FS 400G DCI Solution: Achieving Stable and Efficient High-Capacity Networking

With the rapid acceleration of business cloudification, the number of servers in large-scale cloud data centers is continually growing, reaching tens of thousands. Data volumes exceed 1000PB, and the horizontal traffic between data centers is increasing exponentially. Consequently, constructing ultra-broadband, intelligent, and green energy-efficient data center interconnect (DCI) networks is becoming a trend.

3 Challenges in Building a DCI Network

Growing Network Capacity Needs

By 2025, it is estimated that 90% of business operations will be cloud-based, with data centers serving as the primary infrastructure to support this shift. As a result, data center sizes are rapidly increasing. The volume of traffic between data centers (east-west traffic) is expected to grow fourfold over five years, presenting substantial challenges in managing and transmitting this massive data efficiently.

Extended Transmission Distances and Low Latency Requirements

As data centers move from high-cost urban centers to more cost-effective remote locations, the distance between data centers and end-users has significantly increased. This geographical dispersion brings forth the challenge of maintaining efficient data transmission over longer distances while also meeting stringent low latency demands, which are critical for ensuring seamless user experiences.

Efficient Service Deployment Needs

In the era of cloud computing, rapid deployment of services has become a key expectation, with industry benchmarks measured in days or even minutes. This necessitates a level of agility and responsiveness in service delivery between data centers that poses a formidable challenge. Meeting these high expectations for swift and reliable service deployment requires overcoming significant operational hurdles.

4 Requirements for DCI Solution Design

Cost-effective and Stable Upgrade Solutions

With the rapid increase in data volumes, network upgrades from 10G to beyond 100G are imperative. Expanding data center capacity and bandwidth entails significant financial investments, given the high costs of equipment and materials, coupled with substantial ongoing maintenance expenses. Therefore, a solution that offers both cost-effectiveness and stability is crucial.

Centralized Management and Comprehensive Performance Monitoring

The complexity of managing a large-scale network, compounded by numerous devices and intricate systems, requires integrating and collecting data from multiple networks, sub-networks, and diverse sources. This complexity makes network management time-consuming and error-prone, leading to operational inefficiencies. Thus, a solution providing centralized management of devices, comprehensive performance monitoring, and real-time network data insights is essential.

Flexible Product Solutions for Diverse Application Scenarios

Different application scenarios necessitate the use of equipment from various vendors and technologies, making integration both complex and time-consuming. The design and manufacturing of multi-functional devices are costly and complicated to maintain. Consequently, a flexible product solution that can meet varying business requirements and adapt to diverse business changes is necessary.

Expert Technical Team and Timely After-Sales Support

Optical transmission network equipment is inherently complex, posing various technical challenges during solution design and implementation. Without professional team guidance and support, these challenges become more pronounced. An experienced technical support team, coupled with timely after-sales service, is required to help resolve technical issues encountered in network operations, ensuring smooth and efficient network performance.

FS 400G High-Speed DCI solution

The FS DCI solution employs the FS D7000 4MC4 device to achieve highly simplified point-to-point networking. This solution supports 100GE, 400GE, and OTU4 high-bandwidth service access on the client side and 400G transmission rates per wavelength on the line side, scalable up to 48*400G systems to provide a maximum single-fiber capacity of 19.2T. The device supports multiple management methods, including AmpCon-T and WebGUI, ensuring ease of operation and simplified maintenance. By using D7000 series MUX and EDFA, the solution facilitates long-distance wavelength-division multiplexing, making it suitable for both short-distance interconnections between data centers and long-distance backbone traffic.

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AmpCon-T Centralized Management

Ampcon-T is a converged operation and maintenance management platform for enterprises, providing visual management, multi-dimensional monitoring and other functions for enterprise ICT equipment, effectively helping enterprises to improve operation and maintenance efficiency and reduce operation and maintenance costs. AmpCon-T can centrally manage over 500 D7000 series OTN devices, it supports visualized web management, centralized alarms, network telemetry, and comprehensive real-time performance monitoring, which allows for rapid fault localization in complex networks. This ensures efficient transmission network maintenance and improves operational efficiency. Additionally, the reporting platform offers rich graphical representations that intuitively display the overall status of system equipment, including device quantities, business volumes, and alarm conditions, simplifying operations and enhancing management efficiency.

AmpCon-T also enables visual representation of end-to-end business configurations, displaying link connections between network devices to facilitate efficient discovery, monitoring, and configuration of links. The unified topology view constructs and manages the entire network topology, reflecting the arrangement and operational status of network elements, thus providing a comprehensive overview of the network infrastructure.

Benefits of FS 400G DCI Solutions

Ultra-Large Network Bandwidth

The FS solution supports high-speed 400G transmission with a maximum single-fiber capacity of 19.2T. This capability significantly enhances optical fiber utilization while reducing the need for additional fiber investment, making it a highly efficient and cost-effective choice for expanding network bandwidth.

Enhanced Network System Stability

With a simplified optical layer design, the FS solution minimizes or eliminates single points of network failure. Additionally, it supports microsecond-level device latency, enhancing network response speed. The solution also offers main control and power redundancy to ensure continuous and reliable data transmission, thereby improving overall network stability and reliability.

Improved Network Management and Maintenance Efficiency

The solution integrates AmpCon-T, a centralized management system capable of managing over 500 D7000 series OTN devices. It supports real-time data visualization and multi-dimensional performance monitoring. This allows customers to obtain real-time insights into the overall status of the equipment and rapidly identify and address issues, thus significantly enhancing network management and maintenance efficiency.

Versatile Application Scenarios

The D7000 series products are ideal for data center interconnections and the core layer of metropolitan networks, offering a wide array of service interfaces and flexible networking options. This versatility simplifies operations and maintenance management, reduces procurement costs, and makes the D7000 series adaptable for various transmission network deployments.

Professional Technical Support and Hassle-Free After-Sales Service

The FS solution is backed by professional technical support, which includes the design of high-performance, cost-effective solutions tailored to clients' business needs and budgets. Efficient installation services ensure fast project turnaround and cost reduction. Additionally, within the warranty period, FS offers free after-sales repair services, technical support, and remote fault localization. This helps clients identify and resolve network issues, reducing operational costs and risks.