April 21, 2014

Sterlite Technologies Limited announces a milestone technology development in telecommunication space. Sterlite’s Center of Excellence at Aurangabad, India, has successfully established and tested multi-tera bit transmission over long haul network.

A successful Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) test transmission of 80 wavelength channels operating at 128 Gbit/s each spaced at 50 GHz over 1840 km of Sterlite’s G.652.D OH-LITE fibre has been demonstrated for the first time in India.

Huge volumes of data over long distances can now be transmitted; for example, around 85,000 movie files of 700 MB each can now be transferred from Bangalore to Kolkata in a minute.

While explaining the importance of this technology breakthrough, Dr. Badri Gomatam, CTO at Sterlite technologies, says, “In emerging economies, there is a need to plan infrastructure for accommodating faster transmission of huge volumes of data. Our Center of Excellence focuses on end-to-end development of this capacity. Improving the quality of the preform, developing next generation optical fibres, specialised cabling solutions and enhancing network integration capability together contribute to a future proof infrastructure”.

Furthermore, the Center of Excellence has a strong focus to enhance test-bed capability to much higher data rate (e.g. 400Gbit/s per channel) and longer transmission distances. The effort is to accelerate Sterlite’s vision of national competence towards Terabit scale communications for better telecom infrastructure planning at a national level and for Telecommunication operators.