Menara
Networks, an IPG Photonics business and vertically integrated provider of
IP/Ethernet DWDM transport solutions, has announced immediate sampling of its
coherent CFP-DCO transceivers to select customers.
Based on an advanced 16 nm coherent processor, Menara’s
latest digital CFP-DCO DWDM transceiver is designed to support DWDM coherent
transmission for 100 and 200 Gbit/s per wavelength in a CFP MSA form factor.
The device performs functionality including adaptive advanced modulation,
digital signal processing for linear and non-linear fibre impairments
compensation, G.709-compliant OTN framing and a range of hard and soft
decision-based FEC encoding/decoding.
Compatible with 100 Gigabit Ethernet, CAUI, OTL4.10 and OTL
4.4 interfaces, Menara’s new coherent CFP-DCO is full C-band tunable and offers
support for ITU-T G.694.1 12.5 GHz flexible grid. The solution is designed to
support ZR, data centre interconnection (DCI), metro and long haul network
applications.
At OFC 2017, Menara is showcasing its new coherent CFP-DCO
transceivers on a 250 km repeater-less fibre link featuring IPG Photonics’
compact hybrid EDFA/Raman Optical Services Transport Platform (OSTP). The
company will also demonstrate its transceiver solution integrating C-band
tunability, OTN framing and FEC in a SFP+ transceiver MSA form factor.
In March 2016, Menara announced the availability of a MSA
CFP-2 100 Gbit/s adapter module designed to accommodate QSFP28 transceivers
covering all 100 Gbit/s MSAs and reaches. Menara claimed this was the first
solution able to adapt any MSA QSFP28 100 Gbit/s module into a MSA-compliant
CFP2 100 Gbit/s module.
