NextGen Achieves 100 Gbps IP Speeds Over Fibre-Optic Network

NextGen Networks has achieved 100 Gbps integration between optic equipment and internet protocol (IP) routing infrastructure through its fibre-optic network.

This achievement is a vital step to provide numerous broadband-based services. NextGen demonstrated the speeds on the same platform, which is being used to offer backhaul infrastructure to regional places as part of the government contract.

NextGen Networks’s Managing Director, Phil Sykes stated that it was possible to transmit data at 100 Gbps speed over a fiber-optic network. However, manipulation of packets was possible only at 10 Gbps instead of the expected 100 Gbps speed. The company managed to make the internet protocol routing infrastructure function at the same 100 Gbps speed like the optical transport, Sykes said.

Sykes further stated that the fiber-optic technology manages the packet-by-packet service at 100 Gbp, and is required to provide new technological services such as remote and advanced medical imaging.