Sparkle Illuminates Its U.S.-Chile Submarine Cable with Ciena's WaveLogic 5

摘要

Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, announce the upgrade of Sparkle's 10,476km next-generation fibers on the Curie submarine cable. Ciena's WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e), the industry's first 800G programmable solution, improves capacity and speed on the Chile to U.S. route. By adopting WL5e, Sparkle's fiber on Curie will be able to reach a total transmission capacity of up to 450Gbps per channel -which is twice faster than previously available technology. This will result in an ultimate capacity of up to 19Tbps and a 30 percent increase in the network's ability, giving end-users the possibility to enjoy more HD video and cloud computing applications.