Telia Carrier announced that the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Facebook completed a successful trial of 100G and 200G using Voyager gear on its 1,089km Stockholm to Hamburg route, leveraging technology developed by Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled end-to-end packet optical networking and DCI solutions.
Significantly, this demonstrates that 16QAM signalling works effectively over long distances. To help make the world more open and to connect the unconnected, Facebook has contributed Voyager, the industry´s first “white box” transponder and routing solution that will be made available to those in the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). TIP’s mission of reimagining the traditional approach to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure aligns with Telia Carrier’s “Carrier Declarations”, as the company continues to challenge everything, grow its own network organically and be at the forefront of innovation.
Larger and more agile networks are needed to stay ahead of the oncoming tide of virtual reality (VR), streaming video, gaming and other bandwidth intensive applications, said Telia Carrier. To assist other telecom infrastructure companies in providing access to the worldwide web, Telia Company, the parent company of Telia Carrier and TIP partner, supported Telia Carrier in conducting the test of the Voyager solution and shared the results with other member companies.
The test, carried out in early March, shows that decoupled Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transponder systems are a low cost, low power option, with sufficient flexibility and accessibility for service providers to leverage within their existing networks. Telia Carrier, with TIP, Facebook and Coriant are all working together to reach the goal of disaggregating the hardware and software components of the network stack to unleash the full power of connectivity, for everyone.
Mattias Fridstrom, Chief Evangelist, Telia Carrier
Telia Carrier is a long-time partner of Facebook, having built and managed the multi-terabit optical network connecting their data center in Sweden to multiple exchange points throughout Europe. Like TIP and Facebook, we stand for openness and transparency for everyone looking to connect to the wider world around them.
J.C. Fahmy, VP of Product Management and Business Development, Data Center Solutions, Coriant
The emergence of packet switching/routing white boxes like Voyager opens up the potential for more open, more programmable, and more cost-disruptive network architectures, and we are excited to be teaming with TIP to extend our LightIP networking software to Voyager.
