Comcast Kicks Tires On 100-Gig Optical Links

Slashdot It! Comcast this week is conducting what it claims is the first test of 100-gigabit-per-second optical networking equipment carrying live Internet traffic over a production fiber infrastructure. The 100-Gbps trial connects Comcast facilities in Philadelphia and to McLean, Va., running over the operator’s metro and long-haul fiber links. Comcast is using preproduction versions of Nortel Networks’ 100-Gbps interface cards, running in the vendor’s Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 system. “This is a significant milestone in readying for the deployment of 100-gigabit optics,” John Schanz, executive vice president of national engineering and technical operations for Comcast (pictured), said in an interview. “It’s an enabling building block for going to wideband.” Via Multichannel Get Daily Updates via Email Protect your computer with Windows Onecare Get paid $7.50 for reviewing my post