Muxponder for More Cost-Effective WDM Network With the increased network requirements of individuals and enterprises, carriers are faced with unique challenge. That is, how to leverage existing and new optical networks so as to accommodate current growth and prepare for future expansion in the most effective manner? Muxponder technology, as a part of WDM technology, can maximize the fiber capacity to the extreme and meet the demands. slotted wire duct aggregates multiple services into a single wavelength which are then multiplexed along with other wavelengths into the same fiber.
This post will discuss how to use 100G muxponder for more cost-effective WDM network. The 100G muxponder is optimized for high-capacity optical transport networks (OTN) migrating to 100G and data center or enterprise networks with significant investment in 10G and 40G router ports. It has two 40G QSFP+, ten 10G SFP+ client interfaces and a 100G CFP line interface that can cost-effectively support pluggable short range, DWDM metro and long range coherent 100G optics. Also, the 100G muxponder supports a wide variety of client services and protocols including 40G LAN, 10G LAN/WAN, STM64/OC-192, and 8G/10G Fibre Channel.
Moreover, it supports an arbitrary mix of 10Gbps and 40Gbps client interfaces, up to a total of 100 Gbps.As stated above, the 100G muxponder offers remarkable flexibility with fully pluggable interfaces, which can host 2x40G QSFP+ and 10x10G SFP+. So for customers with a large number of 10G services in their network, the 100G muxponder is an efficient way to combine ten 10G services into a single 100G service on the line side. For customers with a mix of 40G and 10G services, the 100G muxponder can flexibly carry any mix of services without the need to pre-plan the network or replace hardware for different mixes. Here shows the three different user-configurable muxponder options:In 100G muxponder model, all 10G or sub-10G services are first aggregated into a single 100G or 10G uplink respectively, and then passing between the sites utilizing one single wavelength. With this aggregation method, the muxponder thus maximizes the fiber utilization and presents effective low cost, easy to operate solutions for today’s enterprises and carriers.