Turkcell, Turkiye's main communications provider and ZTE, has successfully verified over 2000km terrestrial long-haul transmission based on a commercial 800G pluggable coherent module and single carrier architecture without regeneration.
Turkiye occupies a unique geographical location, partly in Asia and partly in Europe, making long-distance transmission essential for the development of its optical network.
As one of the largest service providers covering this vast region, Turkcell has independent routes with many protection and redundancy scenarios and five European border crossings guaranteed with its own infrastructure. It provides connections to major European cities through independent routes.
With seven eastern border crossings, Turkcell can now leverage its infrastructure to reliably serve the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, the Republic of Turkey and the Caucasus.
“As Turkcell, we aim to leverage Turkey's unique role as a bridge between Europe and Asia and become the front line of the Digital Silk Road between East and West,” said Veevi Çağlu, CTO of Turkcell.・Professor Gyungyol said. Our network is evolving to become a central hub for content providers. As Turkcell, through our cooperation with ZTE, we facilitate very high capacity transmission over long distances from east to west through Turkey. ”
Various factors are prompting Turkcell to consider 800G technology.future The deployment of 5G networks and emerging technologies such as cloud computing and digital services are expected to significantly increase network traffic, creating an urgent need for carriers to increase their bandwidth.
In pursuit of this goal, Turkcell collaborated with ZTE to validate an 800G pluggable solution based on a single-carrier future-proof architecture. In this project, ZTE introduced its flagship optical transmission product, his ZXONE 9700. It utilized his 800G pluggable coherent module for long distance transmission over 2000 km over terrestrial G.652 optical fiber.
ZTE claims that its platform reduces power consumption by 68% compared to industry standard 800G fixed modules. This strategic approach will help achieve Turkcell's sustainability policy goal of establishing a green, low-carbon optical network.
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