SEACOM said Monday it’s upgrading its submarine cable network along...
SEACOM said Monday it’s upgrading its submarine cable network along Africa’s southern and eastern coasts using Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and OneControl Unified Management System. Ciena said its technology will help SEACOM meet growing capacity demands in countries like Egypt,…
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India, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania. “Connectivity services in Africa are booming due to the growing needs of business IT users, the rise of ‘cloud’ based services, and growing requirements for the processing and storing of personal data,” said SEACOM Chief Technology Officer Claes Segelberg in a news release. “Ciena’s technology will enable us to cost-effectively scale our capacity to address this growing demand for connectivity throughout the continent.” The technology can help SEACOM deliver capacity in “very short timeframes” and allow for future increases in demand, Ciena said. SEACOM will initially use Ciena’s 40G coherent transport technology, and plans to use 100G for future upgrades (http://bit.ly/10EhrJd).