Nokia and Orange recently announced the completion of a network trial using the Nokia PSE-Vs, its fifth generation super coherent optics.
This trial successfully validates Orange’s network capability to increase its optical capacity to support end-to-end 400Gbps services across its network.
With this field trial, Orange has successfully validated a planned upgrade of its long-haul backbone networks to support new high-bandwidth 400Gbps services, and the ability to scale fiber capacity up to 600Gbps.
This represents an increase in spectral efficiency by 50% compared to prior technologies on its long distance network. The trial was performed in real-world conditions using Nokia PSE-Vs super coherent optics in production-ready optical transport hardware, just 16 months after the lab prototype trial done on Orange’s live network.
Orange and Nokia demonstrated error-free performance at a data rate of 600Gbps over a 914km network between Paris and Biarritz, under challenging live network conditions. The fiber network consisted of 13 spans of Orange’s existing network, through multiple cascaded reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplers (ROADM), using 100GHz WDM spectrum channels.
