Ciena®
Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that Farice,
the main provider of international capacity from Iceland to mainland
Europe, has deployed Ciena’s 100G coherent optical transport technology
to upgrade its submarine cable system that connects Iceland and
Scotland. With Ciena’s converged
packet optical and GeoMesh
solutions, Farice will be able to satisfy the growing and unpredictable
bandwidth demands of both its traditional telecommunications carrier
customers, as well as the rapidly growing Icelandic data center industry
being driven by Iceland’s low cost and green energy sources.
Key Facts:
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Farice operates submarine cables between Iceland and both Scotland and
Denmark. The company is the main provider of wholesale capacity in and
out of Iceland and operates a city-to-city network in five European
countries. The network is optimized for delivery of wholesale capacity
to service providers, content providers, cloud service providers, and
data center customers.
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Farice selected Ciena’s 6500
Packet-Optical Platform, powered by 100G WaveLogic
3 Coherent Optical Processors, and GeoMesh optical bypass for
deployment on its 1,200 km submarine cable system, FARICE-1, and
almost 800 km of terrestrial backhaul network where Ciena is the alien
wavelength. This will provide high-bandwidth connectivity between
Reykjavik and Keflavik, Iceland to Dunnet Bay, Scotland. It will also
enable Farice to provide high-speed, reliable and flexible on-demand
service delivery.
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Ciena’s GeoMesh solution incorporates an all-optical network design to
connect submarine and terrestrial segments into a single seamless
link, with high-capacity optical signals carried as foreign
wavelengths over the existing terrestrial backhaul network, reducing
capital and operational expenses – savings that allow Farice to
offer its customers higher capacity at more competitive prices. By
allowing Farice to use the same technologies over land and undersea,
it can efficiently interconnect its points of presence and service
switching centers, with end-to-end service provisioning to make the
global network operate as a single, unified network.
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Additionally, GeoMesh’s simplified all-optical design delivers lower
power consumption, therefore supporting Iceland’s green data center
goals, while also supporting lower latency to improve connectivity
between Iceland’s data centers and the rest of the world.
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Farice will also leverage Ciena’s advanced management solution for
simplified low-touch service activation, which provides rapid service
delivery, comprehensive service visualization and network monitoring.
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This deployment builds on an
earlier agreement between the two companies to enhance Farice’s
submarine cable system DANICE, which connects Iceland with Denmark.
The DANICE upgrade was completed in January 2013.
Executive Comments:
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“To serve the needs of our growing data center and traditional
telecommunications customers, we need to be able to offer maximum
bandwidth, lower latencies and seamless scalability, while maintaining
our higher uptimes. After extensive lab and field testing, it was
clear that Ciena’s coherent optical technology and GeoMesh solution is
the best option to meet our requirements because we can leverage our
existing assets.”
- Örn Orrason, vice president of sales and
business development at Farice
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“Ciena’s 100G-based GeoMesh solution allows Farice to create a
seamless network of terrestrial and submarine links that is more
responsive, resilient and scalable, with less incurred network
latency. In addition, by applying Ciena’s OPn architecture
approach, we are showing how network operators can enjoy the benefits
of a flexible network that has the ability to automatically adapt to
changing conditions, making it possible to safely and easily add 100G
services to its existing cables.”
- Ed McCormack, vice
president and general manager, Submarine Systems at Ciena
Ciena at Submarine Networks World:
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Ciena is exhibiting at Submarine
Networks World 2013 in Singapore this week in booth A7. Karl
Horne, Ciena’s chief technology officer for the Asia Pacific region,
will give a presentation on “Global Network Evolution from Land to
Sea” on Wednesday, September 11 at 1:40 p.m. Horne will also
participate in a panel entitled “100G Technology, What’s Next”
on Thursday, September 12 at 9:20 a.m.
Technology Background:
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Ciena's latest generation of WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors
allow network operators to maximize reach, capacity, flexibility, and
reliability of their submarine networks with an operational focus on
ease-of-deployment, cost efficiency, and protection of network
investments. WaveLogic leverages industry-leading optical networking
technology advancements that together offer network operators several
key benefits, over and above simply moving to 100G line rates.
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Ciena’s OPn network architecture for building next-gen
networks combines optical and packet networking with software
programmability and open interfaces.
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Ciena is the pioneer and market leader of coherent optical technology
with 27,000 coherent 40G/100G line interfaces shipped to over 150
customers across the globe, with more than 25 million coherent
kilometers deployed.
Supporting Resources:
About Farice
Farice operates a city to city network in five European countries. The
network is optimized for delivery wholesale capacity to service
providers, content providers, cloud service providers and data center
customers. Further information about Farice and its services can be
found by visiting www.farice.is.
About Ciena
Ciena is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide
to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally
change the way they perform and compete. Ciena leverages its deep
expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software
automation to deliver solutions in alignment with OPn, its
approach for building open next-generation networks. We enable a
high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and
adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified,
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