Toward transport ecosystem interoperability enabled by vendor-diverse coherent optical sources over an open line system

Optical line-side interoperability is a critical component for enabling cloud service providers to deploy capacity at scale with a diverse supply chain. Historically, vendor-locked line systems and proprietary coherent digital signal processing (DSP) technologies have been barriers to this goal. Advances in open line platforms and coherent interfaces embedded directly in layer-2/3 switches and rou...