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Infinera submarine goes deeper with Transatlantic routes
Latest solution claimed to enable submarine service providers to deliver new benefits whilst simultaneously increasing the space and power efficiency of the land-based submarine system.
Infinera has successfully deployed a transatlantic route of over 6,000 kilometers for a major global telecommunications service provider. The new route provides the service provider 1.76 Terabits/second (Tb/s) of optical capacity on a single fiber pair.
The Infinera Submarine Solution uses double-density technology to enable wavelengths to be implemented on a 25 GHz channel grid and provides a doubling of density or capacity compared to traditional DWDM optical systems implemented on a 50 GHz channel grid.
The first Infinera Submarine Solution launched last year was very popular and is already deployed in submarine networks in North America, the Caribbean, and South America.
Based on the Infinera DTN, the latest offering is designed to give end users numerous significant benefits over traditional submarine systems. Whilst increasing capacity, it is also intended to enable a submarine service provider to deliver new services while simultaneously increasing the space and power efficiency of the land-based submarine system. An innovative dispersion management solution is engineered to simplify dispersion management.
The Digital Optical Networks architecture is based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and is intended to enable quick and easy deployment, provisioning, and management of the network, often reducing the time it takes to add new services to the system from months to days.
The Infinera system is designed to enable service providers to accommodate demand growth without the need to invest in their subsea infrastructure. "We believe that Infinera is an ideal solution for those subsea service providers seeking to update their plant and increase their capacity without incurring large capital expenditures," commented Mike Guess, Infinera Vice-President of Network Architecture. "With the completion of this project, the Infinera Submarine Solution is now deployed on over 50,000km of submarine cable systems."
