Nokia Windstream Wholesale, Colt Technology Services partner in IP connection

Nokia, Windstream Wholesale or WW, an optical technology leader in advanced network solutions, and Colt Technology Services, announced the successful completion of a world-first 800 Gigabit Ethernet – 800GbE – service trial connecting London, UK with Chicago, US across an 8500km subsea and terrestrial route over the production network. The trial showcased power-saving networking technologies from the three global tech businesses to test the boundaries of next-generation wavelength, capacity, speed and latency between two of the world’s largest financial trading hubs. The field trial involved connecting one of Colt’s five powerful transatlantic subsea cables and part of its terrestrial fiber optic network with Windstream Wholesale’s domestic U.S. optical fiber Intelligent Converged Optical Network monitoring speed and performance. Together, Colt and Windstream Wholesale have partnered to demonstrate the world’s first transoceanic 800 GbE end-to-end service transport from router to router over 1Tbps optical transport. The trial was successfully delivered using Nokia’s pioneering sixth-generation Photonic Service Engine coherent optics and 7750 Service Router routing platforms boosting. 800G marks a breakthrough in service bandwidth, doubling capacity to support advanced network applications like AI data center networking, content delivery networks, and financial data hub connections.The organizations are currently exploring options to bring 800GbE connectivity services to market for global business customers.