Infinera Announces Deployment of 6,000km of Transatlantic Optical Route

Infinera has reported that it has completed the deployment of a transatlantic route for a key global telecommunication firm. The company laid the route for more than 6,000 km.

The fiber optic route offers the telecom service provider an optical capacity of 1.76 Terabits/s on one pair of fiber.

The Infinera Submarine Solution utilizes the double-density technology of Infinera that allows the implementation of wavelengths on a 25 GHz channel grid. The technology enables network operators to double the capacity when compared to conventional DWDM optical systems. In addition, the solution helps the service provider to offer new services and increase efficiency and space of the submarine system. An advanced solution is developed to make dispersion management easier.

The submarine solution is based on the Infinera DTN, and it features photonic integrated circuits-based architecture of digital optical networks. With this architecture, the new solution from Infinera makes the deployment, management and provisioning of the network easier and simpler. Thus, the solution helps to minimize the time taken to include new services to few days from months.

Mike Guess, Vice-President of Infinera Network Architecture, said that including this latest project, the company’s submarine solution has been deployed on more than 50,000 km of submarine cable systems.