Equinix and AquaComms announced back in August that they were partnering on a Trans-Atlantic, subsea fiber network that would connect Western Ireland to New York. Today, AquaComms announced that it has chosen Ciena to help facilitate 100G connectivity in that network.
The route will enable trans-Atlantic connectivity for global carriers and enterprises. By providing private dedicated connections, AEConnect will lower network costs and enable higher, more consistent network performance for end users. Using Ciena’s GeoMesh, AquaComms will provide connectivity to support international cloud connectivity.
“By deploying this next-generation trans-Atlantic subsea cable system, we are able to provide premium connectivity for both our web-scale and service provider customers, who continue to see the demand for bandwidth growing at exponential rates,” AquaComms COO Greg Varisco said in a statement. “Ciena’s GeoMesh solution helps ensure that we have the scalable, programmable and high-capacity connectivity in place to support the varied needs of our customers.”
With Ciena’s programmable platforms, AEConnect will be able to utilize technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), to support bandwidth-intensive applications.
“For sub-sea providers like AquaComms, having a reliable and high-capacity infrastructure in place is critical to the support growing demands of global data centers, cloud-based networks, financial services and content providers,” Ed McCormack, Ciena Vice President and General Manager of Submarine Systems, said in a statement. “Ciena’s agile and programmable GeoMesh solutions incorporate the latest coherent optical transmission technologies and network architectures to create seamless global connectivity to address the challenges of today’s web-scale world.”
