Telxius, a spinout of Telefónica that operates submarine networks that link the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere, says it now offers 400G Ethernet services on its infrastructure. The company cites its optical network hardware providers, Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) and Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), as key to this achievement.
“Telxius’s network is the first to have a 400-Gbps Ethernet interface available in both the transatlantic and the LATAM-USA routes, including Marea, Dunant, Brusa, Junior, Tannat, and Mistral subsea cables,” commented Guillermo Cañete, vice president, network planning at Telxius. “The collaboration with top-tier providers such as Infinera and Ciena opens up possibilities for Telxius to offer enhanced Ethernet services to customers that seamlessly support the rapid bandwidth demands of today’s data-intensive cloud and network applications.”
The Marea submarine cable connects the Virginia Beach Telxius CLS Campus in the U.S. to Sopelana, Spain, and on to the Derio Communications Hub, which Telxius says connects to major hubs in Europe. Telxius uses Dunant for network diversity across the Atlantic; it connects to France from the Virginia Beach CLS.
LATAM-U.S. connectivity comes from the 11,000-km Brusa submarine cable system, which also lands in Virginia Beach but then runs to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Fortaleza (Brazil), and San Juan (Puerto Rico). From there, connectivity to the Tannat and Junior undersea cables provide further connectivity across Latin America, including Argentina. Mistral runs along the Pacific coast of Latin America.
“With cloud networking and data center connections exploding and fueling a huge demand for increased bandwidth and subsea capacity, Infinera delivers the flexibility, capacity, and reach to help ensure that subsea networks continue to stay ahead of bandwidth needs,” stated Ron Johnson, general manager, Optical Systems and Network Solutions Group at Infinera. “Infinera’s new 800G ICE6 solution is the ideal fit for network operators like Telxius looking to flexibly and cost-effectively scale their networks to meet the rapid growth of bandwidth and deliver efficient support for 400G Ethernet services.”
Telxius also has fully Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine network line, which leverages the company’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics (see, for example, "Telxius achieves 550 Gbps/wavelength during BRUSA submarine network trial"). “We are pleased to continue evolving our partnership with Telxius to provide the best possible connectivity experience worldwide,” said Ian Clarke, vice president of global submarine solutions at Ciena. “Ciena’s approach is to create programmable and scalable networks to allow highly innovative providers like Telxius to best address global connectivity needs of content providers, global enterprises, and third-party operators today and well into the future.”
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