2. CAILabs in a few words
1
Unique technology
Multi Plane Light
Conversion
20
Employees
€3.6M
Raised
5
Patents
3
Major product
lines
2 Pb/s
KDDI fiber capacity
world record using
CAILabs system
Prize :
Digital
In-Pulse
CDA
Partnership
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3. Beyond the usual properties...
Power Wavelength Polarization Phase
... control the shape of the light in the fiber
Multi-mode fiber
Our expertise : Shape of the light
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4. Technical (7 PhDs) and industrial expertise (Huawei,
Safran, Manlight…)
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Guillaume
Labroille
Founder & CTO
Telecom – PhD
First prototype of
Spatial Mux.
Pu Jian
CMO
ENS – PhD
KDDI World record
Jean-François
Morizur
Founder & CEO
ENS - PhD
Boston Consulting
Group
6. Multi-mode fibers > 220m restrict bit rates
Multi-mode fibers (MMF) represent 85% of inter-building fibers
- OM1 / OM2 / OM3 / OM4 fibers
- Maximum bit rate depends on the type and length of multi-mode fiber
Abandon entire multi-mode network by redeploying single-mode fiber ?
Maximum length 100 Mb/s 1 Gb/s 10 Gb/s
OM1 2000 m 550 m 220 m (~40m)
OM2 2000 m 600 m 220 m (~80m)
OM3 2000 m 600 m 330 m
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7. AROONA: Overcoming limitations of multi-mode fibers
X400 capacity
- Up to 4 channels at 10Gb/s for fibers up to 10km
- Several ranges depending on the network topology (point to point, star, POL)
- WDM compatible – 40G, 100G…
Compatible with standard fibers and transceivers
- Any type of multi-mode fiber 62.5/125 µm or 50/125 µm
- Any type of single-mode transceiver
- Transparent to communication protocol (ethernet, fiber-channel…)
Reduced cost
- 3 times cheaper than a fiber roll-out; up to 10 times cheaper if complexities exist
- Passive system: no additional costs of consumption, cooling, monitoring
- Installation takes only few hours
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8. AROONA-P2P
Two buildings are connected by a long multi-mode
fiber
- Bit rates limited to 1 Gb/s (or even 100 Mb/s)
Installation of AROONA-P2P at each end
- 4 duplex links at 10 Gb/s up to 10 km
- 4 SMF fiber pairs inside a MMF fiber pair
- Without any need to change the fiber
”Deployment at Université de Rennes 1
clearly shows AROONA’s potential to
meet the need for demands for higher
LAN bandwidth. The ease of
implementation of AROONA is a key
feature to avoid new fiber deployment”
Arnaud Mérel, infrastructure
manager, Université Rennes 1
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9. AROONA-STAR
Upgrades the network with a single component
- 10 Gb/s over all branches of a star LAN (instead of 100Mb/s or 1Gb/s)
- Up to 6 branches
- 100 Gb/s compatible
AROONA-STAR ‘only at the core of the network’ – No installation required at remote sites
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10. AROONA-POL
AROONA-POL facilitates the transition to Passive Optical LAN on existing
infrastructure
No need to do complex fiber roll-out between buildings and into risers
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11. Customer feedback
AROONA-P2P solution enabled the Urban Community of Alençon to modernize its
network infrastructure without deploying new fibers
76% cost saving compared to an upgrade of the infrastructure by recabling
«We were confronted with bottlenecks over
several fiber links for many years. We had
considered deploying new single-mode
fibers, but given the location of our buildings
in the city center, the cost was prohibitive .
AROONA has been the ideal solution to us, it
is a real boon for us.»
Jean-Paul Genevoix, CIO of Alençon
Urban Community
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12. Customer feedback
AROONA-POL solution has enabled IBM to renovate the LAN of CEREMA to a Passive
Optical LAN archtitecture with Tellabs GPON equipments without recabling
37% savings compared to recabling (installation cost included)
« We wanted to implement an innovative
and environmentally friendly solution. The
ease of implementation of GPON solution
with AROONA-POL and the smoothness of
operation fascinated us.»
Gil Romand, CIO of CEREMA
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13. Deployment typology
Any type of LAN with remote buildings linked by multi-mode fibers:
- Enterprise campus / Factory
- Hospitals
- Theme park / Ski resort
- Military base
- University campus
- Urban community
- Business park
- Airport
They trust us ans deliver the Aroona solution
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14. Phase #1 : 4 links from 100m to 400m, free cable ducts
Phase #2 : 2 links of 250m and 400m, free cable ducts
SMF roll-out Vs. AROONA Star
BOM : fiber, connectorization, optical rack,…
Services : project study, pulling cable, optical acceptance testing,…
Integrator margin indicated to 30%
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15. MMF link of 2000m
Cable duct : free and uncrushed ; pulling room available
SMF roll-out vs AROONA P2P
(Integrator margin indicated at 30% on Aroona)
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19. Light shaping technology
- Based on proprietary MPLC technology (Multi-Plane Light Conversion)
- Combines several light beams into a single one through reflections on textured
surfaces
- Many applications in telecom and industry
Morizur et al. (2010). Programmable unitary spatial mode manipulation.
Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 27, 2524.
Video on http://www.cailabs.com/technology/
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20. How does it work? AROONA avoids modal
dispersion
Capacity limitation in conventional multimode fibers is due to modal dispersion
Aroona avoids modal dispersion by coupling and detecting precisely the modes of the
fiber
Conventional multi-
mode input
Degraded signal
Different modal speeds
Entrée sur
des modes
spécifiques
La séparation des
groupes de modes
permet de récupérer
les signaux non
dégradés
Separating mode
groups recovers
undegraded signals
Input on
specific
modes
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