Spirent, China Telecom and Huawei in 400GE trials

Spirent Communications collaborates with China Telecom, Guangzhou Research Institute and Huawei to verify 400GE port functions for short and long-range tech The test, which the company says “is the first of its kind”, included the verification of 400Gbps Ethernet port functions such as line-speed forwarding, multi-service stacking, and fault reporting. Zhou Jiaxin, sales director for Spirent Communications, said: “The joint innovation endeavour of the Guangzhou Research Institute, Huawei and Spirent lays a solid foundation for the industry-wide maturity of 400GE technologies, marking the threshold for the commercialisation of next generation high capacity port technologies provided by 400GE.”