wiredinUSA May 2019

In-house exhibition

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Exhibition time for Wafios

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Wafios will hold its 12 th in-house exhibition from 8 th to 11 th May at its Wuppertal, Germany premises. Wafios AG and Wafios Umformtechnik, Wafios Tube Automation GmbH, Witels- Albert GmbH and E W Menn GmbH & Co KG will be presenting their own products and services, together with a number of invited co-exhibitors from the wire and tube forming industry. A program of lectures on new spring, wire and tube forming technologies will be complemented by presentations on current topics such as the Wafios Smart Factory (Industry 4.0) or E-Mobility, and a guest speaker from the metal forming faculty of the University of Siegen will complete the range with a lecture entitled “Cyber Set-Up 4.0 — expert to go”. There will be several world firsts among the exhibited machines, including the flexible BM36 wire-bending machine for producing large quantities, and the G660 spring end grinding machine for large wire diameters up to 12mm.

Nokia, in partnership with the Polish service provider Netia, has conducted a field trial of its Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) over a live production network. Netia’s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) backbone, based on the Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS), is designed to enable seamless upgrade to high baud rate wavelengths, allowing the carrier to significantly increase data rates for links of any distance. The companies say that deployment of the Nokia PSE-3 powered line cards will improve fiber capacity while lowering costs and simplifying operations. Netia has over 50,000kmof fiber connecting office buildings throughout Poland. In the trial, wavelengths driven by the PSE-3 and operating at 62–68Gbd, traveled across the provider’s flex-grid infrastructure in 75GHz channels. Network paths currently supporting 100G and 200G wavelengths were shown to support greater than 300G and 500G respectively, more than doubling network capacity. The Nokia PSE-3 utilizes probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS), a signal processing technique developed by Nokia Bell Labs, that finely adjusts the optical signal to maximize the data-carrying capacity of DWDM optical wavelengths over any distance.

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