Coherent, Kinetic extend partnership

Coherent and Kinetic by Windstream, a provider of fiber-based connectivity, collaboration, and security services for businesses and homes across an 18-state footprint, announced that their existing partnership to enable 400G services has been extended to enable 100G services at the edge of the network, leveraging the industry’s first 100G QSFP28 0 dBm digital coherent optics transceiver. The rapid growth of data traffic driven by enterprise and cloud networks, including the exponential growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, is driving demand for next-generation transmission technology that enables service providers to efficiently expand the capacity of the transport network. With the new high-power 100G transceivers from Coherent, Kinetic will be able to optically connect routers directly to access, metro, and regional transport networks without additional intermediary interfaces, eliminating an entire layer of optical equipment.