INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
Ciena upgrades EIG submarine
cable system to connect
businesses in Europe, ME and India
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T
he Europe India Gateway (EIG)
submarine cable system has
been upgraded to accelerate and
strengthen connectivity between businesses
in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and India.
Using Ciena’s submarine network solution,
the upgrade allows EIG to utilise flexible,
express wavelengths, also known as optical
bypass, to reduce operational costs as well
as space and power requirements while
improving reliability.
The EIG cable system is a 15,000 km
international fibre optic submarine cable
system that links the United Kingdom with
Gibraltar, Portugal, Monaco, France, Libya,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, United
Arab Emirates and India. As one of the
primary data connections between India
and Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the
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EIG transports significant quantities of data
between consumers and businesses.
The cable has been upgraded with Ciena’s
GeoMesh solution, powered by WaveLogic
Ai coherent optics, which offers EIG new
levels of flexibility, the lowest cost per
transported bit and the ability to meet
unpredictable traffic demands. The upgrade
adds 24.3 Tb/s of information carrying
capacity to the EIG cable, with a spectral
efficiency increase of 52%, in comparison
to previous technology.
With WaveLogic Ai, EIG can transport up
to 400Gb/s per wavelength, driving more
capacity per channel at longer distances.
“Ciena continues to support upgrades to
the EIG cable, one of the primary data
connections between India and Europe,
and the Middle East and Africa. The EIG
transports significant quantities of data
between consumers and businesses and we
continue to evolve its capacity to support
both present and future requirements,” said
David Moore, Management Committee
Chair, Europe India Gateway.
Ian Clarke, Vice President of Global
Submarine Sales, Ciena, added: “The
nature of global business today demands
instant and reliable access to partners,
customers and employees anywhere and
at any time. Across Europe, India and the
Middle East, this connectivity is reliant on
technology like the WaveLogic-powered
GeoMesh submarine network solution that
is scalable, flexible and able to adapt to
the intense requirements of a bandwidth-
hungry environment.” n
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