Network carriers continue to face the bandwidth and capacity challenges in metro, regional, and long-haul networks, as the traffic grows drastically driven by mobile data delivery, video streaming, and proliferation of cloud computing, data centers, social media, and Internet of Things. The market foresees that the network traffic would increase one hundred times by 2020.

Figure-1 Diagram quoted from "connectorsupplier.com"

400G is Around the Corner

With the introduction and wider availability of 100G optical interfaces from equipment vendor, the industry is now turning its attention to the next evolution in high-speed photonics for achieving 400G/1 Tb speeds. Regardless of 100G or 400G, the evolution path is to reduce size, power consumption and costs.

Equipment vendors are putting substantial R&D efforts as well as great investment funding for developing the next evolution optical interfaces for 400G-transmission. One the other hand, 400G cabling solutions will become one of the cornerstones to support this upcoming ultra-high speed era.

Optec is one of the first optical cable assemblers to provide the future-proofing 400G pre-terminated cabling solutions. Our optical cable fiber assemblies are made to prepare for the rapidly changing technology, which achieve the goals of ultra-high density, simplicity, scalability, and modularity particularly suitable for 400G application.