Optical technology company Windstream Wholesale teamed with Cisco to announce the successful transmission of a 1Tbps wavelength over a 1,100-kilometer link. This path came across multiple routes on Windstream’s Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON). This transport achievement used Cisco’s NCS 1014 C-Band 2.4T WDM Transponder Line Card with Acacia’s Coherent Interconnect Module (CIM) 8.
Successful trial deployments achieved the following key wavelength transmissions across Windstream ICON routes:
- Roundtrip transport of 1Tbps over 1,100 km (Miami to Jacksonville).
- Transport of 800G over 1,387 km of mixed fiber (Miami through Tallahassee to Atlanta).
- Roundtrip transport of 600G over 2,774 km (Miami to Atlanta).
“This tremendous achievement further proves our commitment to technology leadership and networking expertise,” said John Nishimoto, Windstream Wholesale SVP of Products, Marketing and Strategy. “We developed ICON to provide multi-vendor flexibility and seamlessly integrate the newest optimized technology into our disaggregated network. Achievements like this reinforce our 800G wave strategy and offer improved design and network planning options among our 100G and 400G solutions.”
Trial results emphasize that disaggregated networking can be implemented successfully on production networks and demonstrate that interoperability between a vendor’s transponder and a third-party line system. This accomplishment is an industry-first and is another of many successful milestones resulting from the long-term collaboration between Windstream Wholesale, Cisco and Acacia.
Windstream’s Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) provides open and disaggregated networking infrastructure, enabling wholesale and enterprise technology customers to select unique custom routes, maintain operational insights with Windstream’s Network Intelligence functions and place networks closer to the edge. To view the Windstream Wholesale network, visit here. For Windstream Wholesale partner opportunities, click here.
