Infinera and LightRiver have jointly announced the completion of a multi-vendor interoperability technology demonstration. This demonstration utilises capabilities of the new generation of coherent pluggable solutions. The primary goal of this demonstration is to validate the potential enhancements in network efficiency enabled by network orchestration. Moreover, the demonstration also showcases ability of this approach to facilitate the introduction of new high-speed business services
The demonstration is based on Infinera’s ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggable technology and LightRiver’s netFLEX transport domain orchestration and control software combined with Infinera’s intelligent pluggables manager (IPM) software, providing multi-vendor network automation.
The new multi-vendor demonstration illustrates how LightRiver’s netFLEX along with Infinera’s IPM can enable network operation of multi-vendor networks leveraging the efficiencies of intelligent coherent pluggable solutions in conjunction with the new generation of routers and FTTX PON (fibre-to-the-x / passive optical network) solutions. The demonstration includes Infinera’s ICE-X line of intelligent coherent pluggables deployed in third-party host devices, including routers from Juniper Networks operating over a Smartoptics open ROADM (reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer) system and the FTTX PON solution.
The demonstration serves as validation for network operators on the capabilities of leveraging coherent pluggables. These capabilities lead to notable enhancements in network efficiencies and a potential expansion of network capacity by up to 40 times. This advancement enables provision of new high-speed business services. Notably, these services can now reach remote rural areas that have been underserved until now. This expansion is inclusive of areas covered by single-fibre FTTX PON infrastructures
“This demonstration highlights how disruptive and comprehensive technologies like Infinera’s ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggable solution provides network operators visibility to the optical layer of their network that was previously missing to deliver an accurate view to streamline operations,” says Tom Burns, general manager of optical modules and coherent solutions group at Infinera. “Infinera remains committed to delivering industry-leading open optical networking solutions, and we are proud to collaborate with LightRiver and other industry vendors to validate that these multi-layered disaggregated solutions can be rapidly deployed and managed.”
“Illustrating the power of LightRiver’s netFLEX network automation platform alongside Infinera’s ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggable technology is a great opportunity for our companies to show how collectively we can help network operators improve efficiency and speeds,” adds Matt Briley, SVP of global sales and network solutions engineering at LightRiver. “Specifically, this multi-vendor integration showcases how next-gen network operators can achieve higher performance with fewer resources by leveraging automation and collaboration.”
Infinera and LightRiver will exhibit their joint solution at Fibre Connect 2023, held August 20-23, 2023, at the Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee, Florida.
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