Coherent Corp. and Kinetic by Windstream announced that their existing partnership to enable 400G services has been extended to enable 100G services at the edge of the network, leveraging the industry's first 100G QSFP28 0 dBm digital coherent optics (DCO) transceiver. The rapid growth of data traffic driven by enterprise and cloud networks, including the exponential growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, is driving demand for next-generation transmission technology that enables service providers to efficiently expand the capacity of the transport network.

With the new high-power 100G transceivers from Coherent, Kinetic will be able to optically connect routers directly to access, metro, and regional transport networks without additional intermediary interfaces, eliminating an entire layer of optical equipment. Kinetic validated the new 100G transceiver technology through a live network trial consisting of 820 km transmission over 14 cascaded ROADM nodes. The live trial was achieved over a production link at 75% channel capacity carrying a mix of 10G, 100G, and 400G signals from multiple technology generations.

The 100G transceivers operated flawlessly end-to- end over the network, exceeding optical performance requirements and validating the IEEE electrical interface standard. Coherent will demonstrate the 100G QSFP 28 0 dBm transceiver at ECOC 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 2-4, Stand #406.

At the conference, Coherent will showcase the most recent additions to its broad portfolio of differentiated solutions for telecom and datacom optical networks.