AT&T completes network trial (USA)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Successful completion of a live network environment field trial of 100-Gigabit backbone network technology has been announced by telco AT&T. new Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System was field tested by AT&T during the trial.
Ixia’s K2†100 Gigabit traffic generator and analyzer along with the Opnext 100 Gigabit CFP client side modules has also been used AT&T. A single-carrier 100G transmission with real-time coherent processing on a 900-km long-haul transport link between Louisiana and Florida has been demonstrated in the trial.
The deployment of 4G network technology was completed by AT&T in 2008 in its US IP backbone network. A team was led by the company in 2008 and 2009 that completed two lab trials of 100G technology, expected to be ready for commercial deployment over the next few years.
Wavelength, real-time, coherent 127G PM-QPSK modem was demonstrated by Opnext during the trials. Opnext’s fully IEEE 802.3ba standards-compliant CFP MSA client optical modules which are fully interoperable with 100 GbE interfaces on IP routers were also included in te demonstration.
