Juniper Networks today said Kazakhtelecom JSC has demonstrated a 100 Gigabit-per-second (100G) optical network connection in a live field trial.
The telecom service provider is working to expand its fiber optic network to transmission rates of 100G addressing the demand for faster broadband services from businesses and consumers in Kazakhstan.
Coriant and Juniper Networks are supplying the Integrated Packet Transport Network (IPTN) to build a converged packet optical national backbone for Kazakhtelecom JSC.
The IPTN field trial featured provisioning of 100G services across a seamless and resilient Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) infrastructure optimized for existing and new high-speed services and applications in and through the Kazakhtelecom JSC network.
The IPTN field trial ran 1,575 km between Aktobe and Astana allowing Kazakhtelecom JSC to conduct the field trial alongside an existing 100G coherent network carrying live traffic, demonstrating the engineering robustness of the IPTN network architecture.
Juniper Networks said during the trial on this link, which included spans reaching up to 130 km in length, the network performed perfectly with a zero bit error rate and sufficient margin to cover future network expansion.
“We currently have over 50 projects dedicated to the development and upgrade of our fixed line and mobile networks across Kazakhstan,” said Nurlan Merimanov, managing director of Innovations, Kazakhtelecom JSC.
The IPTN solution shows that Kazakhtelecom JSC can reduce the operational costs and decrease the delay in provisioning of new services in the IP layer as well as in the optical transport layer, said Paul Obsitnik, vice president of Service Provider Marketing, Juniper Networks.
The telecom operator serves more than 3.33 million subscribers of fixed lines. Telephone density in Kazakhstan is about 23.4 fixed lines per 100 people.
