data and telecommunications networks. All our products are developed and produced

Currently, 98.8% of homes in Vietnam do not have a fibre connection. in the EU and are fully optimized for high standards. We are focused on quality for a compe- providing backhaul bandwidth operators in trying to meet this titive price, fl exibility, service and an individual and connectivity to mobile positive target.” operators, especially those approach to customer needs. MICOS TELCOM venturing into LTE. Overall, the APAC region is solutions comprise a unique range of fi bre optic set for strong fibre growth with In Vietnam, which has a thriving Australia’s nationwide NBN housing and accessories needed in any typical economy and a growing thirst (New Broadband Network) FTTx application. for instant news and video for its 24m population and services, DSL is currently the some incumbents are deeply Contact us to gain acctual off ers: technology of choice with involved in national FTTH/B Phone: +420 582 307 511 4.5m customers connected deployments (Indonesia & in this way and only 280,000 Malaysia) plus there are new E-mail: [email protected] using FTTH services. The entrants emerging across the Web: www.micostelcom.com Vietnamese government has set region. itself a target of achieving 7m OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION BOX OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION BOX broadband subscribers by the In the APAC mobile-centric end of this year and wants this countries fibre can provide figure to rise to more than 19m mobile backhaul for LTE and by 2020. metro/small cell networks as in the case of Worldwide Under the plan, entitled ‘National Vodafone (as a result of its

Telecommunications in 2020’ Cable & Wireless acquisition) ORM 5 URMS 12C

the government sets out a which offers a core network for OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION BOX FTTH MINI SOCKET ORM 1 clear direction to move towards global connectivity solutions fibre as the main source of and a reliable global WAN that deployment. Commenting paves the way for cloud and on this, FTTH Council APAC unified communications. It is Director General, Hasan Munasir reasonable therefore to Choudhury said, “We absolutely conclude that it won’t be too

support this directive and hope long before fibre spans APAC ORU 3 HIGH DENSITY CABINET ORSM 1 our Vietnam workshop in Hanoi as it progresses around the in April was useful to both globe www.micostelcom.com the Vietnam government and

www.opticalconnectionsnews.com 27 FUTURE-PROOF EUROPE

Heading towards a future-proof networked Europe!

Hartwig Tauber, Director General of the FTTH Council Europe, reviews the latest developments in the continent’s FTTH/B marketplace in terms of recent installation levels by country and forecasts from a range of market analysts.

including Russia and Ukraine, is also impressive, with 13.8 European region is set to which would add a further million homes passed at the more than double over the 14.8 million homes to the end of 2014. next five years as the pace of total. Although there were no roll-out has been increasing new countries entering the Yet, a number of European significantly for many countries FTTH Ranking 2014, there is countries are still holding back recently. By 2019, in the Hartwig tauber a notable new momentum in on their fibre roll-outs and are European Union only, the Germany where alternative missing out on the socio- total of FTTH/B subscribers is operators such as Deutsche economic advantages that forecast to be almost 29 million, he creation of a Glasfaser are pushing ahead FTTH can bring. Countries or 14.2 percent of all homes in future-proof European with fibre deployment. The like Austria, Belgium, Czech the EU. Considering the whole communications country will very likely enter Republic or the United European continent, comprising sector is challenging, the next update of our FTTH Kingdom connected fewer than 44 countries from Iceland in the butT this process is undeniably Ranking by reaching the 20,000 new FTTH subscribers west to Russia and Kazakhstan underway, with a significant qualifying threshold of one per during the whole of 2014. As in the east, 62 million increase of fibre subscribers cent of homes subscribing to a matter of fact, much work households are expected to over the last two years. fibre. needs to be done before be FTTH/B subscribers in the Moreover the number of FTTH Europe can be considered a countries covered – this is, and FTTB subscribers in Good progress was also mature market. According to about 19 percent of all homes Europe has increased by 50% reported in countries like Heavy Reading, a country only in the region. over the 12 months ending Spain, Romania, France, reaches fibre maturity when December 2014, according to Netherlands and Portugal. In 20 percent of its households In the next five years, Heavy the latest update to the FTTH Spain, incumbent Telefonica are FTTH/B subscribers. So Reading forecasts that the gap market panorama, prepared by clearly played an important role, far, only nine countries around between the best and the worst analyst firm IDATE for the FTTH overpassing its initial objectives: the world have reached this performers will continue to Council Europe. overall the number of FTTH/B threshold, and only three of increase. In absolute numbers, subscribers in the country them are European, namely Russia is expected to remain the There are now nearly 15 increased by 137 percent Lithuania, Sweden and Latvia. leading market in Europe by the million FTTH/B subscribers year-on-year, reaching a total of end of 2019, with more than 22 on the European continent nearly 1.4 million subscribers. Nonetheless, the number of million FTTH subscribers. France (14.5 million to be exact) - not Fibre deployment in the country FTTH/B subscribers in the is expected to become the second largest market for FTTH after Russia, as incumbent 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% diversified services provider Lithuania Orange plans to cover almost Sweden 60% of all French households Latvia by 2020. Russia Romania As far as penetration is Norway concerned, while a handful Portugal Bulgaria of countries such as Italy and Slovenia the UK will continue to lag far Denmark behind with less than five per Finland cent FTTH/B adoption, most Slovakia of these are also expected to Estonia have passed the 20 percent Luxembourg “fibre maturity” household Netherlands penetration line by 2019. Hungary Ukraine Spain In terms of FTTH/B roll-out, Turkey aggregate expectations are up France Fibre-to-the-home subscribers across Europe compared to EU28 previous years, due to stronger Fibre-to-the-building + Lan subscribers Macedonia than expected build-out in Switzerland key FTTH/B markets such as Czech Republic Italy Portugal, Spain and France, along with an ongoing massive roll-out in Eastern European Household penetration of countries exceeding 1%. Image supplied by IDATE. *Economies with at least 200,000 households markets. Furthermore, a

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Heading towards a future-proof networked Europe!

competitive land-grab in an increasing number of countries coupled with an improving regulatory environment with more collaboration among builders and lower costs should also increase fibre roll-out in the coming years.

This is phenomenal progress, and it proves that FTTH/B is poised to become the mass-market broadband enabling product in Europe. However, while the EU’s Digital Agenda Target (http:// ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda) plans that 50% of Europe’s households should be subscribed It is therefore necessary that avoid a situation in which fibre-access networks to broadband above 100 Mbps decision makers in the Europe reaches its 2020 available to as many European by 2020, there is a high risk Member States take strong broadband targets but realises households as possible is our (which is potentially destructive) measures today to ensure that then that it took the wrong goal, and we are confident that those connections will not be future-proof broadband decisions. Creating a that this is more achievable fibre-based. solutions are implemented, to future-proof Europe based on than ever.

www.opticalconnectionsnews.com 29 TRENDING NOW - GORDON BREBNER

Trending now: Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) are two trends sweeping the communications industry, both offering the promise of reduced capital and operational expenditure, writes Gordon Brebner, Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx.

Software defined; the packet data plane was complex services can be hardware designed pre-determined and, as a delivered using service GORDON BREBNER The Field Programmable Gate consequence, expanding chaining, where multipleVNFs Array (FPGA) is a cost-effective the capability of OpenFlow are used in sequence. and power-efficient technology to control additional network For some current NFV use that offers programmable technologies has led to cases, such as for home he initial thrust of SDN hardware. That is, it can deliver continual modification of the environments, software involved the control the performance of hardware, OpenFlow specification. implementations may be of L2/L3 packet but with the flexibility of software. sufficient to deliver the forwarding, but more The large, and increasing, sizes As SDN becomes more required performance. recentlyT has attracted attention of programmable logic arrays widely adopted, for example However, for other use cases, in the optical networking (for example, the largest Xilinx in optical networking, there such as mobile core networks community with application to UltraScale™ devices now have has been pressure to evolve or content delivery networks, L0/L1 circuit switching for optical over 4,000,000 programmable OpenFlow to extend the higher performance and/or transport. The basic idea is to logic cells) mean that very technologies it targets, the more deterministic latency separate control plane functions complex functions can now be protocols it supports, the may be required. from data plane functions, so implemented. packet headers it recognizes, that the former can reside in and the way in which packets The solution is the use of conventional software running on The diagram shows the Xilinx are processed. The result hardware acceleration for conventional servers. The latter SDNet™ methodology for is a new direction: Protocol time-critical functions. In reside in hardware, due to the implementing a customized Independent Forwarding (PIF). traditional settings, fixed- performance requirements. programmable and high- function accelerators acting performance (e.g., 100 Gbit/sec The essence of PIF is that alongside processors have NFV is a related, newer, area, line rate) packet processing data the underlying data plane been used. However, this where different net working plane. The required functions are model should be based upon approach is counter to the functions are hosted as virtual described in a high-level packet programmable switches, idea of NFV, with its emphasis functions on a standard server, processing specification, which rather than traditional fixed- on virtualization using instead of each being provided does not require the inclusion function switches. There is generic substrates. Instead, by separate pieces of networking of any hardware implementation then an additional operational programmable hardware offers equipment. As in the case of detail. stage, where a switch is – as for SDN – a solution that SDN, NFV is now attracting configured or programmed. combines performance with attention in the optical networking The overall benefit of such a Once this has been done, programmability. Furthermore, community, for example, for methodology is that it bridges the switch is controlled in the programmable hardware Operations, Administration and the gap between the worlds of conventional OpenFlow style. enables service chaining Management (OAM) functions. software and hardware. This With programmable hardware, by allowing the dynamic stems both from a software- the switch programming connection of hardware VNFs In short, SDN and NFV are oriented style of design, and from mechanism is twofold: together in series as required about network programmability software management of the configuration can define the over time. and network optimization resulting hardware data plane architecture of a switch, and respectively, the overall goal during operation. In short, the custom firmware can then add Conclusion being a more elastic and Xilinx programmable hardware further features that vary over Programmable hardware, agile network. In both cases is providing a generic, standard, time. specifically FPGA technology, though, with scale-out from the substrate, in the spirit of both together with a software- original experimental settings, SDN and NFV, and the SDNet Hardware acceleration centric methodology, has the the reliance on software for methodology is then providing for NFV potential to fill the gap providing the programmability ease of use. The basis of NFV is the between processor and flexibility has resulted in Virtualized Network Function performance and required both performance and latency Protocol Independent (VNF), originally perceived as networking performance, limitations. This focuses Forwarding for SDN a software implementation of while also providing the attention back on the underlying The standard OpenFlow control a network function that can flexibility needed for future hardware, and how it can interface was designed with be deployed on a Network SDN data planes and future cooperate with software to existing switch chips in mind. Functions Virtualization NFV virtual network functions provide a complete solution. So, essentially, the nature of Infrastructure. Furthermore, and their chaining.

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ECOC FOCUS

¡Bienvenido a Valencia! ECOC 2015, the 41st edition of ECOC, will be held in Valencia, Spain, from Sunday 27th September to Thursday 1st October. Over 300 exhibitors and 5,500 attendees are expected for ECOC 2015.

he largest This year’s technical be held on Sunday afternoon evolution of the Internet, and convention on optical programme, supervised and will have two sessions of why they will play an ever- communications in by a committee of world two hours each, including a increasing role in tomorrow’s Europe and one of renowned experts and chaired panel for interactive discussion. communication networks. theT most prestigious and long- by distinguished scientists, Participating speakers include standing in the field worldwide, includes over 400 oral and representatives from universities The exhibition’s Market Focus, ECOC 2015 is taking place poster presentations. Hot in Australia, Canada, China, providing attendees with from Sunday 27th September topics include advanced Germany, Italy, Japan, business-focussed market until Thursday 1st October, in modulation formats, data Sweden, UK and USA, plus presentations, will this year Valencia, Spain. centre communications, DSP key organisations like Alcatel cover mass-market broadband post-processing in coherent Lucent, BT, Deutsche Telekom, access, optics in cloud ECOC’s conference systems, network function Ericsson, Facebook, Google, computing, photonic integration provides a pivotal platform virtualization (NFV) and spatial Telecom Italia, Telefónica and and digital silicon photonics, for telecommunications division multiplexing. The Vodafone. service provider optical professionals to deliver programme also includes transmissions, optical network emerging topics, research ‘rising star topics’, like access To celebrate 2015 being the agility and packet optical results and market and in-home networks, International Year of Light, transport. developments. The exhibition, advanced Silicon and InP this year’s event includes which runs from Monday integrated optics, flexgrid and a special commemoration Over the next few pages, 28th to Wednesday 30th superchannels, multicore symposium, ‘Light: Enabling you can find detailed September and is celebrating fibre technologies and MIMO the Global Internet Era’, timetables for the conference, its 20th anniversary, is communications and radio over where distinguished keynote including Sunday workshops a melting point of high fibre technologies for emerging speakers will address and the exhibition Market technology innovation and an 5G. how optical technologies Focus sessions. We have arena for key industry staff to have been responsible also highlighted the key network, exchange ideas and Workshops, open to all for the transformation in manufacturers launching new conduct business. conference registrants, will communications and the products to market at ECOC.

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Monday 28th September Exhibition Floor Morning Session - Mass-market broadband access Start Finish Title Presenter Company

10:25 FTTH Market panorama update Thomas Kallstenius FTTH Council Europe

11:05 FTTH Consumer experience Thomas Kallstenius FTTH Council Europe

11:10 11:40 Moving Toward a More Connected World – What is Next for the Optical Fiber Industry? Christopher Towery Corning Inc

Improving the Business Case for Deep Fiber: Improving Wireless Coverage and 11:45 12:15 Trevor Smith TE Connectivity Capacity over FTTH Networks

Afternoon Session - Data Centres: optics in cloud computing Start Finish Title Presenter Company

12:20 12:50 High Sensitivity APD Receivers for 400GbE links in Data Centre Networks Atul Srivastava NTT Electronics America

12:55 13:25 Data Centres: Optics in the Cloud Jeff Demain Intel

13:30 14:00 Integrated Photonics Enabling Hyperscale Data Centre Optical Modules Azmina Somani Lumentum

OIF's CEI 56G Interfaces – Key Building Blocks for Optics in Next-Generation 400G 14:05 14:35 Ed Frlan OIF Data Centres

14:40 15:10 Next Generation Data Centre interfaces; from 50G to 400G Chris Cole Finisar

Scott Kipp, Chris Cole 15:15 15:45 The 2015 Ethernet Roadmap Ethernet Alliance and Jeff Maki

15:50 16:20 New Technologies Shaping the Future of Data Centre Optical Interconnects Siddharth Sheth Inphi Tuesday 29th September Morning Session - Service provider optical transmission Start Finish Title Presenter Company

10:40 11:10 Evolution of core transport networks Andrew Lord BT

11:15 11:45 SDN Hierarchical Control of Multi-Vendor OTN Networks Emmanuel Sarris Vodafone

11:50 12:20 Metro 100G update Andrew Schmitt IHS/Infonetics

Enhancing IP/Optical Convergence for Service Providers through SDN-enabled 12:25 12:55 Chris Liou Infinera Packet-aware Transport

Scalable 100G/400G Optical Transceiver Technology for Client, DCI and 13:00 13:30 Per Hansen OE Solutions Metro-Access Applications

Christophe Betoule and 13:35 14:05 Gearing up for Transport SDN Deployment – a starter kit for early adopters Orange and Coriant Jonathan Sadler

Achieving lowest cost/bit in metro networks using 100G+ coherent technology 14:10 14:40 Alan Gibbemeyer Acacia combined with Silicon Photonics optics integration Over 300 exhibitors and 5,500 attendees are expected for ECOC 2015. Afternoon Session - Optical network agility / SDN Start Finish Title Presenter Company

14:45 15:15 Dynamism in Optical Layer Victor Lopez Alvarez Telefonica

15:20 15:50 Carrier SDN: centralized traffic engineering in multi-layer networks Dirk van den Borne Juniper Networks

15:55 16:25 Transforming network margin into capacity with Liquid Spectrum David Boertjes Ciena Wednesday 30th September Morning Session - Photonic integration and digital silicon photonics Start Finish Title Presenter Company

10:20 10:50 Evidence of silicon photonics performance advantages Daryl Inniss Ovum

10:55 11:25 Photonic Integration in Indium Phosphide for Metro and Data Centre Interconnects Robert Blum Oclaro

Impact of silicon photonics technology on the global market for optical Lightcounting Market 11:30 12:00 Vladimir G. Kozlov communication products Research

InP or Silicon Photonics or Both? Choosing the right material platform for the 12:05 12:35 Martin Guy Teraxion target application.

12:40 13:10 "Fabless photonic integration trends" Inigo Artundo VLC Photonics S.L.

13:15 13:45 Ecosystem for CMOS photonics low volume production Amit Khanna IMEC

Afternoon Session - Packet optical transport Start Finish Title Presenter Company

13:50 14:20 Transforming Packet Networks with Open Optical Transport Joerg-Peter Elbers ADVA

14:25 14:55 Flexible Optical Network: Evolution of the Packet Optical Transport Platform Mike Sabelhaus Fujitsu

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Conference SUNDAY WORKSHOPS First session: 13:30 - 15:30 Optical technologies for the exascale cloud datacenter era. Coffee Break: 15:30 - 16:00 Organisers: Hercules Avramopoulos National Technical Second session: 16:00 - 18:00 University of Athens, Greece Jeroen Duis TE Connectivity, Netherlands Multimode photonics: optical waveguides, Geert Morthier Ghent University – IMEC, Belgium components and systems. Organisers: Sergio G. Leon-Saval University of Sydney, Australia SDN & NFV: Real value with new business opportunities Marco Santagiustina University of Padova, Italy or research hype with unmanageable complexity? Organisers: Achim Autenrieth ADVA Optical Networking, Germany How should we design optical communication Andrea Di Giglio Telecom Italia, Italy networks with flexible DSP based transceivers? Daniel King Old Dog Consulting, UK Organisers: Benn Thomsen UCL, UK Massimiliano Salsi Juniper Networks, USA Fibre access and core network evolution: what are the next steps towards an integrated end-to-end network? Microwave Photonics Organisers: Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios Telefónica I+D, Spain Organisers: Antonella Bogoni CNIT, Italy Michela Svaluto Moreolo CTTC, Spain Ivana Gasulla Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Marco Ruffini Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Monday 28th September

9:30 to 11:30 PLENARY: MALVARROSA AUDITORIUM

12:30 to 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

SC1. SC2. SC3. SC7. SC4. SC5. 14:00 to 15:45 Photonic Crystal Optical Higher Order Advanced PON Short Reach I Nonlinear Fibres Interconnects Modulations Technologies Transmission

15:30 to 16:15 COFFEE BREAK (ECOC Exhibition)

SC1. SC2. SC3. SC7. SC4. SC5. Multimode Fibre Switching & Clock & Carrier NG-PON2 PMD Short Reach II Elastic Optical 16:15 to 18.00 Technology Multiplexing Recovery Networks Devices

18:15 to 19:30 WELCOME RECEPTION (Conference Centre)

19:30 RUMP SESSION (Conference Centre) Tuesday 29th September

SC3. SC4. SC2. SC5. SC7. SC6. Nonlinear Fourier Data Centres Photodetectors Flexgrid & Advanced Fibres, SDN/NFV 08:45 to 10:30 Transform Based & Receivers Superchannels Monitoring & Communication Remote Powering Techniques

10:30 to 14:00 EXHIBITION ONLY TIME

SC7. SC5. SC1. SC3. SC4. SC6. NG-PON2 TC-Layer Advanced Novel fibres and Coding Switching Intra Data- 14:00 to 15:45 Amplification Devices & Short Reach Centre Networking

15:45 to 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

16:15 to 18:00 POSTER SESSION (Conference Center)

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Wednesday 30th September

Symposium SC1. SC2. SC3. Optical Communications Multicore InP Transmitters Photonic 08:45 to 10:30 and Networks for Fibres Processing Datacenters

10:30 to 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (ECOC Exhibition)

Symposium SC1. SC2. SC3. Optical Communications Fibre Amplifiers Hybrid Phase and Networks for Transmitters Conjugation 11:00 to 12:45 Datacenters Communications and Networks for Datacenters

12:45 to 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

Symposium SC7. SC6. SC3. Light: Enabling the Global Front-Haul Network Phase Sensitive. 14:00 to 15:45 Internet Era Technologies Design Signal Processing

15:45 to 16:15 COFFEE BREAK (Conference Center)

Symposium SC7. SC6. SC5. Light: Enabling the Global Mobile Front-Haul Metro, Backhaul Transmission 16:15 to 17:45 Internet Era & Aggregation Modelling

20:30 GALA DINNER. Hotel Balneario Las Arenas (Room Sofia). Playa de las Arenas.

Thursday 1st October

SC6. SC5. SC7. SC2. SC4. SC3. Multidomain Space-Division Ultra-Dense Modulators Spectral MIMO 08:45 to 10.30 Orchestration Multiplexing WDM PON Processing Equalization

10:30 to 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (Conference Center)

SC6. SC5. SC7. SC2. SC4. SC3. SDN Control of Undersea In-Home Silicon Security & SDM Nonlinear 11:00 to 12:45 Hardware Transmission Systems Photonics Subsystems Compensation Elements & Tolerance

12:45 to 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:15 to 15:30 POSTDEADLINE PAPERS

CLOSING CEREMONY 15:30 to 16:00 MALVARROSA AUDITORIUM

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Network quality and efficiency: From fixed-mobile Fibernet to showcase Futura armoured launch lead convergence to ultra-high speed, from Anritsu Italian connector specialist, Fibernet, are set to showcase their Leading the T&M market for networks infrastructure with Signal new armoured launch lead, the Futura. Quality Analysers, OTDRs and Network Analysers, Anritsu provides a complete range of products for research and development, production test, as well as for installation, commissioning, maintenance and monitoring applications. Telecommunications, Data Centres, Cloud Computing Service Providers, are today focusing efforts and strategies to migrate to much higher transmission speeds together with reduction in power consumption and costs. Anritsu this year introduces unique and innovative test platforms to offer future proven support to all players in Next Generation Networks, High Speed Interconnects, Signal Integrity and evolution to Silicon Photonics.

The Futura is four times smaller than standard launch boxes and can be held in one hand, yet provides a fibre length up to 1,000m. The 3mm armoured pigtail length can be adjusted by the user and Fibernet also provide a soft case, with shoulder strap.

Futura operates with insertion loss (dB) <0.5 and return loss UPC <-50 and APC <-60.

Stand 824

MP1800A Signal Quality Analyser Now Up to 64Gbps Convergence of Standard Committees in IEEE, OIF towards New gulfstream micro-fibre blower by 50Gbps as the next step in high speed interconnects, together Condux International with the adoption of PAM4 modulation to reach 400G, is driving new R&D efforts to achieve transmission quality and efficiency at Condux International announces the latest edition to the the same time, also thanks to the advent of Silicon Photonics. Gulfstream® line of Micro Fibre Blowers – the Gulfstream 150. Anritsu’s MP1800A SQA anticipates these testing needs by Boasting a fibre installation range from 1mm to 2.5mm, evolving to 64Gbps, with the same high signal quality and flexible the GS150 accommodates the most demanding FTTx set of top and unique testing functions which made this product a applications. top leading BERT worldwide! The new 64Gbps Mux and Demux allow PAM4 and Pre-Emphasis generation, and a worldwide unique feature: fully automated Jitter Tolerance testing up to 64Gbps. These high end functions, together with extreme high quality signal and low intrinsic jitter, make MP1800A SQA the top end solution to characterise High Speed Signal Integrity for all applications and standards!

Network Master Flex MT1100A & Pro MT1000A – Redefining Transport Networks Testing Convergence of metro-core and mobile backhaul-fronthaul networks is a major trend driven by the massive growth of data sharing and By utilizing the combination of a single drive wheel, adjustable streaming over mobile devices. Evolution to CFP2, CFP4 and next push force and compressed air, the GS150 achieves QSFP28 optical interfaces allows 100Gbps transmission with significant deployment distances and reduces labour costs. higher efficiency. Anritsu’s Network Master Family Analysers now provide full coverage of CPRI/OBSAI wireline connectivity tests and With a variety of power options, rechargeable battery, DC compatibility with all standard released optical modules, to support / Power-Port Adapter or 220/240V AC, the installer can R&D, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of integrated utilise the most convenient source of power. Stop by for a networks operating from 1.5Mbps to 400Gbps. demonstration.

Stand 212 Stand 526

36 ISSUE 5 | Q3 2015 1G VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Standard LED luminaries featuring LED - lamps, normally used for ligh- data transmission up to 1 Gbps ting purposes, securely transmit data at high speed and low latency even in environments where radio encounters difﬁ culties. The standard RJ45 interface enab- FEATURES les the fast integration into existing networks and the use for diffe- ■ 1 Gbps data rate rent applications like distribution ■ Low latency (< 2 ms) of high-deﬁ nition video streaming ■ Bidirectional communication as well as two-way communication. ■ Off-the-shelf high power LEDs This optical wireless technology can ■ Standard RJ45 interface be used anywhere where wireless LAN is not acceptable or feasible.

DUAL-POLARIZATION COHERENT RECEIVER CHIP WITH INTEGRATED TUNABLE LOCAL OSCILLATOR

DESCRIPTION

HHI´s PolyBoard platform enables the hybrid integration in one chip of Polymer/ InP tunable lasers, photodetectors offering bandwidths of more than 25 GHz, passive struc- tures such as multi - mode interferometers and AWGs, polarization beam splitters and rotators, variable optical attenuators, and thermo - optical switches. Additionally, deeply etched FEATURES U - grooves in the polymer allow passive on- chip ﬁ ber alignment with ■ Up to 35 nm tunable Local ■ Variable optical attenuators coupling losses as low as 0.1 dB. Oscillator with 30 dB dynamic range ■ On - chip polarization beam ■ > 25 GHz InP photodetector splitters and rotators arrays ecOc FOcUs - PRODUCTS

New LC Connector, from FibreFab Gain free access to a wealth of optical communications research, with iEt FibreFab’s QuickFlip™ LC Connector is a new and innovative solution to the polarity reversal problem, re-engineered to provide a simple and easy way to reverse the fi bre’s polarity.

Made of two parts, with a removable front assembly allowing a simple “Remove, Rotate and Reassemble” action to reverse the polarity, the rear of the assembly remains intact and the fi bres undisturbed.

Patch cords are supplied with space reducing 2.4mm round duplex cable. The reduction in cable density allows better visibility of equipment and improved airfl ow.

Connectors are intermateable with all standards compliant LC Duplex adaptors and are available in single mode and multimode for all FibreFab’s pre- terminated assemblies.

StAND 327 IET (the Institution of Engineering and Technology) off ers a range of industry and academic research, insight and comment in the fi eld of optical communications research. Available digitally and in print, their portfolio includes video presentations, seminars and HFCL Group conferences, print and digital books, peer reviewed academic research and digital conference proceedings. HFCL off ers new range of products of dielectric armoured cables in super robust construction to tackle rodent related issues. The StAND 166 designed cable can be used universally for Aerial, ADSS and direct burial applications. The product claims full proof solution against rodents with its dielectric FRP rods acting as strength members and providing protection to the core of the cable. iNNO launch the View series

INNO Instrument unveils the company’s new ARC fusion splicer line – View 7, View 5, and View 3.

The INNO View series carries the industry’s highest magnifi cation of 520X operated by a double-tapping gesture (Zoom in & out) and 5 inch high-resolution colour LCD touch screen with friendly intuitive GUI.

HFCL’s another range of products is Micro Cables with minimum outer diameter to get maximum output of the available slot in ducts. The 144F MT Micro Cable is available with just 7.8mm outer diameter. The outer jacket of Micro Cable is made of HDPE and it is also available with Nylon jacket. The blowing results of these Micro Cables are outstanding. All cables from HFCL are complying with IEC standards and CE approved.

Apart from its diversifi ed range of OFC for various applications, HFCL has recently come up with cost eff ective solutions for View 7, as the top-of-the-line model, provides maximized work short span aerial applications for ISP’s and CATV operators. effi ciency through fast heating time of 13s and ultra-high capacity Do visit us at our stand to understand the benefi ts and cost battery supporting 355 splicing/heating cycles. View 5 is the eff ectiveness of solutions over traditional practices. For more standardized core-alignment fusion splicer suitable for all FTTx fi eld information visit us at www.hfcl.com or write us on our email users. Also, View 3 – Active V-groove fusion splicer – provides the id: [email protected]. most reliable working experience.

StAND 735 StAND 214

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Industry’s First 240 Gbps 24x10G/6x40G/ 2x100G LAN/WAN/OTN/MACsec PHY X240

RS-FEC 2x100GE 2xOTU4 Secured Data MACSec EFEC 6x40GE 6xOTU3 Optical Center 1588 PTP UFEC 24x10GE 24xOTU2 Transport Switch CI-BCH Network

X120 RS-FEC Secured Data 1x100GE 1xOTU4 MACSec EFEC Optical Center 3x40GE 3xOTU3 1588 PTP UFEC Transport Switch 12x10GE 12xOTU2 CI-BCH Network

X240 Evaluation Board

Industry’s highest density and lowest power footprint multi-rate LAN/WAN/MACsec PHY & OTN Framer/Mapper Best performance OTN GFEC/EFEC/UFEC/CI-BCH with proven interoperability IEEE802.1AE MACSec for secured service Carrier Ethernet OAM and 1588 PTP time stamping Best-in-class I/O with performance exceeds industry standards Direct connections to SR/LR/ER/ZR SFP+,DWDM SFP+,QSFP+ , ,, QSFP28, CFP, CFP2 and Direct Attach Copper ECOC FOCUS - PRODUCTS ECOC FOCUS - PRODUCTS

KOC´s New MPO Workshop Lumentum announce CFP4 LR4 transceiver, with 100 GE for up to 10km reach KOC’s new MPO solution is designed for high-density fibre connections and high-speed data centre cabling and provides an economic, highly reliable solution for fibre network systems.

The new MPO reduces the time and effort needed for installations, modifications and maintenance of the network cabling, with fast network deployment and ‘quick fix’ solutions.

The Lumentum 100 G CFP4 LR4 optical transceiver is a full duplex, photonic-integrated optic transceiver that provides a high-speed link with an aggregated data rate of either 103.125 Gbps or 111.81 Gbps over up to 10 km of SMF28. The module complies with the CFP MSA CFP4 Hardware Specification Rev. 1.0, IEEE802.3-2012 Clause 88, IEEE 802.3bm CAUI-4 chip to module electrical standard and ITU-T G.959.1-2012-02.

Stand 102

The cable assemblies are pre-terminated in the factory, so there is no need to splice, cleave or polish when installing and the zinc High-speed, high-density solutions from Molex plated, steel panel cassettes are easily mounted and individually Incorporated and Oplink Communications, LLC packaged for protection. Visitors to this year’s ECOC will be able to meet with industry The pre-terminated MPO ribbon has low IL, RL depending on the experts from Molex and Oplink, who will be showcasing their polishing surface, high temperature stability, excellent durability enhanced amplifier product portfolio at stands 118 and 200. (approximately 200 matings), high reliability and performance quality, and a test report for each cable. Products include a self-controlled Raman amplifier, EDFA-Raman Hybrid, High Power EDFA for CATV and XFP form factor EDFA, the Panels are designed to enable a fibre network to be installed RayXpress® and RayDirector® ROADM photonic engines and a and commissioned in a remarkably quick time and all of the complete portfolio of passive optical components and modules of components are pre-assembled, making them easy to be installed bandwidth creation, amplification and bandwidth management. to the shelf.

The product is available for SC/LC/ST/FC adapter installations and features a 19¨standard structure, with sliding tray design.

Built in accordance with EN 50173-5, ISO IEC 24764, IEC 61754- 7, Telcordia GR-1435 and TIA/EIA 604-5 standards.

Stand 329

LC Uniboot connector, by LightKing

Taiwanese passive OEM, LightKing, recently launched an LC A full range of optical transceiver solutions, including 100G Uniboot connecter, designed with 180° turning and, with no shrink DWDM DD/DSP CFP for data centre interconnect and metro tube needed, a rapid assembly and disassembly process. aggregation applications and 100G QSFP28 for intra- data centre applications, plus several of their latest optical interconnect offerings, such as OptoConnect™ fibre routing enclosures, VersaBeam™ Expanded Beam MT ferule interfaces and high-density LC and MPO optical EMI shielding adapters will be also be displayed.

The combined capabilities and technologies of Molex and Oplink enables Molex to offer a full platform of innovative optical solutions to the world’s leading customers. Oplink is a provider of optical communication components, intelligent modules and subsystems. The company offers integrated design and Light King have over 10 years’ experience in tool design, manufacturing solutions to leading and emerging global network component development and manufacturing, providing total equipment makers serving multiple markets in optical transport solutions for diverse products, like patchcords, adaptors, and aggregation, wireless and wireline access, and fast connectors, PLC’s, MPO’s and MTP’s. growing data centres.

Stand 204. Stand 118 and 200.

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OptoTest introduce Integrating Sphere AquaKleen™ from Polywater

OptoTest recently launched the OP-SPHR Integrating Sphere, a cost-effective solution for testing fibres terminated with high- density connectors.

The AquaKleen™, water-based fibre cleaner is formulated for cleaning fibre and end faces. Its excellent wetting reaches precision parts to lift dust, buffer gel, lint, finger prints, and oils.

The screw-on design can be implemented into new or existing AquaKleen™ contains innovative, water-based technology and a test systems, accommodating up to 72 fibres and can be used special blend of 94% ultra-pure deionized water with proprietary with all OptoTest 1mm and 3mm detector designs. The detector- solvents, leaves no residue. An environmentally desirable cleaner, mountable OP-SPHR requires no calibration, significantly reducing AquaKleen(tm) is non-flammable and has low toxicity for safe maintenance and cost. use. Products are packaged in easy-to-use drop bottles that allow for precision cleaning applications, waste reduction and limit Stand 512 contamination. Also available in litter bottles for mass cleaning. STAND 832 OPTOKON showcase new OTDR TSL-550, Santec’s new tunable laser

Tunable lasers are an integral part of optical test systems to measure insertion loss, isolation, polarization dependence, wavelength dependence and reflectivity of optical components. As experts in tunable laser technology, Santec built the world’s first commercially available external cavity tunable laser back in 1987. This year they introduce their latest model tunable laser, the TSL-550. Innovation in tunable laser resonator design in the TSL-550 results in lower optical ASE for extraordinarily high signal-to-noise ratio of over 90dB/0.1nm, while maintaining a high output power of over +10dBm. The TSL-550 features key advances in testing speed, resolution, accuracy and dynamic range, raising confidence and lowering costs of component OPTOKON will launch a new OTDR , mini mower meter and light verification. Equipped as standard with fine tuning and coherence source, at this year’s ECOC. The new PM-215 series provides an control, the TSL-550 is fully programmable, making it a must have tool enhanced display, with backlight function and utilises Bluetooth for precision optical testing. wireless and USB control, enabling measurements to be taken and used in Android smartphone applications. Recent innovation in photonic technology has expanded the requirements for tunable lasers for component testing. Advances STAND 742 in silicon photonics, ROADM (reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers) designs and thin film coatings require test equipment that can characterize multi-port systems, steep filter transfer functions and high extinction ratio devices. The TSL-550 addresses these needs, 6000n all-optical protection services switch, in addition to improved production inspection throughput by doubling from Polatis the scan repetition rate over conventional lasers. Santec also makes a suite of optical test instrumentation that when combined with the TSL- All-optical switch specialist Polatis has launched the Polatis 6000n 550 provides turnkey solutions for measurement of WDL and PDL. Protection Services Switch (PSS) for protection against fibre layer network failure. The PSS is designed to be a compact and cost- effective alternative to the 1+1 protection switch modules used in multiservice provisioning platforms to create redundant network paths for wavelength and dark fibre services.

The PSS is based on Polatis’ DirectLight all-optical switch The TSL-550 models cover the tuning range 1260-1680nm and technology. Switch and restoration times are better than 30ms is available in two versions: Type A, the standard, cost effective even with simultaneous events on all 16 paths, which ensures that version includes a wavelength meter with +/-30pm wavelength higher layer network equipment will not experience service accuracy while Type C features an absolute wavelength accuracy interruption due to fibre line degradation or failure. of less than 5pm.

Stand 331 STAND 335

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Sanwa showcase MPO series and LC dust tektronix announce 70 GHz real-time oscilloscope protection adapter series with industry best signal fi delity MPO SERIES. Tektronix, Inc., announced the DPO70000SX 70 GHz ATI Sanwa’s MPO connector series adds the latest in MPO performance oscilloscope featuring the lowest-noise and highest technology to their broad line of passive fi bre optic components, eff ective bits of any ultra-high bandwidth real-time oscilloscope providing quality and reliability, from ferrules only to an entire available on the market. The new oscilloscope incorporates a assembly in a 12 port model (with 24 and 48 models coming range of innovations that enable it to more eff ectively meet the soon). current and future needs of engineers and scientists developing high-speed coherent optical systems or performing leading-edge All MPO components are manufactured in-house, using advanced research. manufacturing systems which incorporate the latest in injection molding technology with fully state-of-the-art assembly and test procedures. This in-house manufacturing process allows Sanwa to cater for the most specifi c custom requirements.

Key innovations delivered in the DPO70000SX ATI performance oscilloscope include:

World’s fi rst 70 GHz real-time oscilloscope with Tektronix’ patented Asynchronous Time Interleaving (ATI) technology that preserves signal-to-noise ratio for higher fi delity. This means that users can more accurately capture and measure their signals at higher speeds than possible with any other oscilloscope available today.

LC DUST PROTECTION ADAPTER SERIES. Impressive 200 GS/s sample rate with 5 ps/sample resolution for The company’s LC series has been designed with metal plates on improved resolution and timing. all sides of the adapter that expand to tightly fi t into the panel and provide a secure, vibration-resistant fi t. They are available in slim- Compact form factor that enables the instrument to be positioned pack duplex and quad models, with an optional dust protection very close to the device under test (DUT) while providing fl exible shutter that will cover the entire coupling hole. The shutter opens display and control for analysis. Reducing the distance to the DUT automatically as the LC connector is inserted and closes as it is enables shorter cable lengths which in turn help to preserve signal extracted, providing a barrier against dust and protecting workers’ fi delity at very high frequencies. eyes from laser exposure.

STAND 538.

Sumix release Next Generation MAX Interferometers Sumix Corporation recently announced the offi cial release of their Sumix MAX™ Interferometers series; the fi rst USB 3.0 Interferometers on the market and fastest ever released by Sumix.

The most scalable oscilloscope system on the market featuring Tektronix’ patent pending UltraSync architecture that provides precise data synchronization and convenient operation of multi-unit systems. Precise multi-channel timing synchronization is key to meeting acquisition requirements in applications such as 100G and faster coherent optical modulation analysis.

“For advanced applications like coherent optical, wideband radar and high-energy physics, customers need more from their oscilloscope than just raw bandwidth,” said Brian Reich, general manager Performance Oscilloscopes, Tektronix. “Looking at the full range of customer needs drove us to look beyond banner The devices off er easy connector insertion, are capable of testing specs to drive important innovations in the DPO70000SX 70 GHz single-fi bre patch cords and pigtails, bare ferrules and fi bres, MT ATI Performance Oscilloscope around signal fi delity, fl exibility and ferrules and MTP/MPO patch cords, and deliver USB 3.0 speed scalability. We see many of these innovations as having long-term with high-resolution and high-contrast. infl uence on oscilloscope architectures.”

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