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Data and Telecom: Convergence of Hardware What the Network Will Be

Dave Welch

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Infinera

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Network Demands Continue to Accelerate

Drivers

Network Traffic

Video

Cloud

Mobility

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Photonic Integration enables economical convergence

IP/MPLS

SONET SDH OTN

DWDM

IP

MPLS

IP

Phase 1 Status Quo Phase 2

Converged MPLS/OTN/DWDM

(future)

PIC Enabled

Converged OTN/DWDM

PIC Enabled

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Inefficient mapping of services into 100 Gb/s waves

Grooming/Switching Req’d

Muxponder

Muxponder + External Switch

Integrated DWDM/Switch

Optical networks must create more efficiency opportunities

10% fill

40% fill

30% fill

80% fill

1 x 10G Svc

100G l

4 x 10G Svc

100G l

100G l 3 x 10G Svc

200%

100%

Relative Network Cost

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OXC Switch Capacity 0% DWDM, 100% Tributary

Integrated WDM/Switching 50% DWDM, 50% Tributary

DESIRED Vendor

A Vendor

C Vendor

B

5T 5T

1.6T 1.3T

3.8T

2.4T 2.6T 2.3T

I/O

Cap

acit

y (T

b/S

hel

f)

5T

1T

WDM Only 100% DWDM, 0% Tributary

1.6T 2.1T

Optical networks need no longer compromise

100T

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Large Pan N.A. network with average 50% utilization & maximum link capacity of 8 Tb/s

Photonic Integration enables greater efficiencies

69% decrease

Competitor Integrated

DTN-X

Total # Modules/Cards

9,770

3,024

60% decrease

Competitor Integrated

DTN-X

26,724

10,683

Total # Fiber Patches

67% decrease

Competitor Integrated

DTN-X

Total # Chassis

568

189

33% Decrease

Competitor Integrated

DTN-X

Total Rack Space

150%

100%

Source: Ramasubramanian et al., September 2011

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Photonic Integration will be a ‘green’ enabler

0%

100%

200%

Ciena AF6500 ALU 1830PSS-64

HuaweiOSN8800

Infinera DTN-X

No

rmal

ized

Po

wer

per

Gb

/s

4-Degree Junction, 1Tb/s WDM/direction, 25% Add/Drop

Optical Networks must be greener

Current Generation

Evolution 1

Evolution 2

GOAL

* Infinera Estimates

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Best way to build 1Tb/s of capacity? Super-channels

Must be spectrally efficient

Must be possible to

manufacture

1 Laser 4 modulators 320 Gbaud Electronics < 11 nm Si Time to Market: 10 years

10 Lasers 40 Modulators 32 Gbaud electronics Photonic ICs Time to Market 2 years

DWDM Fiber Spectrum

1 Tb/s PM-QPSK

375 GHz 375 GHz

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Moore’s Law for Optical

600 Optical functions on chip

Photonic Integration enable Optical Moore’s Law Le

vel o

f In

tegr

atio

n

2004 2014 2012

100G PIC

10G

2009

~ ~

100G PIC

10G ULH

1T PIC

2T PIC

500G PIC

500G 100G coherent

4T PIC

8T PIC

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State of the Art PIC-Technology today Creating the 1Tb/s Super-Channel

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