Infinera, Sumitomo Mitsui announce completion of first demonstration

Infinera (INFN) and Sumitomo Electric Industries (SMFG) announced the successful completion of the first demonstration delivering high-speed business services over Sumitomo Electric’s passive optical network infrastructure with Infinera’s ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggable optics. The demonstration validated how Sumitomo Electric can leverage next-generation coherent pluggables to provide improvements to network efficiencies and expand capacity, while also enabling new high-speed business services and supporting next-generation applications such as 5G and edge computing. The demonstration leveraged Infinera’s suite of intelligent coherent pluggable optics compliant with specifications set forth by the Open XR Forum, a multi-source agreement working group for XR optics, the industry’s first point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceiver technology. Sumitomo Electric, a member of the Open XR Forum, conducted the test in its Osaka Works facility using its FSU 7100 10G-EPON OLT product with Infinera’s ICE-X 100G and 400G coherent pluggable transceivers hosted in Sumitomo Electric’s FTU 9100 metro/access aggregation switch.