Apollo Optical Networking

In the AI-driven Internet economy, optical networks need more than just speed—they must be agile, quickly adapting to changing bandwidth demands and self-reconfiguring to ensure continuous service.

Ribbon’s Apollo optical networking platforms, together with its Muse multilayer automation platform, combine high performance and agility. They deliver superior solutions for a wide range of optical networking applications, including DCI, aggregation, metro and long-haul networks, ultra-long-haul and submarine connections, and disaggregated optical line systems.

Key Apollo capabilities include power-cost optimized 400G/800G ZR+ transmission, capacity-reach optimized transmission to 1.2T with maximum spectral efficiency, hitless C-band to L-band expansion, quantum safe encryption, shared spectrum OLS, and access-to-core OTN switching.

Muse enables real-time intelligence and control for Apollo, providing agile optical networks. Links are quickly provisioned, networks reconfigured by pre-planned or dynamic algorithms, and alerts issued for network degradations. Moreover, operators can automate and speed up any process themselves using no-code/low-code tools.