News and BusinessSeaborn Networks, the developer-owner-operator of transoceanic subsea fibre optic cable systems, has announced new high capacity connectivity from its Seabras-1 IP Network directly into key global IX (internet exchange) locations. Seabras-1 goes between São Paulo, Brazil and New York, and is the only direct PoP to PoP system between those two metro areas. It offers […]
News and BusinessWholesale and corporate ICT service provider Angola Cables is trialling Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa.. The new route is designed to provide direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing and greatly simplify the turn-up of services to better serve rapidly growing data consumption markets in Africa. […]
Applications and ResearchAcacia Communications has announced the first 400G single carrier DWDM transmission on the 6,600 km Marea submarine cable between Virginia Beach, USA, and Bilbao, Spain. The field demonstration was conducted by Acacia in collaboration with Microsoft and Facebook, and helped to demonstrate that improvements in capacity and spectral efficiency can enable increased utilisation of deployed […]
Applications and ResearchInfinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, has completed of a subsea field trial with a major subsea network provider on a new trans-Atlantic route. The trial was conducted with the XTS-3300 meshponder and demonstrated the potential of 19 terabits per second (19T) per fibre pair, delivering the highest spectral efficiency on a major trans-Atlantic […]
Technologies and ProductsInfinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced new platforms within its DTN-X Family to power cloud scale subsea networks. The company introduced the XTS-3300 and XTS-3600 “meshponders” for subsea networks, and upgraded its DTN-X XTC Series to 12 terabits per second (Tb/s) of non-blocking Optical Transport Network switching with a new 1.2 Tb/s subsea […]