Telecom Lead Europe: SSE Telecoms of the U.K. has
selected Ciena’s coherent 100 Gb/s optical networking technology for its
national network.
SSE Telecoms is deploying Ciena’s 6500
Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic coherent optical
processors to connect its key data centre locations across Britain.
This network enhancement will develop our existing
product capability and allow customers to develop specific network requirements
that are to the best quality available. Our strategy to specialise and drive
high capacity network requirements means that with the Ciena platform we are
able to provide customers with an exciting proposition,” said Mark Corney,
director of Sales and Development, SSE Telecom.
The high-capacity links, already deployed and
operational, connect SSE Telecoms’ sites in Manchester and Hampshire to the
Global Switch 2 data centre located in London’s Docklands.
Furthermore, the 100 Gb/s deployment is an extension of
SSE Telecoms’ existing Ciena-powered network backbone, based on the 6500
platform.
The newly-deployed 100 Gb/s channels allows SSE Telecoms
to push the boundaries of network reach and performance, enabling customers to
achieve high-capacity optical networking.
The 100 Gb/s network enables SSE Telecoms to offer both
10G and 100G services to its customers, while ensuring low latency, guaranteeing
high availability, reducing power consumption by 46 percent and footprint by 70
percent when compared to a traditional architecture based on 10G technology.
Ciena has to date shipped over 14,000 coherent 40G/100G
line interfaces to more than 120 customers across the globe, with nearly 13
million coherent kilometres deployed worldwide.
Delivering improved performance and better network
running economics, Ciena’s 100G solution deployed in SSE Telecoms’ network
allows the operator to ride this next wave of growth and support it in an
efficient and cost effective way, while creating a seamless evolution path for
its infrastructure,” said Peter Newcombe, vice president of Sales, Northern and
Eastern Europe, Ciena.
Ciena powers Cable&Wireless Worldwide’s 100G European
network
Recently, Ciena Corporation was selected
by Cable&Wireless Worldwide (CWW) to build a European 100G coherent
network using Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical
Platform with WaveLogic coherent optical processors.
