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Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that Dr. Yuanqiu Luo, Huawei's top optical access technology expert, was appointed an editor for physical-layer standards in NG-PON2. The Full Service Access Network (FSAN) working group – formed by major telecommunications service providers and system vendors to work on fiber to the home architectures – has identified TWDM-PON as the primary solution for NG-PON2, which contributes significantly to the advancement in the field of NG-PON2 standardization.

In September 2011, Huawei released a 40G-GPON prototype built on TWDM-PON, which amply demonstrated its feasibility and application potential.

ZTE Corp. is showing off what it asserts is the first multi-application 400-Gbps/1-Tbps DWDM prototype device at the 16th WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking Forum in Monaco this week.

The device can perform seven network applications via a variety of modulation formats, ZTE asserts. For example, the DWDM prototype offers a multi-subcarrier orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) 400G/1T approach for ultra-long-haul applications. It also can serve metro applications via a 16-QAM approach, or long-haul applications as a Nyquist WDM platform.

At 100 Gbps, ZTE the DWDM/Optical Transport Network (OTN) system supports C-band 80-wavelength applications via PM-QPSK and coherent detection and soft-decision forward error correction (FEC).

“ZTE is fully prepared to deploy solutions, products, and services for the large-scale commercial global rollout of 100G and ultra-100G,” said ZTE Bearer Network Product Line General Manager Chen Yufei.

Italian telecom and datacom provider Infracom is upgrading its metro and access networks with the installation of the Ekinops 360 transport system, the French systems house has announced.

Infracom is based in Verona, and has branches throughout Italy, including Milan, Florence, Imola, and Rome. The provider offers communications, networking, and ICT services, including managed and outsourced services, to companies in a variety of industries. Its 9,000-km fiber-optic backbone network connects major cities throughout the country.

Infracom has installed the Ekinops 360 platform to achieve more efficient and cost-effective service delivery, according to the vendor. The Ekinops 360 transport system provides CWDM and DWDM in a single platform, enabling Infracom to bring a wider variety of services, including Ethernet and Fibre Channel, to its customers.

"We are committed to constantly upgrading our infrastructures in order to provide better and more efficient services to our customers. We were looking for a more robust and scalable metro and access solution and we found that in the Ekinops 360," said Roberto Grazzini, CIO, Network and DataCenters, for Infracom. "It is a very optimized solution that allows us to enlarge our offering to enterprises and service providers. Moreover, the responsiveness and support from Ekinops has been excellent."

To manage its network, Infracom is using the Ekinops MPSN (Multi-Protocol and Service Network management software) which provides a single platform for management of all service types and rates delivered by the Ekinops 360. The MPSN is both a network and service layer management application that simplifies network monitoring and diagnostics by correlating key network information to services in the network, Ekinops says.

BTI Systems touts Asian success

Metro optical transport platform provider BTI Systems has announced a pair of customer wins in Asia, one in Malaysia and the other in Vietnam.

In Malaysia, wholesale operator Fiberail has increased its deployment of BTI's Integrated Services Delivery Platforms -- specifically, the BTI 7000 Series -- to support mobile backhaul and Carrier Ethernet business services as well as "international interconnect" services to Thailand and Singapore. The deployment came as Fiberail expanded to provide metro Ethernet services to operators and financial service organizations, which complements the three fiber-optic networks Fiberall uses to deliver voice, data, and video capabilities countrywide. Fiberail has 5000 km of fiber-optic cable along the railways and gas pipeline corridor passing through almost all major towns in Malaysia.

The network now includes both the 7000 Series and 700 Series, which in particular enables Fiberail to supply end-to-end, low-latency mobile backhaul services.

"We continue to be impressed with BTI's solutions, as we build out our Mobile Backhaul and metro Ethernet capabilities," said a corporate spokesperson at Fiberail. "We chose BTI for this important network expansion as their solutions uniquely deliver very low latencies, interoperability with other vendors, and a cost-effective 'pay as we grow' approach. We are able to move quickly to leverage new opportunities as BTI's solutions are easy to deploy and scale, providing us with a strong competitive edge."

In Vietnam, Hanoi Telecom Corp. has selected BTI’s 700 Series with the proNX Service Manager to enable it to provide cost-effective, rapid delivery of Ethernet business services to its enterprise customers throughout the country. In partnership with Escom Co., Ltd, a value added distributor and solutions provider, Hanoi Telecom has integrated the 700 Series into its DWDM network to deploy its new metroE platform cost effectively, while accelerating the provisioning of Ethernet services to businesses from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City and across 25 other cities.