The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) announced its intent to specify a framework for Flex Coherent DWDM Transmission in long haul, metro, and data center inter-connections. The idea is to enable the following flexible transceiver attributes: modulation formats, symbol rates, and number of subcarriers.
Flex Coherent DWDM will outline a software-defined optics ecosystem that initially leverages past and current OIF projects for tunable lasers,...
