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What Ciena learns from Research Participation

Rodney G. WilsonSr. Director, External Research

rwilson@ciena.com

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Powerful market forces are driving our innovation

Significant proliferation of

mobile broadband

Video, video and more video

The majority of traffic is now packet

Enterprise IT is shifting

to the cloud

Storage

Servers

Applications

First we Connected Places, Then People, Then Things

Workforce mobility & increased connectivity

Real-time, low latency applications

High-frequency trading & other financial apps

Medical imaging & other

healthcare apps

Native video transport & other video

apps

Packet

Time

CircuitTraf

fic

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Coherent by Analogy

Morse Code:Power (on/off) carries info.

Dumb receiver.

Digital Radio:Amplitude & phase carry info.

Tunable receiver. Digital enhancements.

Non-Coherent Optics Coherent Optics

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Capacity Scale

eDCO

Capacity per Channel10G 40G 100G 200G 400G 1T

WaveLogic T2 & R2

WaveLogic T3 & R3

WaveLogic T4 & R4

Lab Demo(Vectors 2010)

880G per fiber

8.8T per fiber

>20T per fiber

2005:•10G eDCO, 1st 10G uncompnetwork

2010:• 100G metro, regional, submarine (2,000km)2009:• 40G submarine, ULH terrestrial (DP BPSK), 100G LH (CoFDM DP QPSK)2008:• 40G metro, reg’l, long haul, regional submarine (QPSK)

Higher performance high-capacity solutions• DSP in both Tx and Rx• Integrated soft-decision forward error correction

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Not all Coherent is Created Equal

Nearly ten years expertise from the pioneers of coherent optics

Unique IP:Advanced coherent DSPUltra-high performance FECHigh-speed, high-resolution A/D

Ciena WaveLogic™

Coherent Optical Processors

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2008: 100G & Supercomputing ( > 8Tb/s per fiber)

Single Carrier 100G @ 50Ghz Spacing

Full C-Band Tunable

Asynchronous Multiplexing 10x10G

Any 10G Client on Any Port

100G 8dB+ Enhanced FEC

Dual Polarization

QPSK Modulation Format

Low Latency

Commercial Form Factor

1 Petabyte of data transfer in 12hours on 1 carrier

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Chicago

Verizon’s 100G DeploymentsNew York to Chicago

New York

http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2011/verizon-first-service.html

North American first 100G/100GbE over 1500 km of mixed and high PMD fiber

Albuquerque

Colorado Springs

DenverSalt Lake City

Omaha

Minneapolis

Detroit Albany

Charlton

Pittsburgh

Richmond

RaleighCharlotte

Greensboro

Louisville

Chicago Akron

Columbus

Cincinnati

Indianapolis

Nashville

Memphis

St. LouisKansas City

AtlantaDallas

Austin

San Antonio

Phoenix

Rialto

Las Vegas

Sacramento

Portland

Seattle

Reno

Houston

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Lesson #3: Use Ethernet for Both Service & Infrastructure

Key attributesGlobalUbiquitousAffordableMulti-rate

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Lesson #4: Use OTN as a Common Container

OTNWavelength

SDH

GbE

VLAN 1

VLAN 2

VLAN 3TE-Tunnels

Carrier Ethernet

SONET/SDH

CarrierEthernet

OTNNetwork Substrate

Evolution

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Network-Based IP VPNsEthernetATMFrame RelayPrivate Lines

Network-Based IP VPNsEthernetATMFrame RelayPrivate Lines

Source: Ciena, Vertical Systems

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OTN Enables Transparent Transport of Services

Software DefinableBandwidth Containers using OTN G.709 Encapsulation

Optical Light Path

Storage Ethernet SONET/SDH Digital Video

Variety ofOpticalFormats

Service Transparency

Multi-layer Management

Flexibility

Data, Voice, Storage, Legacy TDM, and HD Video: One Platform…One Wavelength

Efficiency

Growth

Supports any mix of supported services allowing a smooth transition from Circuit to Packet

TransparentPayload

Hdr

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OTN Software Definable Bandwidth Grooming using OTN switching

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OTN Enables Mesh Control Plane Automation

1. Automated Self-Inventory

3. Efficient Operations

2. Automated Connection Management

4. Self-Healing Network

OSSInitiated

MigratedTraffic

PlannedMaintenance Works

OSSInitiated

NetworkFailure

Auto-RestoredTraffic

Automation significantly reduces network OpEx

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Mesh Control Plane in ActionJapan Earthquake

Communications Day – March 14th, 2011

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Terrestrial Demo Content & Applications – 100G

Chicago

OttawaMEN LAB 10100G Connectivity from Ciena Ottawa to Starlight Gigapop in Chicago.

Ability to show simultaneous data-flows sourced from major collaborators.

MEN LAB 10 Tile DIsplay

Canadian Brain Imaging NetworkCBRAIN portal & Metadata

Montreal

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Alternative Source:Amsterdam

Source1: CERN

Termination1:Copenhagen

Extend 40G ULH to Iceland??

Termination2:Copenhagen

Route Plan for Terena demo May 16

Prove 40G over foreign waves CERN to Stockholm

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Three Dimensions of Capacity Evolution

IncreaseSymbol rateConstellational multiplicitySubcarrier multiplicity

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ultip

licity

Symbol rate

AmplitudePhase

Polarization

freq

∆f

Single manageable optical entity

Exploit all 3Ds in order to OptimizeSpectral Efficiency, Performance, Cost & Reliability

“Super Channels”

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2010: 1Tb/s per Wavelength

191.5 192 192.5 193 193.5 194 194.5 195 195.5-35

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Frequency [THz]

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83 x 100G

1.12Tbps

ProgrammableSpectral window

Test ChannelTransmitter

CoherentReceiver

AdvancedModulation

Formats

Data Capture&

Post Processing

DemuxFilter

WDM Transmitter

1.12Tb/s160 GHz channel spacing

SE >6 B/s/Hz

160 GHz

1Tb/s

X and Y Pols

50GHz spacing

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Spectral Efficiency(b/s/Hz)

4 6 8 10 12Eb/No (dB)

14 16

10G

40G

100G

200G

400G 1T

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Coherent receiversdeployed today

Building the new global information infrastructure

> 7,000

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VERIZON890km, >30 x 10G λ LIVE DEPLOYMENT!

JANET/Verizon BusinessLondon, Reading 103km25ps mean DGD added

10G/40G/100G over existing network

OFC/NFOEC5 λ: 10G (2), 40G (2),

100G, 1000km, 50GHz3 fiber types, no comp

SC08 - SupercomputingNortel 100G in SCinet

Carried live traffic for the duration of the event

2008 2009 2010

100GE over 100G World’s 1st: 100GE over

100G wavelength800km, PMD 60ps DGD 10G/40G/100G, 50GHz

VERIZON100G over fibre that could

not carry 10G, 73kmPassed 107ps DGD PMD

COMCAST Carrying live Internet for IETF

Philadelphia - Washington335km, 4x 50GHz ROADM

100G error-free 7 daysForeign 40G live video traffic

Ciena’s Earliest Public 100G Milestones

NEOS NetworksManchester – London

705km, no regens10G/40G/100G over

existing network

BANVERKETSundsvall - Stockholm

810km, no regens10G/40G/100G over

existing network

FEB MAR OCT NOV DEC APR MAY JUNMAR

OFC/NFOEC10x10GE over 100G λ

800km, 4 x 50GHz ROADMColorless OADM with

coherent receiver

SURFNETAmsterdam, Hamburg 1244km, no regens

80ps DGD10G/40G/100G over

existing network

100G Demo over Challenging Conditions

100G over same challenges carrying

live traffic

100G over worst span in

network

100GE over 112Gbps λ

10 x 10GE over 112Gbps λ

Record Distance

100G requiring No Network

Re-Engineering

JUL

TELSTRA2038km, no regens

10x10GE over 100G λ

DEC