OREANDA-NEWS. On May 13, 2008 Huawei Technologies ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, announced that Huawei has been successfully deployed the industry’s longest 40G commercial transport network with no electric regeneration for TransTeleCom, which is the top three fixed telecom carrier in Russia, reported the press-centre of TransTeleCom.

The network connects Moscow and Saint Petersburg, with OSNCP protection mechanisms, and creates the industry's longest 40G commercial networks transmission record with maximum length of 1140 km.

The DWDM transport network between Moscow to Saint Petersburg is the busiest section of TransTeleCom’s backbone network.

Huawei 40G transport solution implements the industry’s innovation technology that can greatly uplift the transport capability of the 40G.The solution can be upgraded from 10G to 40G smoothly without any existing platform replacement and can save 75% time cost of the new services deployment.

The solution adopts the patent SuperWDM technologies of Huawei to realize ultra long haul transmission by over 1500 km transmission without electrical regeneration. Furthermore, the C-band extension patent technology can help operator increase extra 20% fiber transmission bandwidth, which makes Huawei the unique vendor with the largest transmission capacity of 3.84T in the industry. The solution can protect the investment of the operator with the innovative inverse multiplexing technology, which ensures 40G signals transmit in the current fibers and systems.

Evgeniy Zhukov, head of optical network group of Huawei products and solutions department, says: “Even today large telecom operators meet the challenging issue of insufficient capacity of their backbone transport network, because the existing DWDM systems cannot process traffic volumes of the nearest 2-3 years. Presently the most viable solution is the application of new technologies, supporting 40G transfer per wavelength. Operation of 40G channels significantly increases capacity and efficiency of further commercial operation of the existing DWDM system, saving investments to their construction. Huawei Technologies is the first company in Russia to demonstrate operability of 40G technologies in real networks”.

According to Andrei Pavlov, Senior vice-president, head of TTC technical development department, “From 2009 all DWDM backbone of TransTeleCom Company will be gradually updated to 40G transfer per wavelength. It is a natural stage of backbone development, which is necessary to satisfy constantly growing demand for bandwidth. Thanks to Huawei advanced DWDM equipment, that 40 G channels can be activated in shortest terms without essential restructuring of the existing network and, what is very important for our customers, without communication interruption in the operating channels”.

As the leader of the global commercial 40G technology provider, Huawei 40G system has already deployed in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and so on. By the end of 2007, Huawei had deployed over 650,000 sets of OptiX optical network series in more than 100 countries or regions. According to the statistics of Ovum RHK, Huawei has been ranking No. 1 in the optical network market in Asia Pacific since 2001 and was the fastest-growing equipment vendor in the global optical network market with a market share of 14%, which was the second biggest in the world.