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All-Optical Switching Solutions

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• Polatis Overview

• What is Fiber Switching

• Polatis Technology

• Optical Switching Markets and Applications

• Polatis Product Line

• Summary

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HUBER+SUHNER Polatis – All Optical Switching

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HUBER+SUHNER Polatis at a glance

Company

• Est. in 2000, acquired by H+S June 2016

• Offices in Cambridge (UK), Boston (USA) and Krakow (Poland)

• Over 6 billion port-hours accumulated on 2500+ systems in service

• Global customer base (200+) in diverse markets

Technology

• Transparent physical layer all-optical matrix switch

• Best available performance (typ <1dB optical loss)

• Highest-port count (384x384) optical switch available

• Broadest optical switch product range, from 4x4 to 384x384 and

everything in between

1RU 48x48 All-Optical Switch

4RU 384x384 All-Optical Switch

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A Circuit Switch - Not a Packet Switch (Router)

• Does not selectively route IP packets

• Switches all data on the fiber

OOO Switch - Not an OEO switch

• Does not convert Optical into Electrical (to switch it) and back into Optical (OEO)

• Optical input, Optical switch core, Optical output (OOO)

• Switches light from one fiber to another

• No timing jitter, no latency, no data corruption

What is an All-Optical Switch?

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Any wavelength that propagates through optical fiber

• Single mode: 1260-1675 nm wavelength

• Multimode: 850 and 1300 nm

Any signal that can be put into a fiber

• Digital data of any rate, and of any format

• DC to 400 Gbps+

• Audio, video, data, …

• Analog data of any rate, and of any format

• RF over fiber

• Video

• Optical Sensor data (i.e. oil field sensors)

Any signal you can put in fiber

can be switched

What types of signals can an all-optical switch route?

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Why fiber switching?

…optical switching enables dynamic connectivity

• Cable once, reconfigure remotely

• Provision in milliseconds not days / weeks

• Avoid cost, power, delay of unnecessary OEO conversions

• Create transparent paths with near zero data latency

• Maintain inventory of cross-connects in management software

From automated patch panel ……

…..to software defined networking.

The fiber layer is (mostly) static…

• Manual moves, adds and changes are slow

and prone to error

• Unstructured cabling consumes duct capacity

over time

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DirectLight® Optical Switch Technology

• DirectLight® free-space optical switch technology connects fibres with the best possible optical performance

• Patented 2D piezo beam-steering with integrated position control delivers dependable connectivity

• Transparent, proven, reliable technology maintains robust connections even on dark fibre

Integrated position sensor

Digital position feedback

2D piezo actuator

Fibre collimator

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Polatis Optical Switch Configuration Options

Switch Sizes

o Singlemode 4x4 to 384x384

o Standard matrix or customer configurable

Physical Interface Options

o Ethernet, USB, serial

o Dual Hot Swap NIC

Connectors

o LC, LC-HD, FC, SC, MTP, ST

o Front or rear connectors

Control Protocols

o WebGUI, SNMP, TL1, SCPI

o Secure web server

o OpenFlow, NETCONF, RESTCONF

True Transparency

o 1270-1675nm

o Bidirectional, dark fiber

o DC to 100Gbs+

o DWDM, RF, coherent …

Power

o AC, 48 VDC

o Dual hot-swap power options

Power Monitoring Options

o Loss of signal alarms

o Automated protection switching

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Polatis Optical Switch Product Line

OPM – optical power monitor

APS – automatic protection switching

VOA – variable optical attenuation

Matrix Size TechnologyOptional

FunctionsKey Features

4x4

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16x16

DirectLightTM

Multimode

• World’s only multimode fibre matrix switch

• Supports OM1 and OM3/OM4 fibers

• Available in NxN, MxN configurations

4x4

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192x192;

192-fiber

DirectLightTM

Single mode

OPM

APS

VOA

• Low insertion loss / superior optical specs

• Carrier class interfaces (SNMP, TL1, etc.)

• Available in NxN and MxN configurations

• Single sided N-fibre variants available

• SDN enabled with OpenFlow and NETCONF

4, 8 or 16 Rx/Tx

line pairs

Protection

Services

DirectLightTM

Single mode

• Compact 1+1 optical layer protection

• Up to 16 services in 1RU, < 25 watts

• Pre-configured, drop in APS system

• Automatic LOS protection & restoration

208x208

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384x384

DirectLightTM

Single mode

OPM

APS

VOA

• Superior optical specs

• NxN and MxN configurations

• SDN enabled carrier-class interfaces

• Low power, resilient architecture

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Series 6000 Specifications

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Polatis SDN User Interfaces

Modular architecture with multiple user interfaces for diverse applications

Embedded OpenFlow 1.4 agent enables integrated optical circuit and packet switch control plane

NETCONF & RESTCONF interfaces implement Polatis YANG models with Cisco Tail-f ConfD

HW Interface

OXC OPM BSP

Logic

Controls Reports Data

User services

SCPI OpenFlowSNMPTL1WebUI NETCONF

API

RESTCONF

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Optical System Test Automation• Component testing

• Board and system level testing

Telecom and Mobile Networks• Fibre layer virtualisation

• Provisioning, protection and test access

Datacentre Networks• Aggregation and load balancing

• Datacentre interconnection

Government and Defence• Satellite ground station uplink

• RFoF distribution

• Datacentre cyber security

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HUBER+SUHNER Polatis – Optical Switching Markets & Applications

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Optical Switching for 5G C-RAN Networks

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Edge Computing

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Internet

SDN Controlled OXC

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optical switches are used to

provide fiber layer

provisioning, protection, and

monitoring of fiber optic

front- haul links in C-RAN

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optical switches are used to

provide low latency, high

capacity, reconfigurable

interconnect fabric for

disaggregated data centres

for edge computing and

zero touch provisioning of

DCI links

Optical switch Module

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Optical Switching for the Data Center

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Data Center Aggregation

Server Farm / Multi-Tenant DC’s

Networks / Peering

Polatis Switches can be used by multi-tenant DC providers for “on-

demand” interconnection of clients within data centers or client

user-programmable interconnection within Tenant cages

Software defined Network (SDN) controlled “hybrid”

OEO / OOO architecture allows more efficient

handling of large intra-server farm data flows

Polatis Switches are used to provision, protect,

and monitor metro networks enabling value

added services

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Optical Switching for Government & Defence Applications

Polatis all-optical switches are used to dynamically provision, protect & monitor signal

sources to signal analysers for dynamic target tasking in intelligence collection systems

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Polatis OXC + integrated OPM/VOA

Test Equipment

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H+S Polatis Multiplies the Efficiency of Optical Test Solutions

Polatis all-optical switches are used to

dynamically reconfigure DUT-to-test

equipment connections for rapid, automated,

optical testing

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Polatis Has Significant Advantages for Network Test Labs

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Reconfigure your test lab in seconds

Automates application development, QA and testing

Ultra-low loss and Loss Repeatability

Dark fiber switching to pre-configure network topologies and simulate network faults and degradations

Transmission format and speed independent to work with all types of traffic signals

Available in symmetric (NxN), asymmetric (NxM) and single-sided “any-to-any” (NxCC) configurations to support a wide range of lab needs

Integrated Variable Optical Attenuator (VOA) functionality for sensitivity and dynamic range testing

Integrated programmable shutter function enables testing of intermittent fiber breaks

Supports a broad range of Software Defined Networking (SDN) Interfaces

Integrates seamlessly with test automation platforms such as QualiSystems and Spirent

Transport Equipment

Optical Test Equipment

OEO Switches and Routers

Customer Premise

Equipment

Optical Fiber

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Optical Switching for Broadcast Video Routing

• Quality HD video routing from multiple camera positions to downtown studio

• WDM optics combines upstream control and downstream video on single fibre

• Future-proof, format-independent connectivity for 4K and beyond

• Outside broadcast for premier motorsport series

• Trackside receivers relay in-car video & telemetry as RF-on-fibre to OB studio

• Optical cross-connects provide provisioning, protection and Rx power levelling

Key Requirements:• Superior optical performance to maintain a strong signal

• Ability to handle strong bi-directional signals

• Fast switching speeds for clean transitions

• Capacity to eliminate manual switches and patch panels

• High reliability for live broadcast applications

NASA Launch Video Distribution

Polatis All-Optical switches route multi-format

HD launch video from multiple sources to

multiple destinations

Launch Site NASA Control Room

Briefing RoomBroadcasters

96x96 Polatis Switch

Outside Broadcast Studio

Quick Deploy FO Cables

Race Circuit

Optical Switch192x192 Polatis Switch

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Summary

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Polatis provides the industry’s highest performance, broadest line of all-optical switches and modules with rich software functionality for simple network integration

Optical circuit switching is now a proven, reliable and cost-effective resource for dynamic connectivity at the fiber layer

Integration of optical circuit switching under a common SDN control plane enables rapid provisioning, protection, reconfiguration and test directly at the fiber layer

Load balancing and selective routing using hybrid packet-optical switch architectures promise significant gains in datacenter efficiency, throughput & latency

Fiber layer cross-connects facilitate virtualization of optical resources and allow physical isolation between users

Thank YouHUBER+SUHNER Polatis

213 Burlington Road

Bedford, MA 01730 USA

+1 781 275 5080

332 Cambridge Science Park

Cambridge CB4 0WN UK

+44 1223 424200

info@polatis.com

www.polatis.com