12 March 2014
Infinera has unveiled a flexible grid ROADM to complement its DTN-X optical networking platform. The FlexROADM is claimed to deliver two industry firsts: it can add and drop flexible-grid-based 500G superchannels, and uses the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) spectrum switched optical networks (SSON), a next-generation control plane standard that manages fibre spectrum.