Social media giant Facebook has deployed Infinera Intelligent Transport Network to power terrestrial optical network route.
Facebook has deployed the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network on the 3,998 kilometers route without any regeneration. The new route capable of delivering up to eight terabits per second (Tb/s) of data transmission capacity is enough capacity to stream over one million high-definition videos at the same time.
Facebook’s European terrestrial network stretches from its Lulea, Sweden, datacenter across major hubs throughout Europe.
Tom Fallon, Infinera CEO, said: “Facebook is an example of how leading Internet content providers are building global networks that interconnect their datacenters to accelerate the delivery of high bandwidth, feature rich services worldwide.”
Facebook deployed Infinera DTN-X platform to connect these hubs to deliver terabits of capacity on a single fiber across the continent.
Facebook delivers to its European network 100 gigabit per second (Gb/s) coherent transmission via 500 Gb/s super-channels, featuring a forward-scale design to support 1.2 Tb/s super-channels in the future. The high capacity super-channels are enabled by 500 Gb/s photonic integrated circuits (PICs) developed and fabricated by Infinera.
Infinera said that the DTN-X also features SDN-ready application programming interfaces that enable network programmability and automation of network operations to reduce both operational cost and service delivery times while facilitating new services.
“The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network makes it easy for us to rapidly grow network capacity while keeping operations simple,” said Niclas Comstedt, director of Network Engineering at Facebook.
