Bell Canada offers commercial 400G wavelength services

April 22, 2021
The service provider is leveraging Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent transmission technology to support the service, which is expected to appeal to cloud and data center operators and services providers.

Bell Canada says it now offers commercial 400G wavelength services on its fiber-optic backbone network. The service provider is leveraging Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent transmission technology to support the service, which is expected to appeal to cloud and data center operators and services providers.

The 400G capabilities have been deployed across what Bell is calling “major spans” of its 17,000-km fiber network, with a goal of enabling delivery of 400G services nationally in the coming months. “Bell 400G wavelength service efficiently delivers the speed and capacity necessary to meet the fast-growing demand of bandwidth-intensive operators moving massive amounts of data and content to the cloud,” said Ivan Mihaljevic, senior vice president, wholesale at Bell Canada. “Bell’s unparalleled network infrastructure and customer support, coupled with Ciena’s market-leading optical wavelength technology, offer major operators here in Canada and internationally the opportunity to scale up easily, efficiently, and sustainably with our highly energy efficient 400G capabilities.”

In addition to the greater capacity, use of Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme technology will reduce energy use, equipment footprint, and overall system complexity, Bell and Ciena say. “The global shift to 400G is happening and Bell Canada is leading the way by evolving its network to support the insatiable and often unpredictable network demand driven by the cloud, streaming video and more,” commented Bruce Hembree, vice president and general manager for the Americas at Ciena. “With WaveLogic 5 Extreme, Bell can offer new, high-bandwidth 400G services to carrier and content provider customers between key points of presence across Canada and into the U.S.”

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