Cinia upgrades optical transport network with Ribbon
Ribbon Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: RBBN) says it will supply elements of the Apollo OTN transport and switching platform portfolio it gained via its acquisition of ECI Telecom (see “Ribbon Communications to acquire ECI Telecom”) to Nordic service provider Cinia. Cinia, the operator of the C-Lion1 submarine cable (see “Cinia completes C-Lion1 submarine network, selects optical transport supplier”), will use the optical transport equipment to improve the capacity, latency performance, and resiliency of its fiber backbone transport network in Finland and Northern Europe.
Cinia will deploy Ribbon's Apollo 9600 series optical transport systems and Apollo 9900 series OTN switching platforms for wavelength grooming and route protection. The service provider will thus create a flexible-grid backbone network with colorless, directionless ROADM capabilities that also can support alien wavelengths. This last feature enables Cinia to offer its carrier customers transit services with their own wavelengths. The platforms will leverage Ribbon’s TM800E programmable transmission blades for 400GbE client connections as well.
"The importance of connectivity platforms including transport networks has clearly increased in today's digital society, and this applies directly to Cinia's customers as well," said Taneli Vuorinen, executive vice president from Cinia. "Our long-term co-operation with Ribbon's IP Optical team (former ECI) has been successful and by deploying Ribbon's optical transport networking (OTN) solutions into Cinia's backbone network, we've increased our flexibility and offering to respond to market demand."
"Cinia offers a very specific set of capabilities to its customers, and seamless transport continuity is paramount," said Steve McCaffery, Ribbon's Executive Vice President Sales of EMEA and APAC. "Our modular optical networking solution enabled them to upgrade their network capabilities with no interruption while further enhancing the quality of their commercial offering."
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