Hanover-based Ciena introduced final week that it has surpassed 100,000 shipments of WaveLogic 5 Excessive (WL5e) programmable 800 G know-how modems, enabling metro, long-haul, and submarine networks worldwide to satisfy the growing calls for for bandwidth whereas being extra energy-efficient.

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Ciena WaveLogic 5 Excessive

Ciena states that WL5e has launched new ranges of scale, programmability, and vitality benefits for service and content material suppliers globally, providing programmable capability from 200 G to 800 G, and the power to evolve to high-speed, ubiquitous 400 GbE connectivity throughout any path within the community. Ciena additionally provides the WaveLogic 5 Nano household of footprint-optimised options, consisting of 100-400 G pluggable coherent optics.

The networking options firm additionally offered key details about its WL5e product, which has been shipped to greater than 250 clients throughout 68 international locations worldwide. Reportedly, 100,000 WL5e modems are transmitting greater than 50 Petabits per second of information, equal to the complete world streaming an HD video concurrently, with capability remaining.

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Delivering Capability Since Introduction

“Since its introduction in 2008, the WaveLogic line of merchandise has delivered as much as 40 instances extra capability over fibre and greater than a 90 % discount in Watts per Gbps for Ciena clients,” Ciena stated in a press launch.

Relating to vitality utilization, the corporate stated, “The vitality effectivity financial savings from the 100,000 WL5e modem shipments are equal to greater than 82,000 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions prevented yearly, akin to not utilizing 9 million gallons of gasoline.”

Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Know-how

Commenting on the milestone, Ciena stated, “To succeed in this milestone of 100,000 WaveLogic 5 Excessive modems shipped is vastly vital for Ciena, and a testomony to each the standard of our know-how and the dimensions of our world footprint. Our pursuit to push the boundaries of optical efficiency is much from over, and we’re happy to say clients have already made buy orders for our next-generation WaveLogic 6 know-how, which we’ll start delivery subsequent 12 months.”

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As reported by TelecomTalk in February 2023, Ciena unveiled WaveLogic 6 which can help as much as 1.6 Tbps single-carrier wavelengths for metro ROADM deployments, 800 Gbps over the longest hyperlinks, and energy-efficient 800 G pluggables throughout 1000 km distances.