Altera to demo 200 & 400G OTN solutions at OFC 2015

The offerings reduce complexity for system architects designing advanced ODU cross-connect systems handling OTN-based transport. Based on Altera’s 20nm Arria 10 FPGAs, and offering a migration path to 14nm Stratix 10 FPGAs, SoftSilicon FPGA-based solutions provide optical equipment manufacturers with standards-based OTN solutions beyond 100Gb/s. Offered as platforms featuring an FPGA with fully integrated IP, the products, which are now available for customer designs, enable equipment manufacturers to streamline their development efforts as they move towards high-capacity transport.

Visitors to Altera's booth can learn more about Altera’s market-leading OTN solutions that can help them achieve 200G, 400G and up to 1Tb throughput in a single device.

Mutema Pittman, Senior Manager, OTN strategic marketing team, Altera, commented: “Altera OTN SoftSilicon products running on Arria 10 FPGAs come at a perfect time for network equipment manufacturers who have found application-specific standard products limited in their flexibility and long-term roadmap. Our latest SoftSilicon products offer a well-defined set of features, pin-out and software APIs validated on reference hardware, providing the shortest time-to-market and because the solutions have been built and validated on systems that closely resemble the target application, they help minimise the development risk for system providers.”