Media travels at 600 Gbps for 600 km journey
Nokia has successfully tested a 600 Gbps line rate on Telekom Serbia and MTEL’s optical transport network over the 600km between Banja Luka and Belgrade. The test used Nokia’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS), powered by its PSE-Vs chipset. This lays the foundation for tomorrow’s low latency, high-capacity traffic, said Nokia. In future the telco will be able to run 100GE and 400GE services.
“We are proud [to have helped] Telekom Serbia maintain market leadership in telecom services and content in Balkan region,” said Nicolas Almendro, Nokia’s European Optical Networks VP.
In the trial over the MTEL-Telekom Serbia live traffic network, Nokia achieved a 600Gbps line performance over a 600 km path consisting in 6 spans, through C-F ROADM nodes. By operating over spectrally efficient 100GHz WDM channels, Telekom Serbia and MTEL can max out its capacity, performance and operational efficiency while lowering the network’s running costs, said Nokia.
In addition to the long range city to city connections, Telekom Serbia will use the 1830 PSS equipment range (PSS-16 and PSS-8x) in two new regional rings. These will form the basis of scalable networks based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) for the impending needs of its residential and business customers.
“We are continuing to invest in WDM technology to serve low latency and agility [in the teeth of] demanding data traffic patterns,” said Telekom Serbia CTO Djordje Marovic.