With demand for increased data services between Europe and Asia expected
to grow at an average of 38 percent per year in the next six years1,
the Europe
India Gateway (EIG) consortium is multiplying the capacity on its
international submarine cable system. Ciena®
(NYSE: CIEN), is providing EIG an end-to-end multi-Terabit upgrade that
will enable a flexible supply of network capacity. Ciena’s intelligent
control plane and switching technologies will also ensure that the EIG
network is equipped with the programmability to scale on-demand in the
future. As the first direct, high-bandwidth optical fiber submarine
cable system from the United Kingdom to India, the EIG upgrade, with OTN
and Mesh capabilities, ensures service reliability and enables
transparent, data friendly services to support the growing demand for
Internet connectivity and bandwidth-intensive applications such as
e-commerce, data, video and voice services.
Key Facts:
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The Europe India Gateway (EIG) cable system, spanning approximately
15,000 kilometers, connects 12 countries across three continents,
enhancing capacity and providing much needed diversity for broadband
traffic connecting Western Europe with the Mediterranean, Middle East,
Africa and India. Given the strategic importance of this network
corridor this network upgrade allows EIG’s consortium members to
satisfy their immediate needs for redundancy and resiliency in their
network architectures. The first phase of the EIG cable upgrade - from
the United Kingdom to Djibouti - is complete, with phase two -
enhancing the cable capability to India - underway.
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Ciena’s GeoMesh
submarine solution, using the OneControl
Unified Management System, combined with the 6500
Packet-Optical Platform and optical bypass, gives EIG an
end-to-end view of both its terrestrial and submarine networks. The
100G wavelengths installed for EIG will be able to seamlessly offer
10G and 100G services.
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EIG’s flexible network architecture, an example of Ciena’s OPn
network architecture that enables programmable and scalable network
designs, also benefits from Ciena’s 5400
Packet-Optical Reconfigurable Switching System, which switches and
protects both SDH and OTN traffic to key points in EIG’s network.
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Ciena’s OneConnect
Intelligent Control Plane with mesh restoration automates
provisioning across EIG’s entire terrestrial and subsea network,
ensuring optimized traffic routing, and enhanced network resiliency
and availability – allowing the submarine cable to meet the unique
needs of sixteen consortium members with added speed and simplicity.
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This is a turn-key end-to-end upgrade supported by Ciena’s Specialist
Services team, which provides project management, integration, as
well as test and turn-up assistance.
Executive Comments:
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“This single coherent solution provided by Ciena enables us to meet
customer demand for more capacity with scalability, reach and
resiliency.”
- John Russell,
Management Committee Chairman, Europe India Gateway
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“This win further expands our footprint in the submarine market and
cements our role as a strategic supplier to top international cable
consortia. High-bandwidth, on-demand applications and services
continue to put pressure on today’s submarine networks, requiring
providers like EIG to leverage platforms that not only increase
capacity but also provide more programmability and enhanced network
management capabilities.”
- Ed
McCormack, Vice President and General Manager of Submarine Systems,
Ciena
Supporting Resources:
Notes
1 TeleGeography (Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, Q1 2014)
About EIG
The EIG cable system is a 15,000 kilometer international fibre optic
submarine cable system that links the United Kingdom, with Portugal,
Gibraltar, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman,
United Arab Emirates, and India. EIG is the first high bandwidth (3.84
terabits per second) cable system using dense wavelength division
multiplexing technology connecting the United Kingdom with India via the
Mediterranean Sea.
The EIG Consortium members are: AT&T, Bharti Airtel, BT, Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Limited (BSNL), Vodafone, Djibouti Telecom, du, Gibtelecom, Libyan
Information and Technology Company, MTN Group, Omantel, PT Comunicacoes,
Saudi Telecom Company, Telecom Egypt, Telkom SA SOC Ltd and Verizon. The
original suppliers for the EIG cable system were Alcatel-Lucent and Tyco
Electronics Subsea Communications (TE SubCom).
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) 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
its OPn architecture for next-generation networks. We enable
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adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
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