Nokia has introduced new high-capacity shelves for its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) portfolio, aiming to meet the escalating bandwidth demands driven by cloud computing, AI, video streaming, and enterprise services. These next-generation shelves PSS-10hc and PSS-4hc offer up to three times the density and up to 60% lower power consumption per bit compared to previous models. Designed for seamless integration into existing 1830 PSS deployments, they support up to 12Tb/s per slot and are optimized for the latest coherent optical engines. This enhancement allows operators to scale their networks more cost-effectively while protecting prior investments.
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Industry leaders have endorsed this innovation. Vivek Gaur, EVP at Colt, stated, “Nokia’s 1830 PSS-HC shelves are a natural evolution of the current 1830 family of products that we deploy now and hence we anticipate it to enable us to address the growing capacity demands in the network, leverage high-density embedded and coherent pluggable optical engines whilst retaining our existing operational framework.” Ron Johnson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Optical Networks at Nokia, added, “In the era of AI, operators need to scale bandwidth faster and more cost-effectively than ever. The 1830 PSS-hc shelves represent an important evolution of the 1830 PSS family, combining ultra-high density with greater capacity and the PSS rich set of carrier-grade features. With this evolution operators can rapidly deploy high-speed services to keep pace with growing customer demand.”