ADVA today announced that CSC - IT Center for Science, which operates the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET) and the Swedish University Computer Network (SUNET), have conducted a world-first trial carrying data at 400Gbit/s over more than 10,000 km. Using both FUNET and SUNET, the demo harnessed the ADVA FSP 3000 TeraFlex CoreChannel to transmit services at unprecedented line speeds for a live ultra-long-haul network. The trial shows how data-intensive applications can be connected over inter-continental distances using existing links. This offers significant benefits to FUNET and SUNET customers in the R&E community who will be able to leverage high-throughput technologies and collaborate by sharing huge data sets over longer distances than ever before.

"Our multi-domain field trial with the ADVA FSP 3000 TeraFlex CoreChannel terminal evaluated flexibility and the terminal's capabilities to adapt to use cases where ultra-long-haul 400GbE services are needed. The results that were achieved - trans-oceanic reach over terrestrial systems - were far beyond our expectations and typical real-life service requirements," said Jani Myyry, senior network specialist at FUNET. "Nordic research and education networks are shifting towards a federated next-generation model where optical spectrum resources are shared within the region. We have already built multiple programmable cross-border interconnection links between the FUNET and SUNET ADVA open line systems to exchange spectrum transparently. The trial utilized these interconnection links and the FUNET and SUNET network footprint to create the extremely transparent optical routes used during the tests."