Keysight Technologies has announced the first demonstration of interoperability in the 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ecosystem with Innolight Technology (Suzhou). The demonstration over Innolight’s OSFP optical tranceivers, leveraged Ixia’s AresONE-400GE OSFP 8x400GE test system to deliver 3.2 Tbps of Ethernet test traffic.
The 400GE ecosystem is growing with vendors delivering technology innovations to serve hyper-scale data centers and cloud providers who need increasing bandwidth. As the industry moves ahead, the 400GE ecosystem also needs to demonstrate interoperability among vendors to prove that it is ready for real-world applications.
Innolight and Ixia have demonstrated interoperability with a major network manufacturer’s OSFP 400GE switch at full line rate using Innolight optical transceivers. This is the first known interoperability test that delivered live Ethernet traffic using Innolight’s 400GBASE-SR8 optical transceiver and Active Optical Cable for multi-mode fiber, and the 400GBASE-2xFR4 optical transceiver for single mode fiber.
Osa Mok, Chief Marketing Officer, InnoLight Technology, says, "Proving that next-generation 400GE optics can deliver 3.2 Tb speeds are an integral part getting the 400GE ecosystem ready for our customers. Demonstrations of interoperability using a proven test system such as Ixia‘s AresONE are key to bringing 400GE to market.”
Ixia‘s AresONE-400GE test systems enable network equipment providers to test high-port-density devices such as routers, switches and servers for all Ethernet speeds, 400GE/200GE/100GE/50GE, based on the IEEE802.3bs and IEEE802.3cd standards. It is the first high-density 8-port 400GE test system made available to the industry in a 2 rack-unit (RU) fixed chassis based on 56Gb/s electrical interface with PAM-4 encoded signalling, to support both OSFP or QSFP-DD pluggable interfaces. It runs IxNetwork, Ixia‘s field-proven L2/3 emulation performance and scale test software. AresONE is available in full and reduced, 4-port and 8-port models.
Sunil Kalidindi, Vice-President of Product Management at Keysight’s Ixia Solutions Group, comments, “This interoperability test is a great milestone for the 400GE ecosystem with the first known demonstration of multi-mode and single mode OSFP optical transceivers delivering real network traffic on a major manufacturer’s switch. These tests show the versatility of the AresONE for testing different types of optical transceivers for 400GE and 200GE speeds as well as the forthcoming 4x100GE and 8X50GE multi-rate Ethernet speeds that these optics will eventually support.”
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