Benefits of TeraWave® ULL Optical Fiber for Improving Capacity, Reach, and Economics with Coherent Transport
White Paper
Today coherent transport technology enables 40 and 100 Gigabit per second speeds over legacy fiber networks, but soon new developments will enable even higher data rates up to 400 Gb/s and beyond over a new generation of low loss, large area fibers. In response to the advances in signaling technologies, OFS introduced the TeraWave ULL Optical Fibers designed for emerging terabit per second modulation formats. The deployment of cable including TeraWave ULL Optical Fiber will help network operators better manage emerging, fundamental limitations in spectral efficiency and un-regenerated reach to help reduce cost-per-bit of transport as traffic grows exponentially. TeraWave ULL Optical Fiber transports coherent modulation formats almost twice as far as the installed base of G.652 standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) without regeneration. It has been optimized for use in both the C- and L-bands. The cost-per-bit from procuring and fully lighting a cabled TeraWave ULL Optical Fiber can be 40 to 80% lower cost-per-bit than fully lighting a legacy G.652 fiber over an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) chain, typical of the installed base, by avoiding the high cost of regeneration.|Today coherent transport technology enables 40 and 100 Gigabit per second speeds over legacy fiber networks, but soon new developments will enable even higher data rates up to 400 Gb/s and beyond over a new generation of low loss, large area fibers. In response to the advances in signaling technologies, OFS introduced the TeraWave ULL Optical Fibers designed for emerging terabit per second modulation formats. The deployment of cable including TeraWave ULL Optical Fiber will help network operators better manage emerging, fundamental limitations in spectral efficiency and un-regenerated reach to help reduce cost-per-bit of transport as traffic grows exponentially. TeraWave ULL Optical Fiber transports coherent modulation formats almost twice as far as the installed base of G.652 standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) without regeneration. It has been optimized for use in both the C- and L-bands. The cost-per-bit from procuring and fully lighting a cabled TeraWave ULL Optical Fiber can be 40 to 80% lower cost-per-bit than fully lighting a legacy G.652 fiber over an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) chain, typical of the installed base, by avoiding the high cost of regeneration.