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Seacom upgrades cable network

11th March 2013

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Undersea fibre-optic cable network operator Seacom has started upgrading the capacity on sections of its 17 000 km undersea network across several key countries on the southern and eastern African coastlines.

The group, in an effort to drive the development of Internet access in Africa and to open the “broadband tap” for African consumers, would use Ciena Corporation’s unified management system technology for the upgrade.

The 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and OneControl unified management system solution would enable Seacom to deliver its capacity in short timeframes and provide for future demand.

Seacom would initially deploy Ciena’s 40 G coherent transport technology, with ultralong-distance 100 G wavelengths planned for future upgrades.

“Connectivity services in Africa are booming due to the growing needs of business information technology users, the rise of cloud-based services, and growing requirements for the processing and storing of personal data,” Seacom CTO Claes Segelberg commented.

Ciena’s technology would enable Seacom to meet the growing capacity demands of its customers and enable affordable Internet access to East Africa, with a network offering a better cost point and a smoother evolution path for the future, he concluded.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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