Industry EventsApril 8, 2024
Disaggregation meets optics innovation
OFC24 Demonstrating the future of networking
At OFC 24, DriveNets’ Calin Miculescu P.Eng demonstrates the future of networking, and how we’re supporting multi-vendor pluggables – Infinera, Coherent Corp., Ciena, Acacia
The integrated solution delivers significant cost savings by collapsing Layer-1 to Layer-3 communications into a single platform. The use of ZR/ZR+ also eliminates the need for standalone optical transponders, lowering the number of boxes in the solution and reducing operational overhead, floorspace, and power requirements.
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My name is Calin Miculescu.
I’m the technical sales here for DriveNets And DriveNets is a revolutionary open disaggregated networking company, and we build networks like cloud.
We’re here at the OFC show in San Diego.
We’re demonstrating here a routed optical network that is an open layer, one to layer three converged network that allows the operators to run any Coherent pluggable they want and to mix and match those pluggables together so that they get their
best in breed technology selection at the Coherent layer, but also in the routers and the rest of the hardware in that stack.
The thing that is unique about DriveNets is our network cloud implementation, which allows the service provider operators to choose any hardware that they would like and leverage all the Coherent pluggable technologies that are available in the industry inside of the DriveNets router. Here, we’ve integrated and partnered with Acacia, Ciena and Coherent with all of their Coherent technologies.
That allows us and our service provider partners to take advantage of that technology advancement while still maintaining an open routed optical network.
The DriveNets technology allows for a reduction in management operational expenses because it reduces the number of devices in the network by leveraging miniaturized and downsized transponders that used to go in separate chassis.
You can now place those directly in your router using an open routed optical network architecture.
And DriveNets now can help you manage a portion of that optical device that you had inside the router itself, thereby reducing the number of devices in the network.
