infinera infinite capacity engine
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Infinera’s Infinitecapacityengine(ICE)
Gazettabyte March2016
Insummary:Infinera’s InfiniteCapacityEngine
• Next-generationPICandFlexCoherentDSP-ASICdeliverupto2.4terabitcapacityandunprecedentedreach• ThisisthefirstofseveralICEs,tailoredforparticularmarkets• Infinera claims:• ThelatestPICreducesthepowerintermsofgigabit/Wattby70%comparedtoitscurrent500-gigabitPIC• Theoveralltotalcostofownershipis53%lower• TheICEpowerconsumptionis82%lowerthanacomparablenon-PIC-basedDWDMsystem
Infinera’s generationsof opto-electronic sub-system
2005• 10 channels,10Gbps each• 130nmIC(noncoherent)
2011• 10 channels,50Gbpseach
• FlexCoherent40nm
• 16Gbaud
2016InfiniteCapacityEngine• 12-channels,• 50-200Gbpseach• FlexCoherent 28nm• 33Gbaud
AdvancedCoherentToolkitenabledbytheICE
InfiniteCapacityEngine:modulationandreach
Variousvendors'datacentreinterconnect(DCI)line-sidecapacitynormalisedto1RackUnit
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