Semi Conductor Components Push Packet-Optical Transport Market

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

Packet optical transport networks are used to ensure an ultra high level of performance and secure connection. Organizations also depend on network intelligence optimization systems, complete with Network Packet Broker functionality to better use analytics, security and WAN acceleration tools.

Network packet brokers (NPBs) like VSS Monitoring’s (News - Alert) suite of NPB appliances, for example, delivers a fabric-system approach for enhancing scalability and link-layer visibility, as well as operational performance, across multiple locations. Its vSeries products offer great tool efficiency and ROI.

Carriers today use packet-optical transport across their networks. The service brings the advantage of Sonet/SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy), dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and packet-based networks, delivering a scalable and resilient transport infrastructure.

A recent report found that packet-optical transport used in the core of network provides a highly reliable long distance connection. According to the report, semiconductor components will help drive the packet optical transport market.

The report sees great possibilities for telecom equipment vendors to work with vendors that can show market leading performance and integration at 10 Gbit/s, 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s, with a clear roadmap to 400G within one to two years.

A great variety of integrated system on chip (SoC) solutions at 10 Gbit/s, 40 Gbit/s and now 100 Gbit/s, are available to support a complex mix of interfaces, functionality and performance.

With these solutions, telecom equipment manufacturers can develop highly integrated reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADM (News - Alert)), P-OTP and micro OTP (u-OTP) systems that address carriers' requirements.

Among these solutions, 100G packet-optical chips and lower speed derivatives enable a new class of packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTP). Highly integrated SoC devices for 10/20G, 40/60G and 100G integrate flexible I/O, OTN framer/mapper, enhanced FECs and TDM/packet switching.

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