Nokia and Rakuten complete 1 Terabit fibre network trial

Finish kit vendor Nokia and Japanese MNO Rakuten have demonstrated a live 1Tbps per channel transmission, which they claim represents a speed increase of 500% on Rakuten’s existing fibre network.
The trial connected data centres 135 km apart in the Japan’s Kanto region and was supposed to demonstrate the ability to scale network capacity over Nokia’s open optical line system infrastructure.
The resulting 1 Terabit per second per channel transmission over Rakuten Mobile’s