Summit Broadband, a Florida-based broadband provider, has entered the growing 400G optical wavelength race with its new service targeting enterprise customers in Central and Southwest Florida.
Having operated in Florida for over three decades, Summit Broadband owns and operates over 4,300 fiber-route miles of infrastructure and serves industries and communities throughout the state with voice, video, data, internet, Ethernet services, and dark fiber transport.
Summit Broadband has rolled out 400 Gbps wavelengths in response to the growth of high-bandwidth applications like cloud computing, IoT devices, and video streaming. Today, enterprises require more capacity. Like other fiber-based wholesale providers, Summit Broadband is seeing more demand for optical solutions that support data center interconnect.
“The demand for bandwidth shows no signs of slowing down, and our new 400 Gbps service ensures that our business customers have the high performance and scalability essential for applications like data center interconnect, which require fast speeds and low latency,” said Bill Lean, VP of Wholesale, indirect channel, and solution architecture at Summit Broadband.
Ciena's WL5e provides the underlying technology for the 400 Gbps service. Summit Broadband and Ciena have a long-standing relationship, with Ciena powering Summit’s optical network. The network is managed via Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite, which provides end-to-end visibility and assurance from a single point of control.
However, providing a platform to accommodate greater bandwidth scale is only one part of Summit Broadband's equation. The Ciena platform also addresses the service provider’s environmental sustainability efforts.
“Ciena’s proven WL5e technology allows Summit to deliver more data per unit of energy over our existing infrastructure, maximizing network utilization and providing capex and opex savings,” Lean said. “This means that we’re able to provide services in a more environmentally friendly way, reducing carbon footprint and contributing to our sustainability efforts.”
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