TORONTO – Ontario’s advanced research and education network ORION has completed the first phase of a major upgrade to deploy a 100G operational network of more than 5,800 kilometres of fibre in the province.
The first segment of the network to go live with the 100G provisioning spans 312 kilometres from London to St. Catharines, with 3 In-Line Amplifier sites in between. Alcatel-Lucent’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch provision 100G, which uses next-generation coherent technology, transmits 100G over a single DWDM wavelength (single laser).
The upgrade, which was announced last October, will build on the network foundation as Ontario’s enabling innovation backbone, with greater capacity to support research and commercialization, advanced teaching and learning, public and private sectors partnerships and global-scale science and research collaborations.
"This is exciting news for the 1.8 million researchers, faculty, students and innovators in Ontario who have access to ORION," said Dr. Darin Graham, president and CEO, in the announcement. "Moving from 10G to 100G is a generational leap forward in capabilities and a significant technological milestone. It helps move Ontario to the head of the pack in terms of having an extraordinary backbone in place to support new and innovative ways of enabling advanced research, innovation and scientific discovery."
