stc Group has partnered with Huawei Technologies to complete its first long-haul 800G-per-channel trial on a live network in the MENA region.
Victor Zhou, Huawei’s president of Optical Transmission Domain, said, “stc Group networks can use 800G-per-channel to transport more data for every wavelength deployed across longer distances without regeneration, which reduces power and transport costs, and supports efficiency standards across stc Group’s infrastructure.”
“This long-haul 800G live trial in the stc network is a significant milestone in the ultra-high-speed optical industry,” Zhou added.
The trial was conducted on stc’s live optical network between Riyadh and Makkah at a distance of over 1,000 km. According to Huawei, the live colorless-directionless-contentionless (CDC) network used a high-performance 800G-per-channel optical module powered by a built-in high baud bandwidth modulator and super 16QAM modulation with a channel-matched shaping (CMS) 2.0 algorithm.
The live trial demonstrates not only that the technology works, but also that stc’s systems can monitor and sustain complex link environments in real-time.
