ICE6 800Gb/s high performance coherent optics
Minimize optical costs with industry-leading performance over any network with 800Gb/s
The sixth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE6) delivers 1.6 Tb/s in a single optical engine with two independently programmable wavelengths operating at up to 800 Gb/s each. Utilizing a 7-nm CMOS process node DSP and advanced multi-channel photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology, ICE6 leverages high baud rates, high modem SNR and innovative features to break performance and spectral efficiency barriers, including 800G single-wavelength performance over 1,000+ km in a commercial network. ICE6 is also shattering optical transmission expectations at lower rates, including 600 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s per wavelength.
Available as part of the 1830 GX Series, ICE6 enables network operators to meet the demands of rapid growth by providing high network capacity over long haul distances, resulting in a solution with the lower cost and power per bit and high spectral efficiency. With Instant Bandwidth, ICE6 extends service providers’ ability to rapidly increase, move and retire transmission capacity when and where needed.
Benefits and features
Increase capacity-reach
Operating at 96 GBaud for ICE6 and over 100 GBaud for ICE6 Turbo, network operators can maximize wavelength capacity-reach over a wide range of wavelength speeds, including 800 Gb/s up to 1,000+ km, 600 Gb/s up to 3,000+ km and 400 Gb/s up to 7,500+ km, with even longer distances possible in submarine networks.
Leverage innovative features
ICE6’s innovative features include second-generation Nyquist subcarriers, long-codeword probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS), dynamic bandwidth allocation and SD-FEC gain sharing. Additional advanced features include high-performance FEC, advanced telemetry, wire-speed encryption and the ability to load-balance client traffic across wavelengths.
Maximize fiber capacity
Spectral efficiency of 8.833 bits/s/Hz and total C-band capacity of 42.4 Tb/s can be achieved with 800G wavelengths, with C+L-band enabling more than 80 Tb/s.
Key enabling features maximizing spectral efficiency over longer distances include minimized roll-off, a shared wavelocker, long-codeword probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS), 64QAM modulation, dynamic bandwidth allocation, super-channels, and a low-overhead Ethernet framing mode.
Lower operational costs
ICE6 enables platform power consumption of less than 0.2 watts/Gb/s and can deliver up to 6.4 Tb/s of coherent bandwidth in the 3RU 1830 GX G42. Operational costs are further reduced with fully flexible client-to-line mapping.
Use cases
The 800G-per-wave ICE6 delivers cost-effective, spectrally efficient, scalable capacity to all optical networking market segments:
- Metro networks delivering 800G per wave
- Long-haul networks delivering 600G or 400G per wave
- C+L-band engine availability supports 9.6 THz of fiber spectrum
- High-capacity data center interconnect for webscale and wholesale operators
- Submarine networks of all cable types ranging from modern SDM cables to legacy dispersion-managed cables
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