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A Big “Thank You” for Lots of Discussions and Various Input to These Slides Andrew Lord Heidi Adams S. Chandrasekhar Tai Man Xi (Vivian) Chen David Neilson Junho Cho Stojan Radic Andy Chraplyvy Sebastian Randel Ronen Dar Greg Raybon Randy Eisenach Roland Ryf Jim Sandoz Nick Fontaine Takashi Sasaki Steve Grubb Bob Tkach K.-Y. Huang Szilard Zsigmond Steve Korotky If the Past Informs the Future: Expect Exponential Network Traffic Growth • Some big carriers see much less growth (~20 – 30% per year) [G. Wellbrock and T. J. Xia, “How Will Optical Transport Deal With Future Network Traffic Growth?” Proc. ECOC, Th.1.2.1 (2014).] [A. Gerber and R. Doverspike, “Traffic Types and Growth in Backbone Networks,” Proc. OFC, OTuR1 (2011)] • Tutorial_Winzer_OFC2018.pdf • Just in order to double capacity, one needs α_dB γ / 64 2 Tutorial_Winzer_OFC2018.pdf OFC 2018 © OSA 2018 • Matrix of “unit cells” in WDM x SDM space  Replicate simple unit cells • Bandwidth of unit cell driven by high-speed opto-electronics • Bit rate of unit cell driven by symbol rate and modulation format Th1F.4.pdf Pushing Interface Rates to New Limits Commercial Perspective of High Tutorial_Winzer_OFC2018.pdf -Speed Opto-Electronics & DSP OFC 2018 © OSA 2018 • Commercial CMOS ASICs with converters for symbol rates of 100⁺ Gbaud • Commercial 1T interfaces with meaningful transmission reach • Commercial multi -core ASIC DSP processing power of several (10?) Tb/s Future Systems Will be WDM x SDM What Rate-Reach Combinations Might We Find in ca. 2024 ? Tutorial_Winzer_OFC2018.pdf

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