Saudi Arabia's STC Group has partnered with Huawei to complete the MENA region's first-ever long-haul 800G per channel trial in a live optical network. The successful live network trial, with a connection over 1,000 km from Riyadh to Makkah, proves the 800G solution is ready for scaled deployment across Saudi Arabia, STC Group said in an official release.
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Advantages of 800G Technology
As a result of this trial, STC Group said its networks can now transport more data throughput for every wavelength deployed and extend across longer distances without generation, reducing power and transport costs, and supporting efficiency standards across STC Group's infrastructure.
"The high-performance 800G per channel optical module, empowered by a built-in high baud bandwidth modulator and super 16QAM modulation with a Channel-Matched Shaping (CMS) 2.0 algorithm, established a connection over 1,000 kilometres in a live Colorless-Directionless-Contentionless (CDC) network, proving the STC systems can monitor and sustain complex link environments in real-time, optimizing network transmission performance," the company said.
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Capacity Increase
The 800G channel trial project is part of STC's efforts to maximise fiber capacity and optical network efficiency, making it possible to deliver up to 64 Tbps single fiber capacity to meet increasing bandwidth demand from users. Additionally, this will reduce the per-bit power consumption by more than 50 percent compared with 100G channels.
