Two equipment titans Coriant and Alcatel-Lucent entered
the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) small form factor market with targeted packet
optical networking products. Coriant added to its 7100 family of products with
the 7100 Pico™ Packet Optical Transport Platform and Alcatel-Lucent added to its
1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) family of cloud optimized metro products
with its 1830 PSS-4, 8, 16 optical transport platforms. Both of these devices
integrate cleanly into their respective portfolios and are Software Defined
Network (SDN) enabled for dynamic service instantiation.
These products are significant because they validate the need
for higher performance in this growing sector of the packet optical market. Bell
Labs forecasts an increase of metro traffic by 560 percent by 2017. By 2019
there will be 60 percent more data centers in the world’s metro areas and DCI
volumes will increase 400 percent. Why? With cloud-based services, the industry
has recognized the need for data center interconnect (DCI). Initially, service providers
offering XaaS solutions were connecting customers’ data centers to service
providers’ data centers. New requirements
for DCI have grown out of the operators’ needs to deploy very high-capacity,
high-speed, low-latency, efficient transport between their own data center sites. In addition, rich data types such as video, multimedia
mobile backhaul, cloud and data center traffic are also forcing the need for
more intelligent programmability and automation in management of these traffic
patterns. However, because of the size and power constraints of the metro data
centers to date, platforms need to fit strategically into smaller Point of
Demarcation (POD) locations with low power and high cooling requirements. This
is where the DCI small form factor market emerges.
Some key specifications and product comparisons for DCI
Small FF at-a-glance:
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DCI Small FF Requirements
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Coriant 7100 Pico
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ALU 1830 PSS –4, 8, 16
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4 RU Chassis or less
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2 RU
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PSS-4=(2 RU), PSS-8(3 RU), 16(8 RU)
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DWDM w/ Tb/s fiber capacity
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88 DWDM @ 10 & 100G
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8 CWDM, 32 DWDM (400G – 1.6 Tb/s)
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Eth, OTN, SONET
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Eth, OTN, SONET
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Eth, OTN, SONET
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SAN (FICON, etc.)
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SAN interfaces
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SAN interfaces
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Video (DVB, SDI, etc.)
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Video interfaces
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Video interfaces
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40 - 100G+ ntwk interface
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40G
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10G, 100G, 200G
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10GE – 100GE modular I/O
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1, 10 , 100 GE (176 GE max)
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10 , 40, 100 GE (w/112SDX11 card)
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Pwr (AC or DC)
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AC/DC (110/220VAC / -48VDC)
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AC/DC (110/220VAC / -48VDC)
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Open API/SDN mgt
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Transend
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SDN Enabled
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ACG sees a bifurcation of the DCI market between small and multislot form factor devices. The total high-speed DCI market was approximately $400 million in 2013 and is forecasted to grow to $4 billion by 2019. Growth for the DCI small form factor is predicted to be $3 billion by 2019, 97.3 percent CAGR 2014–2019. Growth for the DCI multislot is predicted to be $1 billion by 2019, 27.1 percent CAGR 2014–2019. This market segment is growing because of ADVA, BTI, Ciena, Cisco, Cyan, ECI Telecom, Ekinops, Fujitsu, Huawei, Infinera and ZTE. Who will command the market share? Time will tell but in the meantime ACG is tracking the progress of this exciting market in its new DCI Optical Networking Market Worldwide syndication.
Contact sales@acgcc.com to find out more information or
schedule a meeting with Dennis Ward and Paul Parker-Johnson to discuss this
research.
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