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title: Webinar Replay - Building a Future-proof Optical Highway with 400G ZR+
description: Build a future-proof optical network on an organized spectral plan that maximizes performance, and optimizes for power and cost everywhere else.
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# Building a Future-proof Optical Highway with 400G ZR+

## Watch On-Demand!

The primary mission of optical networks is transporting 100GbE traffic, and soon, 400GbE traffic. Some popular solutions have a less-publicized aspect that can lead to abandoned spectrum. The webinar shows how to avoid that. It explains how to build a future-proof optical network on an organized spectral plan that accomplishes two goals simultaneously: optimizing for performance for dense traffic and long distances and optimizing for power and cost everywhere else.

Watch on-demand as **Jonathan Homa,** [Ribbon's](https://ribboncommunications.com/) Senior Director of Solutions Marketing and **Scott T. Wilkinson, PhD - [Cignal AI's](https://cignal.ai/)**Lead Analyst discuss these topics and more!

**Key Topics for Discussion:**

- Importance of being 400GbE ready.
- How new 400G ZR+ changes the economic equation.
- Optimizing transport for performance versus optimizing for power and cost.
- Tradeoffs between line rates and channel widths (what they don’t tell you).
- How to have your cake (best transport solution today) and eat it too (on a future-proof network).
- Answers to audience questions during Q&A.

## Register to Watch!

- ![Scott T. Wilkinson, PhD](https://learn.rbbn.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Graphics/Employee%20Headshots/scott-wilkinson-200x200.jpg?width=200&height=200&name=scott-wilkinson-200x200.jpg)
  
  ### Scott T. Wilkinson, PhD
  
  #### Lead Analyst
  
  Cignal AI
- ![Jonathan Homa](https://learn.rbbn.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Graphics/Employee%20Headshots/jonathan-homa-200x200.jpg?width=200&height=200&name=jonathan-homa-200x200.jpg)
  
  ### Jonathan Homa
  
  #### Senior Director of Solutions Marketing
  
  Ribbon

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