OREANDA-NEWS. September 09, 2014. NTT Corporation, NEC Corporation, and Fujitsu Limited announced that they have achieved a successful transmission test of the world’s top-level, 400Gbps/channel-class digital coherent optical transmissions technology, marking a step toward commercialization.

The test, with 400Gbps-class signals multiplexed up to 62 channels, verified fiber-optic transmissions of 12.4-24.8Tbps wavelength division multiplexed signals having different capacities for each modulation method at distances ranging from several thousand kilometers up to 10,000km.

By implementing this technology in an optical transceiver, a quadrupling of optical transmissions was achieved while using existing optical fiber, enabling the construction of the world’s top-level core network, with the ability to handle transmissions of ultra-high-definition videos and the widespread expansion of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.

Building on these results, the companies will accelerate efforts to commercialize 400Gbps-class optical transmission technology. This R&D initiative was commissioned and is sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) as part of its “Research and Development Project for the Ultra-high Speed and Green Photonic Networks” program.