Ribbon Communications Inc. announced that in cooperation with SURF, the collaborative organization for IT in Dutch education and research, it has successfully achieved 800G over a brownfield 1,650 km fiber optic link connecting research institutions including Nikhef with The Large Hadron particle located on the CERN campus in Geneva. The trial demonstrated a number of Ribbon's advanced transport solutions: Apollo TM800_2, which uses 5nm-140Gbaud transmission technology to deliver capacity-reach optimized 800G transport. Apollo Open Optical Line Systems, which include hybrid EDFA-Raman amplifiers that maximize the capacity of SURF's brownfield G655 and G652 fiber, and have a proven ability to carry third-party vendor wavelengths.

NPT 2400 metro router, which is interoperable with SURF's network and delivered 2x400GbE uplinks running EVPN services on top of BGP to 8x100G ports on that network.