Alcatel-Lucent introduced a commercial 400 Gbps chip for fiber optic networks, the...
Alcatel-Lucent introduced a commercial 400 Gbps chip for fiber optic networks, the company said Tuesday. The chip, the Photonic Service Engine, offers double capacity and four times the speed of other networks, it said. The PSE will “bring substantial improvements…
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to 100G coherent optical networks” and will lay “the foundation for the smooth migration to 400G networks in the future,” the company said. The chip is designed to be used in a family of line cards in the Alcatel-Lucent 1830 Photonic Service Switch, which is used in more than 120 networks today.