A MARKET VIEW ON 400G – DRIVERS, BENEFITS AND SOLUTIONS
Upgrading to 400G brings a number of benefits to both service provider networks and for enterprise DCI – the most obvious being the possibility to create networks with higher capacity than existing 40G and 100G solutions. But what else does 400G bring to the table to enable smooth and efficient networking?
We asked Smartoptics Optical Transmission Specialist Alley Hameedi to talk about the drivers, benefits and technical standards for 400G.
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