{"id":542,"date":"2007-07-06T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-06T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T09:34:00","slug":"ericsson-completes-live-40gbps-optical-transmission-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/542-ericsson-completes-live-40gbps-optical-transmission-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson completes live 40Gbps optical transmission trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Conducted over Telstra&#39;s existing 10Gbps optical fibre routes in Australia last month, the trial demonstrated that the company&#39;s existing 10Gbps Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transmission technology, which carries voice, data and video, can be increased to 40Gbps without making major changes to the network, the company says.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;This is an extremely exciting development and one that is also very relevant here in Africa,&quot; enthuses Pieter van der Westhuizen, vice-president: networks and sales support, for Ericsson&#39;s Market Unit sub-Saharan Africa (MUSA). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Operators running large optical fibres between major cities can now look forward to boosting the performance and potential of their infrastructure without the huge costs associated with upgrading the physical cables in the ground.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Once this additional feature becomes commercially available it will enhance Ericsson&#39;s existing widely deployed DWDM solution, Marconi MHL 3000, and will allow operators to quickly and economically upgrade network capacity to meet anticipated levels of IP traffic growth and bandwidth demands, he adds.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=80419\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson says that it has successfully completed a live network trial for next-generation 40Gbps optical transmission technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}