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in
the
European
Union-supported
collaborative research and development
project ModeGap," said Bera Palsdottir,
manager of Incubation Center OFS
Denmark.
"The fibers have been tested by our
business partners at ModeGap, already
resulting in several publications, with the
demonstration of transmission of 57.6 terabit
per second using 6 spatial modes being the
most impressive result thus far.”
Long-distance trial
The optical transport equipment vendor
ECI Telecom has announced that its Apollo
OMLT packet-optical transport platform
has successfully transmitted 100Gbps
coherent traffic between Tel Aviv and Bari,
Italy, a round trip of 4,600km. The coherent
transmission, part of a trial in conjunction
with the Tera Santa Consortium, used Bezeq
International’s Jonah submarine fiber cable
network.
The Tera Santa Consortium aims to
develop the world’s first terabit orthogonal
frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
based fiber optic network. The trial was
part of the consortium’s research into
long-distance adaptive coherent channel
behavior. It also demonstrated the
robustness of the soft-decision forward error
correction (SD-FEC) technology the Apollo
OMLT employs, ECI asserts.
Eran Dariel, general manager, portfolio
business, at ECI Telecom, commented:
“The 100G channels from the Apollo
OMLT allow submarine cable operators to
increase significantly the network capacity
over expensive links with minimal network
adjustment. ECI already deployed and
trialled 100G solutions in various customer
networks and now we also displayed our
capability over submarine cables.”
ECI is a founding member of the Tera Santa
Consortium. Other members include Finisar
Corp’s Israeli subsidiary, Orckit-Corrigent,
MultiPhy,
Optiway,
Civcom,
Bezeq
International, the Technion Israel Institute
of Technology, Ben-Gurion University, the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan
University, and Tel-Aviv University.
New fiber packages
Toshiba Corporation has launched fiber
optic transmission modules capable of
sending and receiving signals from DC to
500kb per second with low consumption
current up to a maximum distance of
10m using APF (all plastic fiber). They
are an addition to its Toslink™ fiber optic
transmission device line-up.
A newly developed high-luminosity LED
allows the new products to be driven at a
lower current than existing products. Also,
while existing products consume the same
current, regardless of whether the module