OpenColo: Using 800GE Routing Interfaces, Nokia Oyj Increases Connectivity at OpenColo's Data Centers
Apr 04, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Yesterday, Nokia and OpenColo reported that the first commercial field testing to transmit a 1.6 Terabit/s traffic flow across an 800GE link aggregation group using 800GE FR4 optics had been successfully completed. OpenColo, a cutting-edge supplier of data center connection and colocation services with offices in Santa Clara, California, and Miami, Florida, is headquartered in Silicon Valley. The Nokia 1830 PSI small modular optical transport platform and the Nokia 7750 SR-1se router, both equipped with Photonic Service Engine (PSE) coherent interfaces and FP5 silicon to support 800GE interfaces, were used in the initial testing. Beginning in 2022, Nokia is the first vendor to provide 800GE routing solutions commercially and in production. With complete link resilience and coherent optical transmission, this study represents the first use of 800GE link aggregation for high-capacity data center connectivity in the market.
According to OpenColo's co-founder and chief technology officer, Scott Brookshire, they always work to push the boundaries of what is possible in order to foresee the constantly changing needs of their devoted consumers and the market. They had complete confidence in Nokia's ability to deliver smooth line rate performance of 1.6 Tb/s without any packet loss with the company's ground-breaking introduction of 800GE. Nokia fulfilled this commitment in line with their hopes. The achievement of this significant milestone with OpenColo, according to Jeff Jakab, Vice President, IPHardwareProduct Management at Nokia, further proves the maturity and added value of their 800GE routing technology to address actual client needs now and in the future. The economic benefits of 800GE above 400GE are obvious given that it is cost-neutral with 400GE today and offers up to a 40% reduction in power consumption. Implementing 800GE routing is an easy and obvious way to address the urgent power issues that the company is now facing.