INDUSTRY FOCUS TOP PRODUCTS 2022
2022 has been an outstanding year for innovation, particularly in the areas of decreasing component footprints and interoperability. Here, we list just a few. They are not listed in any particular order, but we think each product will, in its own way, have a significant impact on some aspect of the optical communications industry in the coming year and beyond.
SENKO’S DOUBLE DENSITY CONNECTOR
undergoing an infrastructure transformation, requiring higher speeds, greater scalability, and higher levels of reliability to better meet the demands of business. As speed and performance needs increase, optical transceivers, once considered a generic component of fibre channel switching technologies, have become an integral part of overall system design as they allow organisations to connect more devices and build larger fabrics while
Senko launched its next generation duplex optical fibre connector designed for high density applications, which doubles transceiver face plate density. The connectors can be used for next generation transceivers including SFP-DD, QSFP-DD and OSFPVSFF. The compact design of Senko’s Very Small Form Factor (VSFF) duplex SN® fibre connectors allow significant space-saving in data centre and telecom applications. The company says data centres are
utilising less space. The SN® interface allows for greater optical connectivity density on the switch while still having the reliability of the industry standard LC connector.
NOKIA’S UNIVERSAL OLT Nokia announced
ADVA’S AUTOTUNE TRANSCEIVER
pending distance optimisation technology, the device also extends 25Gbps DWDM reach to 40km, and its G.metro auto-tuning technology reduces provisioning efforts and simplifies operations. The AccessWave25™ pluggable is host-agnostic and with a standardised SFP28 form factor, it enables operators to connect switches, routers and other devices to DWDM open line systems. With full C-band tuneable interfaces and G.metro self-tuning capabilities, the device reduces set-up time, minimises human error and delivers operational cost savings.
ADVA launched AccessWave25™, a device which the company says will enable network operators to easily migrate their 10Gbps access infrastructure to 25Gbps connectivity without a significant increase in footprint or major changes to the existing optical layer. The pluggable device is aimed at higher bandwidth services in mobile X-Haul, cable access and wholesale networks. Operators can slot the AccessWave25™ into any standard-based SFP28 port for a capacity upgrade without replacing existing demarcation or aggregation devices. Using patent-
what it claims is the world’s first Generation 6 OLT (Optical Line Terminal), designed, says the company, for a ‘fibre- for-everything’ world where fibre broadband networks evolve to become a single infrastructure for all services. The Lightspan MF-14 platform is already in trials with Frontier Communications in the US and CityFibre in the UK. Based on a new,
advanced hardware and disaggregated software design, the MF- 14 is claimed to be the highest capacity platform in the industry and the only solution ready for mass delivery of 25G, 50G and 100G PON services. It’s also the industry’s first OLT with
the six-nines availability and sub-millisecond latency. The Lightspan MF-14 platform, which extends the upper end of Nokia’s fibre broadband portfolio, was premiered at the Network X event in Amsterdam from 18 to 20 October.
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