THROUGH 100GET, ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING HELPS DEFINE PATH TO
100GBIT/S IN THE METRO
ADVA Optical Networking heads metro-focused group
in European public/private research initiative
Norcross, Georgia, USA and Martinsried/Munich, Germany.
June 10, 2008. ADVA Optical Networking today announced that the
company is heading a group of university and enterprise partners in
developing standards-based, carrier-class metropolitan Ethernet
transport networks that cost-effectively deliver data transport
speeds of 100 Gigabits per second (100Gbit/s). The metro-focused
group is one of four in the "100GET" (GET=Gigabit Ethernet Transport)
innovation initiative that is scheduled to continue until 2010 and
receive total public and private investment of more than EUR 200
million. The primary goal of the project is to develop a 100Gbit/s
muxponder prototype for the metro area. Further plans call for ADVA
Optical Networking's systems to enable a 100Gbit/s demonstrator at
Berlin's Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz
Institute (www.hhi.fraunhofer.de), as well as in the OCTET (Open
Environment for Advanced Carrier Ethernet Technologies) field testbed
from Deutsche Telekom. Additional field trials are planned.
"ADVA Optical Networking's real-world, global market experience with
the unique challenges and requirements in the metro is invaluable to
100GET," said Hans-Joachim Grallert, Managing Director of Fraunhofer
Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin and Professor at the Technical
University of Berlin. "Collaborative research and grid computing in
the research-and-education community is creating the first demands
for 100Gbit/s, but any projection of metro bandwidth need shows that
this unprecedented level of bandwidth is obviously on the horizon
across carrier and enterprise networking. The 100GET project is
proactively addressing this reality by bringing together thought
leaders in the optical-networking community to develop technologies,
components and methods that cost-effectively deliver new levels of
transmission capacity, security and service quality. ADVA Optical
Networking is an important member of our team."
Government agencies in Finland, France, Germany and Sweden are
helping fund 100GET (www.celtic-initiative.org/Projects/100GET/),
which launched in 2007 with the participation of ADVA Optical
Networking and about 30 other companies, research organizations and
universities. Goals include defining a complete, system-integrated
telecommunications solution for transmitting high-quality, 100Gbit/s
services at lowest cost-and, ultimately, driving associated standards
through organizations such as the International Telecommunication
Union-Standardization (ITU-T), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The
100GET collaborators will create a test bed open to European
suppliers.
Ongoing growth in bandwidth-hungry services such as grid computing,
telemedicine, storage, e-commerce and video-based consumer broadband
continues to expand capacity requirements across global networks.
Global Internet traffic grew by 57 percent between mid 2006 and mid
2007, according to CELTIC, the European research-and-development
consortium that is orchestrating 100GET. Consequently, network
operators are preparing their optical infrastructures to scale beyond
today's 10Gbit/s and 40Gbit/s capabilities.
"We are already seeing questions about 100Gbit/s networking in every
request for proposal we receive from large network operators today,"
said Christoph Glingener, chief technology officer of ADVA Optical
Networking. "It is our responsibility to our customers to help ensure
they are able to gracefully and affordably adopt 100Gbit/s Packet
Optical Transport capabilities when they are ready to do so. Our
carrier and enterprise customers must not be stranded with legacy WDM
(wavelength division multiplexing) gear, 10Gbit/s systems or ROADMs
(reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers) that fail to
interoperate with new, higher-capacity solutions. Our investment and
participation in 100GET and our internal development of 100Gbit/s are
outgrowths of this responsibility."
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