Ciena announced that it has been selected by Russian
carrier GlobalNet for the upgrade of its metro optical network, based on
Ciena’s 4200 Advanced Services Platform.
The new architecture will include Ciena’s 40G technology
and WaveLogic coherent optical processors, supporting the cost-effective,
flexible and scalable delivery of highly-reliable services to GlobalNet’s
customer base.
GlobalNet offers connectivity services to enterprises in
high-bandwidth sectors, including content delivery, media and storage. The
operator serves West Russia with a privately-owned optical network of more than
7,000 km.
Its long-haul coherent 40G network is based on Ciena’s
6500 Packet-Optical Platform, a highly scalable architecture that includes
Ciena’s WaveLogic coherent optical processors. These benefits are now being
extended to the metro network using Ciena’s 4200 platform, providing additional
capacity and flexibility to GlobalNet’s enterprise connectivity offerings.
With the advent of media-rich content and cloud-based
services, there is a growing demand for available bandwidth from companies in
the St. Petersburg area, which is only going to increase in years to come. This
represents a great opportunity for GlobalNet and with the flexible and scalable
network infrastructure enabled by Ciena, we can continue supporting our
customers as their communications services needs evolve, while maintaining
economical network operations,” said Valery Ostapenko, general director at
GlobalNet.
Ciena’s coherent technology enables GlobalNet to protect
past investments and transmit four times as much information as across existing
10G networks.
By upgrading its metro network to support a total
capacity of 1 terabit per second (1Tb/s), GlobalNet can meet the growing
bandwidth needs of its customers and support the requirements of
mission-critical applications.
Russian enterprises rely on GlobalNet to offer them
reliable connectivity as and when they need it. Ciena’s optical network
architecture enables GlobalNet to scale and meet their growing capacity needs
in a simple and cost-efficient manner, empowering these ambitious companies to
better compete in today’s dynamic market environment,” said Sergei Fishkin,
regional managing director, Russia, CIS and the Baltic states at Ciena.
Ciena’s 4200 Advanced Services Platform is a multiservice
aggregation and transport platform that can support a wide range of services
(including Ethernet, SONET/SDH, storage and video), meeting all business
application transport requirements over a single network with carrier-grade
reliability.
The inclusion of WaveLogic processors enables the
platform to provide cost-effective ways to mitigate optical impairments, take
advantage of existing fibre plants and scale network capacity quickly and
easily.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
