POLATIS 576 Optical Circuit Switch Debuts

The latest addition to the POLATIS all-optical switch portfolio from HUBER+SUHNER has been designed to provide operators with 80 percent more capacity than other solutions. The POLATIS 576 software-defined optical circuit switch has a resilient, redundant and modular architecture that underpins the reliability and availability of the switch in a network environment.

To protect mission-critical services, the POLATIS 576 can be equipped with field-addressable spare ports so an interruption on any port can be bypassed by moving the fiber to a spare and reassigning the port in software.

Extending the company’s leadership in this field, the high-performance, high-density POLATIS optical switch platform offers maximum connectivity and reliability with low optical loss and fast-switching speeds for the most demanding of applications.

The matrix of 576×576 non-blocking fiber ports enables operators to connect remotely a greater number of fibers together in a compact form factor in applications such as cybersecurity and network monitoring, test lab automation and data center cross connects. The POLATIS 576 variant with MPO connectors occupies 8RU of precious rack space.

The low-loss POLATIS 576 optical switch uses the patented DirectLight transparent, dark-fiber optical switching platform that has been proven in challenging data centers, telecom, test and defense applications for more than two decades.

With support for software-defined networks (SDNs) via embedded NETCONF and RESTCONF interfaces, POLATIS optical circuit switches are 100-times more energy-efficient than conventional electronic switching equipment and enable dynamic routing, monitoring, protection and test of real-time traffic directly at the fiber layer with speed-of-light data latency.