It is the industry’s first 2.4Tb / s optical engine
Sunnyvale, California – March 2018 – Infinera, a leading provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, has introduced ICE5, the industry’s first 2.4 terabits per second (Tb / s) optical engine, the latest addition to the Infinite Capacity Engine family of the company.
ICE5 is targeted at Internet content providers (ICP), by scaling connections between data centers and communications service providers (CSPs) that plan fiber optic architectures, including distributed access architecture (DAA) and backhaul 5G mobile Optical motors play a key role in maximizing the technical performance and economic profitability of optical network systems. Infinera has accelerated the pace of innovation of the optical engines, taking advantage of the success of ICE4 in metro, long distance and submarine applications, to introduce ICE5 and demonstrate a growing rate towards ICE6.
Gartner’s forecast for cloud computing forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% until 2020, while Ericsson in its Mobility Report expects total mobile data traffic to increase to a CAGR of 42% by 2022 , accelerating the demand for optical network capacity in ICP and CSP throughout the world.
ICE5 is based on the success of ICE4 to lead the industry not only in terms of optical performance, but also in economics, integrating Infinera’s fifth-generation embedded photonic circuit with a FlexCoherent digital signal processor (DSP) and precise software control to deliver 100 to 600 gigabits per second per wavelength in the industry’s first 2.4 Tb / s optical engine. ICE5 unleashes unprecedented capacity, spectrum and energy efficiency, designed for more than 40 Tb / s in a single fiber within a fraction of a data center rack, increasing capacity up to 65 percent over deployed networks currently and reducing energy consumption by 60 percent.
Infinera’s Instant Network enables software automation of ICE-based platforms, allowing customers to pay for capacity as they need it. In this way there is a correspondence between expenses and income, while increasing the agility of the network and reducing the total cost of ownership. More than 70 Infinera customers, including the three main submarine connectivity clients and more than 60 percent of the data center interconnection clients, rely on Infinera’s Instant Network to scale capacity according to demand.
“Cloud and fiber architectures will accelerate the demand for optical network capacity,” said Jimmy Yu, vice president of optical transport and mobile backhaul at Dell’Oro Group. “This means that future DWDM optical systems will have to accelerate the delivery of higher single-wave speeds and be agile enough to be used interchangeably in metropolitan and long-distance environments.” Infinera’s plan for ICE5 matches our projections five years in the sense that the demand of DWDM will grow faster in instances of aggregation and metropolitan access due to the interconnection of the data center, the 5G backhaul network and the fiber “.
“Innovation is in fast-forward mode at Infinera, and the success of ICE4 now brings us to ICE5, the industry’s first 2.4 Tb / s optical engine,” said Dr. Dave Welch, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and founder of Infinera. “With ICE5 we are taking our cutting-edge technologies to the market faster than ever, allowing our ICP and CSP customers to respond quickly to the explosive growth in bandwidth demand and ultimately win in their respective markets.”
Infinera’s Intelligent Transport Network platforms with ICE5 will be available in early 2019.
For more information, visit www.infinera.com/ice5-innovation-on-fast-forward.
About Infinera
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) provides Intelligent Transport Networks, allowing carriers, cloud operators, governments and companies to scale their network bandwidth, accelerate service innovation and automate optical network operations. The full portfolio of Infinera for optical package solutions is designed for long distance, submarine, interconnection of data centers and metropolitan applications. For more information about Infinera visit www.infinera.com, follow us on Twitter @Infinera and read the most recent publications on our blog at blog.infinera.com.
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