TOKYO, Oct. 31, 2022 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has deployed Africa’s first TIP Phoenix platform for Teraco, Africa’s leading carrier-neutral colocation provider.
NEC is driving the expansion of All-Optical Networks, including the introduction of open, specification-compliant, open optical transport solutions and products aligned with the standard requirements defined by TIP’s Phoenix Initiative. NEC envisions All-Optical Networks as a next-generation green infrastructure that will lead to the realization of digital twins, social transformation and the creation of new services and industries. By providing such products, NEC will help deliver high-capacity, low-latency, multi-link transport networks with advanced security, resiliency and low power consumption. This deployment of TIP Phoenix’s open and disaggregated white box optical transponder in South Africa is an important milestone for NEC as the interoperability of solutions and products that meet TIP Phoenix’s requirements can meet the evolving needs of communications service providers.
This Phoenix solution consists of Wistron Galileo Flex T hardware (WX-T series), the NEC Network Operating System (based on Goldstone open source software) and Lumentum 400G CFP2 pluggable DCO transceivers running between Teraco and data centers are used. The solution is part of Teraco’s latest data center network upgrade plan. NEC and NEC XON, a South Africa-based NEC subsidiary, technology integrator and managed services provider, provided the systems integration support for this solution.
Phoenix, an operator-driven initiative developed by TIP’s Open Optical and Transport (OOPT) Disaggregated Optical Systems (DOS) subgroup, defines the requirements for a 400G optical transponder that will be used in applications such as data center interconnect (DCI) and metro backhaul -Transport is suitable with conventional optical line systems. Phoenix is open and…
