Researchers from Japan-based NICT (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology), Nokia Bell Labs, and Prysmian Group had demonstrated the transmission of 1 petabit per second over a multimode fiber. This is the highest transmission rate achieved on a single-core multimode optical fiber.

Huawei announced it will further upgrade its Optical Networking 2.0 (ON2.0) solution at Huawei’s 7th Optical Network Innovation Forum, which featuring new speed, new sites, new smart O&M, new schema, and new services. This solution will help operators develop innovative services and thrive.

An interoperability test of the telecom industry’s most dense and spectrally-efficient 400GbE transport solution with the high-density native 400GbE router has been accomplished by the equipment solutions provider Ciena and the software solution provider Arista. The test lays the groundwork for ubiquitous high-bandwidth connectivity in global networks.

ZTE has successfully completed the tests on its IP+Optical solutions along with China Mobile. The pilot Projects conducted in five Chinese cities tested the capabilities of ZTE’s SDN based IP+Optical solutions. ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has designed and developed SDN-based IP+Optical solution, together with China Mobile Research…