Waveserver family
High-capacity, compact, modular transport devices
The Waveserver® family of stackable interconnect platforms delivers more capacity and lower power requirements for high-growth, bandwidth-intensive applications. In addition, these platforms provide massive scalability to meet the surging capacity needs of the most demanding cloud applications and data services. With a simple, server-like operational model using open API programmability, Waveserver eases platform integration and facilitates volume deployments.
Features and benefits
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Provides massive scalability and high performance with innovative WaveLogic™ coherent technology
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Provides unique, industry-leading per-wavelength capacities, as high as 1.6 Tb/s
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Increases total fiber capacity with increased spectral efficiency and support for C- and L-bands
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Offers ultra-low power per bit to reduce ongoing energy costs
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Provides a suite of management interfaces and open APIs for automation, provisioning, management programmability, and ease of back-office integration
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Zero-touch provisioning simplifies on-site commissioning and service provisioning to get traffic up and running quickly
Unprecedented: Capacity. Density. Power efficiency.
Drive down cost per bit and reduce energy consumption with high-performance WaveLogic coherent technology, built into Waveserver. Ensure all network links are running efficiently with highly tunable coherent optics, supporting single wavelength line rates as high as 1.6 Tb/s.
Easy operation. Simplified integration.
Tackle automation and integration challenges easily using the Waveserver industry-standard open APIs and modern data models to enable streaming telemetry, declarative configuration, and platform programmability.
Maximum performance.
Any distance.
Remove scalability constraints with high performance that delivers more capacity for any distance application, including single-span data center interconnect, metro ROADM networks, long-haul routes, and subsea links.
Waveserver 5
This compact, 2RU Waveserver platform is optimized for 100GbE and 400GbE applications and provides unmatched scaling capabilities with up to 12.8 Tb/s client and line capacity.
Waveserver Ai
With capacity up to 2.4 Tb/s in 1 RU, combined with a simple-to-deploy operational model, this Waveserver platform delivers the programmability, scalability, and simplicity needed for global interconnect applications.
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