Telia Norway and Ciena have announced that a recent trial achieved 1.6 Tbps through a single optical channel over a 656 km route between Oslo and Trondheim using Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) equipment. The route, among the country’s busiest, included seven reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs), according to Ciena’s statement on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
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