100GbE Transport Requirements Klaus Grobe, Jörg-Peter Elbers, Michael Eiselt Internet2 Meeting, October 10th, 2007
© 2007 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. ADVA confidential. 2 Outline 100GbE Carrier Transport IEEE HSSG and ITU-T SG15 Interface Focus and Status 100G Requirements and Challenges Possible (and likely) Solutions
© 2007 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. ADVA confidential GbE Carrier Transport Transparent transport of 100GbE services Reach and capacity extension (Mm, Tb/s) Inline optical amplification and compensation/equalization, DWDM, advanced modulation/coding Customer Edge (CE) Provider Edge (PE) Optical Transport Network Mapping, Framing, FEC & OAM, Multiplexing 100GbE “Client I/F” “Line I/F” N x 100GbE
© 2007 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. ADVA confidential. 4 IEEE and ITU Interface Focus IEEE HSSG “Client interface” Standard Data equipment LAN/Short Reach Copper, SMF, MMF 1 x 100G (grey) 2 x 10GbE ITU-T SG15 “Line interface” G.709 Standard Transport equipment WAN/Long Reach SMF N x 100G (amplified DWDM) 6.25 x OTU-2* Basis Focus Application Physical Media Operation Price Expectation *) 2.5x price for 4x capacity
© 2007 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. ADVA confidential GbE Transport Requirements Support of metro and (regional/LH) core DWDM applications Compatibility to today’s fiber infrastructure Compatibility to 50GHz channel grid (core) Compatibility to 100GHz channel grid (metro) ≥ 2x increase in spectral efficiency compared to 40Gb/s (core) > 2x increase in spectral efficiency compared to 10Gb/s (metro) 100GbE must consider / be considered by OTH OTU4
© 2007 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. ADVA confidential GbE Transport Challenges For same reach and modulation format as 10Gb/s 10dB OSNR penalty 100x higher impact of GVD 10x higher impact of PMD More degradations by fiber nonlinearity Incompatibility to optical filters and channel grid Serial transmission (100GbE per ) expected to win on long term Needs advanced modulation, FEC, electronic signal processing Likely different interface variants for metro and core Industry consensus on formats highly desirable Noise Limit Non-linear Limit Launched Channel Power [a.u.] Number of Spans [a.u.]
© 2007 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. ADVA confidential. 7 Likely 100G Interface Summary Data/client interfaces 10m10x 10.3Gb/s Cu AssemblySDM 100m10x 10.3Gb/s OM3 MMF850nm SDM 100m1x 103Gb/s SMF1.3µm TDM 10km4x 25.8Gb/s SMF1.3µm xWDM 40km4x 25.8Gb/s SMF1.3µm xWDM Transport/line 1.55µm Enterprise4x 25.8Gb/s < 200kmSMFDWDM Metro1x 111Gb/s < 600kmSMFMulti-level/carrier Core1x 111Gb/s (27.8GBd) < 2000km SMFQPSK+PolMux 100G transport will start in metro and enterprise (corporate backbone) networks System upgrades 10G 40G 100G are required!
© 2007 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. ADVA confidential. 8 Summary Single-wavelength transport necessary for spectral efficiency ITU-T G.709-compliant framing mandatory Support upgrades of 10G/40G installations Different solutions for different distance domains Focus on highly tolerant, cost effective realizations
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