Nokia is announcing a comprehensive set of new optical transport solutions optimized for metro edge deployments for CSPs, webscalers and enterprise customers. These will efficiently address growing network capacity demand in metro access and edge, while supporting the delivery of new high-speed services with application-optimized, compact and integrated solutions.
James Watt, Head of Nokia’s Optical Business, said: “Users of networks – whether consumers or businesses – are becoming ever more demanding in terms of the capacity, speed and quality of network services. This is a challenge for network operators and one which Nokia helps them conquer with our expansion of our market-leading optical network solutions for the core – such as C+L and PSE-6s – with the introduction of new solutions to bring more scale, performance and service versatility for the metro edge.”
The Metro Edge
The metro edge is the new frontier in optical networking with capacity drivers creating new bottlenecks. These include massive fiber rollouts to homes and businesses, 5G services, and increased deployment of x-PON systems.
Further increases in bandwidth at the metro edge and in data center interconnection (DCI) speed and capacity are predictable with applications like edge computing and analytics and AI/machine learning arriving simultaneously.
In response, Nokia is helping network operators scale bandwidth and support faster service speeds, with a range of new solutions all optimized for metro edge applications.
Portfolio Expansion
Nokia is expanding its portfolio by introducing:
- New pluggable coherent optics to include 100Gb/s, 400Gb/s and 800Gb/s transceivers;
- New 100G pluggable coherent transceivers to bring the performance of coherent optics to the metro edge into existing 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) ports;
- An expansion of its sixth-generation Photonic Service Engine family with the PSE-6 Compact to power new 800Gb/s coherent transceivers. PSE-6c brings pluggability, scale and lower power per bit in industry-standard formats for 800ZR/ZR+ and OpenROADM applications; and,
- A new 400G Multihaul transceiver with high optical launch power in QSFP-DD format to extend its current range of 400Gb/s pluggable coherent optics, providing a complete set of solutions for 400ZR/ZR+ applications.
Nokia’s pluggable coherent optics can be deployed across a wide range of platforms for optical transport, IP routing, and PON applications.
New Service Cards
Also assisting with scale to the network edge, Nokia is introducing new compact 1RU service management cards for its flagship 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) family of optical transport platforms.
These new service cards can be deployed in a new 1830 PSS-4II compact optical transport platform optimized for metro edge applications, which brings added scale, supports both DC and AC power options, and offers extended temperature range operation for outdoor deployments.
The 1830 PSS-4II supports the broad range of cards available across the 1830 PSS family, enabling the common end-to-end operations, services, security and automation that network operators rely on elsewhere in their network.