NBN Co, Australia’s wholesale open-access broadband provider, has completed a successful proof of concept of Infinera's XR optics-based point-to-multipoint coherent optical technology.
The trial demonstrated XR optics’ compatibility within the nbn Transit Network, a DWDM network spanning over 65,000 km across Australia. The trial highlighted the ability of XR optics to dramatically simplify transport network architecture while reducing CapEx and OpEx across diverse applications.
Providing multiple 100 Gb/s of capacity efficiently subdivided into discrete subcarriers, XR optics enables dynamic capacity management and optical capacity optimization. This demonstration was designed to inform how NBN Co considers options to evolve its transport network to support growing data demands in the future.
Ray Owen, Chief Technology Officer at NBN Co
The nbn Transit Network is our national backbone, supporting the growing data needs of Australians as they rely more on broadband for their work, education, social and entertainment needs. It is important that we keep track of new innovations to guide how we evolve our network to help meet changing needs in the future.
Dave Welch, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-founder, Infinera
This trial with NBN Co provides a proof point illustrating how Infinera’s digital subcarrier-powered XR optics can be seamlessly integrated into existing networks and successfully applied in a variety of network applications from backhaul networks to data center interconnect.
