Fujitsu has taken advantage of the Mobile World Congress framework to show its new platform 1FINITY Ultra Optical System. It is dedicated to hyper-reliable optical transport and designed to offer high performance and scalability with transfer rates of up to 1.2 Terabits per second on a single wavelength. In addition, in the future it is expected that it will undergo an update that will allow this transmission speed to be raised to 1.6 Terabits per second.
Fujitsu will make this new platform available to communication service providers and cloud service providers in the first half of 2023. It will start to do so in the Asia-Pacific region (including Japan, where it will arrive first), North America and Europe, areas where Fujitsu recently brought its full line of optical, wireless and network software solutions.
This system features a digital signal processor (DSP) using the latest semiconductor processes, as well as liquid cooling technology with twice the capacity of conventional technology. It also takes advantage of the latest technologies, including Fujitsu’s continuous C+L ROADMS architecture, which allows multiple wavelengths to be managed in a single product. With them, the new system can reduce carbon emissions, without reducing the transfer rate of 1.2 Terabits per second, and with a range 40% higher than conventional systems.
The 1FINITY platform includes T9000 Series Transponder and L900 Series Optical Line System. The former incorporates Fujitsu’s closed-loop liquid cooling technology, with twice the cooling capacity and half the noise of air systems. As for the L900 Series system, it has a C+L ROADM architecture, which allows an expansion of the optical fiber communication capacity by managing the longest wavelength band of the L band, in addition to the longest wavelength band C, which is frequently used in optical networks.
These technologies will allow Fujitsu customers to improve the scalability of their network infrastructure, and will contribute to the decarbonization of the entire optical network, as the system requires fewer transponders and reduces power consumption.
Conventional optical length waveform multiplexing devices meant that network operators had to bundle multiple fiber optic cables inside the device. The result was increased cable complexity, as well as difficulties during installation. By adopting an intelligent fiber cable system in its L900 Series Optical Line System, Fujitsu has succeeded in reducing cabling complexity by more than 80%, and troubleshooting time during installation and commissioning, from several hours to just a few seconds.
On the other hand, Fujitsu plans now offer services using machine learning to optimize network operations, as well as resources to use in conjunction with your Virtuora Network Control solution for the operation and management of wide area networks.
