Telstra, Ericsson and Ciena recently announced the successful commercial launch of wavelength services based on 400G technology.
This achievement significantly increases Telstra’s network capacity whilst reducing power consumption, footprint and time to market for customers.
With this upgrade Telstra is now able to deliver 400G wavelengths in its optical transmission network and between data centres, providing for an enhanced customer experience. This upgrade responds to the unprecedented capacity requirements that have been seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring Telstra can quickly and efficiently scale the core network capacity to meet capacity uplifts, whilst preparing Telstra’s network for the next generation of technology demands, including those from 5G, network slicing and edge compute.
The higher bandwidth services can now quickly be delivered with a single card, offering on-demand capacity, from 100G up to 400G. This upgrade increases Telstra's optical network capacity by 400% per wavelength, allowing Telstra to deliver high capacity services to its customers in a shorter period of time as well as the ability to quickly and efficiently scale the transmission network for future needs.
This upgrade coincides with the successful trials in Telstra’s live network in August to deliver 800G wavelengths between two metropolitan data centres, paving the way for even further efficiencies and additional bandwidth for Telstra's transmission network. Building on this success, 700G per wavelength was also achieved between Melbourne and Sydney during that trial – a distance of greater than 1,000km.
Chris Meissner, Transport, IP Core & Edge Engineering Telstra Executive
Telstra’s network is geared for 5G, cloud computing, and applications like edge-computing, and this is a significant and fundamental upgrade to the hidden infrastructure that powers our business across Australia.
Emilio Romeo, Head of Ericsson Australia and New Zealand
This critical infrastructure capability forms the foundation of Telstra’s current and future network requirements and ensures Telstra can achieve transmission cost efficiencies and scale to meet the traffic demands that come with media rich and next generation services including 5G and edge compute services.
