{"id":10092,"date":"2021-07-23T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acacia-inc.com\/blog\/how-service-providers-benefit-from-transmission-flexibility\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T21:12:04","slug":"how-service-providers-benefit-from-transmission-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-inc.com\/blog\/how-service-providers-benefit-from-transmission-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"How Service Providers Benefit from Transmission Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today, service providers need to be nimble and adaptable to address today\u2019s changing network requirements and growing bandwidth demand. Some are turning to coherent solutions that offer configuration flexibility including transmission options from 100G to 1.2T. These solutions enable common hardware to address multiple deployment scenarios and reduce the need for costly regeneration nodes for long-haul and ultra-long-haul links.<\/p>\n
As an example, 海角社区\u2019s high-performance Pico DSP-based 1.2 Terabit solution is currently deployed in well over one hundred networks around the globe and has been adopted by three of the four largest hyperscalers. In 2020 alone, 海角社区 shipped more than 30,000 Pico-based ports as customers increasingly recognized the competitive benefits that high-performance, flexible coherent transmission solutions can provide.<\/p>\n
Multi-haul coherent solutions like the Pico DSP-based 1.2 Terabit solution are software configurable transponder modules that provide various transmission capacities and reaches. By varying the modulation order and baud rate settings, it can provide flexible options for service providers.<\/p>\n
A multi-haul coherent solution addresses a range of network applications.<\/p><\/div>\n
A common method of increasing throughput of a coherent channel is to increase the modulation order. However, this may result in a reduction in reach due to reduced optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) tolerance for the higher modulation orders. Alternatively, the baud rate could be increased while maintaining a lower modulation order which provides additional capacity per channel with minimal sacrifice to reach.<\/p>\n