FX Networks Choose Infinera DTN-X for New Zealand Fiber Optic Network

Infinera, the owner and operator of a national selection of the Infinera DTN-X platform for its national wide network. With the features of 500 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) long haul super-channels, the Infinera DTN0-X platform is able to build a new network infrastructure which delivers 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services to service providers and research and education networks.

FX Network, which is already operating a national inter-city optical transport network, has partnered with REANZ. New Zeanland's Research and Education Network, to build this new multi-terabit infrastructure. The agreement between the two parties includes joint investment and fiber sharing and should improve the ability of researchers and scientists across New Zealand to participate in data-intensive experiments, both with New Zealand and around the world.

The high capacity network also will benefit the existing and future business and ISP customers of FX Network via the availability of the 10GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE services the network will support. Indiana says the DTN-X's super-channel capabilities, supported via its 500-Gbps photogenic integrated circuits (PICs), and intelligent software control will provide both high capacity and rapid service turn up.

"We are seeing burgeoning demand for high speed data services in New Zealand, impacted by the growing trend towards the use of cloud-based services and an insatiable demand for content from customers of the ISP's that rely on our backhaul services, " said David Heald, CEO at FX Network. "We expect this to continue and accelerate with the ongoing deployment f Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) access services throughout most of New Zealand. The deployment of Infinera's DTN-X platform is a crucial part of our strategy to provide unintended, reliable, cost-effective data services between New Zealand's UFB Point of Interconnect, which are becoming the key locations for data aggregation in New Zealand."

"The partnership with FX Networks to deploy this massive optical network across New Zealand is a significant change in this country," said Steve Cotter, CEO of REANNZ. "With the Infinera supper-channels we will be able to offer up to 100GbE services providing our scientific community with the fasters network technology available today, putting them on a level playing field with the rest of the world."

"Infinera is pleased to work with our in-country partner Dimension Data to deliver and support this multi-terabit optical networks across New Zealand for FX Networks and REANNZ," said Andrew Bond Webster, VP Sales, APPAC, for Infinera. "The Intelligent Transport Network offers differentiated services while reducing operating costs through scale, multi-layer convergence and automation, enabling high-capacity services to be delivered quickly throughout the country."

The 100G Industry Chain Still Needs To Improve

FiberStore news, with the outbreak of emerging businesses such as high-definition video, social games, cloud computing and Internet of things, explosive growth of Internet content, so that the needs of next generation of Ethernet is increasing. Although the 40G/100G standards have been promulgated, the demand is also constantly stimulated, operators also verified the 100G with a commercial ability, but its scale popularity seems to have a distance, especially for 100G. What is the reason hindering the popularization, in technically what need to improve? When can really go the way of 100G?

The too high cost hinders 100G popularity And market maturity needs 3 years

China Telecom Technology Committee Director Wei Leping said, to achieve the scale of promotion, the cost of 100G applications should be controlled at as 5-6 times as the cost of 10G, there is a certain distance currently. Ruijie experts said, from the point of the cost of optical transceiver, 100G module costs several times higher than the cost of 10G transceiver. It also requires the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain complement each other, continue working hard in chip integration, integration of optical module miniaturization and system design, to achieve cost reduction of the overall product. In addition, the architecture design of network manufacturers are also important factors, the role of the scale cost reduction such as supporting cables, wiring and tools also can not be ignored.

Overall, the 40G and 100G markets are in the early stage of market, but in contrast, the growth rate of 40G is faster than 100G, for example, Ruijie has made a considerable number of 40G commercial cases.

While the 100G standard has completed, but there are still not small challenges in the core of the optical module/high-speed signal processing technology, 100G commercial products also just launched by manufacturers. Therefore, experts believe that, the mature of 100G market is expected to take at least three years.

As we all know, the optical module technology cost is the key of the whole 100G system cost. But the 100G optical module devices are mainly controlled by foreign companies, although there are some Chinese enterprises introduced the 100G optical modules, but the quantity is too small, which virtually increases the 100G system cost.

There are still defects in technical and need to further improve the industrial chain

The 100G industrial chain including chip, optical devices, router to optical transmission system, and even the deployment, but the current situation is that, in the fiber optic module, the high-end core technology are basically controlled by foreign countries. Many experts said, the Chinese module makers have not domestic semiconductor chip production technology,  no continuous wavelength tunable lasers and high-end modulator chip, the manufacturer can do 100G optical devices is rare. Although there are more and more manufacturers to join this camp now, but many companies just re-processing of imported products, the lack of core technology, so there is no competition.

In addition to the short supply and not enough maturity of chip, optical devices and so on, some experts pointed out, the 100G industry chain supporting needs to be further improved, not only because the 100G optical network construction was just started, but also because the development of the 100G still faces challenges from the technology and market, for example, still exist cognitive gap in the line, construction, adjusting and testing, industry chain parties need to work together.

40/100G complement each other

Demand determines the market. From the current applications, in addition to some large data centers, the vast majority applications do not need the 100G bandwidth now, the bandwidth of 40G is sufficient; while the 40G products are more cost-effective than 100G products, and is expected to last a period of time, so the 40G products develop more smoothly than 100G in the moment. But apparently, the scene requires higher performance is relatively urgent demand for 100G, typical scenes such as super computing, cluster computing, etc. In the future, 40G and 100G will complement each other, service users in different application scenarios.

Coriant Targets at India 100G Market

Summary: Newly formed Coriant company will enter the India maket in September this year. This company is not really a novice in this market, it is formed by the separated fiber optic network business from Nokia Siemens Networks jointing with Marin Equity Partners.

June 5 news, the newly formed Coriant company will enter the India market in September this year, the company is actually not a green hand in the market, because it is previously formed by Marin Equity Partners jointing with the separated fiber optic network business. Coriant will focus on meeting the needs of India’s expected 100G, company senior vice president of customer operations Mikko Lavanti said it is currently being developing the requirements of India carries for 100G. The company has now successfully entered more than 100 countries’ market, with more than two thousand employees and thousands of patents.

Data collection services in India is only in its infancy, it is foreseeable that the India telecom providers are currently just beginning to adopt 100G service. For example, Idea Cellular recently announced Huawei will help deploy 100G; Reliance Communications in Collaboration with Ciena has finished part of 100G deployment of the former. Coriant thinks their unique advantage is the focus on the fiber optic network. Lavanti represents “Coriant will mainly focus on fiber optic transmission, and in addition we are also one of the few of block zero debt and profitable company in the field. Coupled with the heritage the senior engineering tradition of the Nokia Siemens, we believe that our advantages in the fiber optic network have been highlighted.”

Ownership changes will also lead the variation of company’s operations means: NSN has primarily focused on mobile broadband, means fiber optic transmission is not included within the critical core areas. Lavanti explained, “We are now more flexible in mode of operation by providing a vary wide range of fiber optic solutions, customers no longer need to painstakingly search through the mobile market which can help solve the problems of its fiber optic suppliers.

Coriant will actively cooperate with public and private sectors, striving to meet the needs of local and neighboring fiber needs. In the India market, the company will complete with Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, etc.

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