Edgecore announced that it has completed a field trial of its Open Packet Transponder, Cassini, at Telefónica del Peru, and the solution is deployed in the Open Optical & Packet Transport Live Demo at Cablelabs.
The Open Optical & Packet Transport group is a project group within the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) that works on the definition of open technologies, architectures, and interfaces in optical and IP Networking.
The tests were performed on the production optical transport network operated by Telefónica del Perú, where channels were reserved for alien wavelengths and established without affecting existing production traffic. Cassini was successfully operated at 200Gbps over a distance of more than 600 km, and at 100Gbps over a distance of more than 1,200 km with successful packet stress testing results.
Edgecore's Cassini, integrates 100GbE L2/L3 switching with L1 optical transport functions as line-card modules, and covers data center interconnect, metro, and access backhaul use cases. Cassini is an open optical packet transponder (OOPT) whose design was contributed to the TIP. Edgecore claims that Cassini is the industry's highest capacity and first modular open packet transponder, offering a flexible mix of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) packet switching ports and 100/200 Gbps coherent optical interfaces for data center interconnect, service provider metro, and backhaul use cases. Cassini reduces network operator costs and allows for a choice of optical and software technology.
