Windstream Wholesale and Nokia Achieve 800GE Service Readiness With 800Gb/s Long-haul Transport on a Single Wavelength
Windstream Wholesale (Windstream), an optical technology leader in fast and flexible advanced solutions, and Nokia Corporation (Nokia), a B2B technology innovation leader, today announced the successful trial of 800 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) service transmission over a single 800 Gb/s wavelength on an over 1,386-kilometer link across Windstream’s live network.
- Windstream Wholesale (Windstream), an optical technology leader in fast and flexible advanced solutions, and Nokia Corporation (Nokia), a B2B technology innovation leader, today announced the successful trial of 800 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) service transmission over a single 800 Gb/s wavelength on an over 1,386-kilometer link across Windstream’s live network.
- Utilizing Nokia FP5 IP service routing platforms with 800GE interfaces and Nokia optical transport platforms with 6th generation super coherent Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s) technology, this demonstration is the first of its kind and validates the readiness of Windstream Wholesale’s network to provision 800GE business and wholesale services to support soaring customer traffic volumes.
- The Nokia 7750 Service Router with an 800GE interface was connected to Nokia’s production-ready 1830 PSI-M optical transport platform with PSE-6s linecards operating at 800Gb/s per wavelength over a third-party WDM line system.
- This combination of Nokia 800GE routing, shipping since 2022, and 800Gb/s long-haul optical transport enables Windstream Wholesale to efficiently scale network capacity over its backbone and provide wholesale Wave service connectivity at both 400GE and 800GE speeds.