ECI and SURF, the Dutch National Research and Education Network (NREN), this week announced a successful trial of the company’s TM1200 1.2T dual channel, programmable blade.
The companies established a super high speed, 1650km link connecting SURF’s main facility in Amsterdam with CERN’s communication center in Geneva. The trial demonstrated Apollo’s ability to support live traffic of 300 Gbps per wavelength over predominantly old (G.655) fibers, traversing 22 intermediate nodes without any signal regeneration or RAMAN amplification. Link capacity was increased by roughly 150% by optimizing line-rate modulation.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s most respected research institutes. Established in 1954, it operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory just North of Geneva. The CERN supercollider generates many terabits of data per day, which SURF collects and distributes to Dutch research and education facilities for analysis, investigation and learning. However, CERN is but one of the nearly 200 institutions and more than 1 million users SURF caters to, today.
Rob Smets, Network Architect, SURF
We were pleased to discover we could improve link capacity and efficiency by approximately 150% just by replacing the card, even on our ‘old’ (G.655) fibers.
Christian Erbe, VP Sales EMEA, ECI
We understand that today’s operators are under pressure to squeeze the most out of their network infrastructures. Optical backbones will forever be required to support, and exceed, simple low cost per bit transport.
