Apollo 9608

Powerful and Versatile Metro to Core Optical Transport

Apollo 9608 is a powerful and versatile 5RU optical transport platform for metro, core,
and data center applications. It accommodates the entire range of Apollo transponder,
muxponder, ROADM, and amplification blades. Each of its eight slots supports dual 400G
density-power-cost-optimized blades, for a total client plus line platform capacity of 12.8T.
It also supports double-slot blades that delivers two performance-optimized 600G lines, or
a 1.2T line in a combined mode, for the most demanding transport applications.

Apollo optical transport and switching platforms combine to deliver high-performance access-to-core optical networking solutions
at the lowest cost per bit. Highly modular, they are tailorable into solutions that precisely meet current needs, and can evolve
economically to accommodate traffic growth and new technologies. All Apollo platforms support multiservice client interfaces
including 400GbE, as well as alien wavelengths, shared spectrum, and packet services. They are controllable through Muse Domain
Orchestrator, or directly, via open industry-standard interfaces, and can stand by themselves in disaggregated networks such as for
Open Optical Line Systems.

Programmable Open Self-aware Efficient

for SDN for modular for E2E visibility low power and
applications disaggregated solutions and operability high density

Muse Domain Orchestrator

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LightSOFT LightPULSE SDN
NMS Monitoring Applications

Neptune Apollo
Apollo

Data Centers
• 10G - 400G • 50G - 1200G
Apollo Apollo • P2P, rings, hubs Apollo • Mesh, P2P LH

3rd
Apollo Apollo
Party
Alien wavelengths
Shared spectrum Exchanges

Access Metro Core

Data Sheet
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Technical Specifications
Topologies Mesh, hub, ring, linear, point-to-point
Extended C-band
Flexible grid at 6.25GHz resolution
Spectrum
Fixed grid: 50GHz/96ch, 75GHz/64ch, 100GHz/48ch
Super-channel up to 128 channels

Capacity 8 slots for blades, interchangeable across Apollo family of transport platforms
Max platform capacity 12.8T (6.4T client capacity plus 6.4T line capacity)
Ethernet (1GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE, 100GbE, 400GbE)
SDH/SONET (STM-1, 4, 16, 64/OC-3, 12, 48, 192)
Service (client) interfaces SAN (FC-1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 16, 32)
Video (DVB-ASI, SDI 270, HD-SDI 1.5G/3G)
OTU 1, 2, 2e, 3, 4; FlexO
MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 virtual LAN services: E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, and E-Access
Layer 2 interfaces Statistical multiplexing transport aggregation
Connection-oriented transport using integrated 60G Q-in-Q or MPLS-TP switch
AES256-GCM encryption; Diffie-Hellman key exchange with X.509 node authentication,
Security and Encryption
enhanceable with PQC algorithms; FIPS 140-2, level 2; CC EAL2
OTU1 (2.5 Gbps) OTUC2 (200 Gbps)
OTU2/2e (10 Gbps) OTUC4 (400 Gbps)
Network (DWDM) interfaces
OTU3e (40 Gbps) OTUC6 (600 Gbps)
OTU4 (100 Gbps) OTUA (100 to 1200Gbps, in 50Gbps increments)
2-, 4-, 9-, and 20-degree ROADMs (flexible and fixed grid) with OCM and automatic power
equalization and Colorless, Directionless, and Contentionless (CDC) wavelength routing
Optical add/drop multiplexers
Fixed OADM
100% add/drop capacity
EDFA, Raman, Hybrid EDFA/Raman, with embedded optical leveling and control
Amplification Output power: 16 dBm to 26 dBm
Gain: up to 40 dB with/without 10 dB midstage
Protection OCH 1+1, OLP, OMSP, Y Protection, DRI/DNI
Spectrum Switched Optical Network (SSON) - spectrum level
Wavelength Switched Optical Network (WSON) – wavelength level
Restoration
Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON) – service level
1+1, 1+1 forever, preplanned/dynamic protection
HW redundancy All common units/cards: power supply, controllers, fan units
Dimensions 19” width, 221 mm height, 253 mm depth, 8 service slots
Power input -40.5 VDC to -75 VDC, AC mains
Operating temperature: -5C to +55C
Environmental
Relative humidity: 5% to 90% (non-condensing)
SDN Muse Optical Domain Controller and Applications
Network management LightSOFT® end-to-end, point-and-click network management
Performance monitoring LightPULSE™ integrated real-time OSNR and other parameters, and integrated OTDR
Control interfaces Netconf/Yang open interface
Specifications subject to change without notice

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