Ciena will supply 100G coherent optical transport platform to Unitymedia KabelBW, a Liberty Global subsidiary in Germany, to upgrade its backbone network.
Though the company claims that the 100G coherent optical transport platform reduces operating costs and latency and increase its network elasticity, Ciena does not share specific details.
Ciena claims that its platform can be easily upgraded to 400G to support customer demand for new over-the-top (OTT) services such as video streaming.
Unitymedia KabelBW, which reached 12.6 million households with broadband cable services, offers residential and business customers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg TV, telephony and broadband Internet with up to 150 Mbit/s at present.
Michael Langer, director Network Engineering at Unitymedia KabelBW, said: “With Ciena’s platform we are tailoring our network to the needs of our customers. We have a scalable architecture, which we can adapt dynamically if customer requirements change.”
Unitymedia KabelBW is deploying 6500 Packet-Optical Platform that also allows the cable operator to offer Ethernet business, mobile backhaul and transport services for mobile operators.
Unitymedia KabelBW will use Ciena’s management solution for low-touch service activation, service visualization and network monitoring to simplify processes with service implementation and monitor all components and services from its central Network Operations Center.
In addition, Unitymedia KabelBW will also use a number of services from Ciena’sSpecialist Services Portfolio, such as installation, operation and testing.
Unitymedia KabelBW had 7.1 million customers, from which 6.6 million are TV subscriptions, 2.6 million Internet and 2.5 million telephony subscriptions (RGU) till December 2013.
