A group of 25 companies that create 100 Gb/s solutions, the 10x10 MSA has introduced the 40 Km and 10 Km specifications. A common specification was developed by the MSA for deployments of longer reach applications with a reduced risk. This also eliminates the need for proprietary or custom solutions, thereby reducing manufacturing as well as development costs.
The 10 Km specification is based on the existing 2 Km specifications to guarantee interoperability and backward compatibility with the available 10X10-2 Km standard. This flexibility allows service providers to expand their data center networks. The 40 Km specification builds on the existing 10 Gb/s DWDM network specifications, thus allowing a seamless upgradation of the existing 10 Gb/s metro links to 100 Gb/s without additional amplification or regeneration.
A senior technologist at Brocade and the chair of the 10X10 MSA, Scott Kipp stated that the 40 km specification will allow single fiber data transmission of up to 800 Gb/s. The chief technology officer of Santur, Milind Gokhale stated that the flexibility offered new specifications allow power efficient, low cost scalability of 100 Gb/s networks from the data center to metro networks.
The Vice President-Business Development of Oplink, Rang-Chen Yu stated that the 40 Km specification allows for a cost-effective solution, which enables scalability to metro applications and 100 GbE aggregation. Additionally, the specified band-WDM feature supports multiple 100 GbE traffic in a single fiber.