Siemon has introduced a comprehensive Base 8 Plug and Play system consisting of fibre enclosures, modules, adapters, assemblies and jumpers in the Indian market. The product has been launched with the aim of expanding Siemon’s existing line of lighthouse advanced fibre cabling solutions in the country. The new product is available in optical mode (OM) three and OM four multimodes in both standard and low loss. In the single mode, Siemon’s new Base 8 Plug and Play system features the smaller diameter RazorCore fibre. This significantly reduces the cable diameter of assemblies and provides a message transfer part (MTP) jumper of 2 mm diameter. The system also includes Base 8 MTP to lucent connector (LC) hybrid assemblies as an alternative to modules for supporting 10 Gbps.

At present, multimode fibre applications like the 40 Gbps 40GBASE-SR4 and 100 Gbps 100GBASE-SR4 are deployed for backbone switch-to-switch links in the data centre. These are based on eight optical fibres with four transmitting and four receiving fibres at either 10 Gbps or 25 Gbps. Further, when using the 12-fibre solution for these 8-fibre applications, 33 per cent of the optical fibre goes unused. While conversion cords or modules can be used to enable 100 per cent fibre utilisation, these solutions add additional cost and complexity. To this end, Siemon’s Base 8 Plug and Play system enables 100 per cent fibre utilisation and eliminates the need for conversion cords or modules, while providing a complete end-to-end Base 8-fibre system for efficiently supporting current and future 8-fibre applications. The system also includes Siemon’s high density FCP3 fibre enclosure along with snap-in Base 8 modules. The modules feature three 8-fibre MTPs and 24 LCs to support 10 Gbps applications. Further, MTP adap­ter plates are available to support day-one 40 Gbps or 100 Gbps applications. The system also includes Base 8 MTP to MTP trunk assemblies and jumpers for backbone and equipment connections.

According to the Siemon, current and future fibre applications are all dominated by fibre counts that are divisible by two or eight fibres, including 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps over multimode and single mode. To this end, the use of a Base 8 Plug and Play system offers the simplest, most efficient migration to advanced fibre speeds in the data centre. Customers can deploy Base 8 modules and LC duplex jumpers for 10 Gbps today and easily replace them with adapters and MTP jumpers tomorrow. This helps in seamless transition to 40 Gbps or 100 Gbps and beyond while maintaining maximum fibre utilisation.