Leveraging 1620LM line terminal equipment, 1620 SOFTNODE will provide webscale connectivity between data centers and Points-of-Presence in different continents. Platform supports distances up to 14,000 km, and enables transmission of 240 Tbit/s on multiple fiber pairs. Single line card provides flexibility to use 100, 200, 300, and 400 Gbit/s data speeds, while true gridless architecture provides capability to tune any wavelength in spectrum down to 33 GHz with no fixed granularity.