Seaborn Lights Seabras-1 Subsea Network to Offer Cloud Scale Services On Demand with Infinera XTS-3300 Meshponders
12 September 2017 - 10:00PM
Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and Seaborn
Networks (Seaborn), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine
cable systems, announced the deployment of Infinera’s new XTS-3300
meshponders on Seaborn’s Seabras-1 submarine cable to rapidly offer
cloud connectivity services like SeaCloud™. Seabras-1 is the only
submarine cable system with a direct connection between São Paulo,
Brazil and New York City, enabling Seaborn to offer SeaSpeed™, its
proprietary lowest-latency route, between these key global
financial centers.
Seaborn recently announced that Seabras-1 is now ready for
operations. At 10,600 kilometers of subsea cable with multiple
branching units, Seabras-1 is the longest uncompensated cable
deployed connecting North and South America. Seabras-1 is designed
to provide additional route diversity to Virginia Beach, Miami, St.
Croix, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, southern Brazil and Cape Town.
Seaborn selected the XTS-3300 to deliver the industry’s highest
subsea spectral efficiency and lowest power consumption available
in a commercially deployed, compact, easy-to-use platform.
Ease of use:
- While many subsea cables can take days to activate capacity,
the Seaborn team was able to configure the XTS-3300 and light the
fiber in an impressive 30 minutes. Infinera’s unique large-scale
photonic integration technology delivers terabit super-channels
and, along with the Advanced Coherent Toolkit (ACT), enables rapid
activation of subsea links.
- With Infinera Instant Bandwidth, the industry’s first software
defined capacity (SDC) solution, Seaborn can deploy bandwidth in
100 gigabits per second increments within minutes and a few clicks
of a mouse, while the XTS-3300 platform enables scalability up to
11.8 terabits per second on a fiber.
- The XTS-3300 seamlessly integrates with Seaborn’s existing
Infinera terrestrial backhaul networks in Brazil and New York,
which include Infinera’s XTC and XTM Series.
Performance and low power:
- The XTS-3300 provides Seaborn with a subsea platform that
integrates the groundbreaking performance of the Infinera Infinite
Capacity Engine 4 (ICE4), which features unique
performance-enhancing technologies such as Nyquist subcarriers and
SD-FEC gain sharing. The deployment of the XTS-3300 on Seabras-1
significantly exceeded Seaborn’s capacity-reach performance
targets, helping increase the return on Seaborn’s deployed subsea
cable asset.
- The XTS-3300 is a highly efficient rack-and-stack solution with
the lowest power consumption in a commercially deployed
platform.
“In our quest to meet unprecedented bandwidth demand from our
customers, we rely on solutions that are easy to operate, highly
reliable and provide cloud scale capacity in a small form factor,”
said Larry W. Schwartz, Chairman & CEO, Seaborn Networks. “The
Infinera XTS-3300 meshponder significantly exceeded our
expectations, allowing us to provision services within minutes
between our Infinera metro networks in Brazil and New York. This,
combined with Instant Bandwidth, enables us to rapidly respond to
our customers’ hyperscale requirements and offer cloud scale
service on demand.”
“We are honored to partner with Seaborn to light the Seabras-1
cable,” said Tom Fallon, Infinera Chief Executive Officer.
“Infinera continues to push the physics of the optical transport
world for the benefit of our customers and the networks they
run. The XTS-3300 is purpose-built for subsea applications,
delivering industry leading subsea performance while integrating
seamlessly into Seaborn’s existing terrestrial and subsea
network.”
The ICE4-based XT-3300 and XTS-3300 are now shipping. Earlier
this year Infinera began shipping the ICE-4 based Cloud Xpress 2,
the second generation of Infinera’s market-leading metro data
center interconnect platforms.
About Seaborn Networks Seaborn Networks is a
leading developer-owner-operator of independent submarine fiber
optic cable systems, including Seabras-1 between New York and São
Paulo and ARBR between São Paulo and Buenos Aires (projected
ready-for-service Q4 2018). www.seabornnetworks.com About
InfineraInfinera (NASDAQ:INFN) provides Intelligent
Transport Networks, enabling carriers, cloud operators, governments
and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate service
innovation and automate optical network operations. Infinera’s
end-to-end packet-optical portfolio is designed for long-haul,
subsea, data center interconnect and metro applications. Infinera’s
unique large scale photonic integrated circuits enable innovative
optical networking solutions for the most demanding networks. To
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This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to the technical, operational and
economic benefits relating to the deployment of the XTS-3300 in
subsea networks. These statements are not guarantees of results and
should not be considered as an indication of future activity or
future performance. Actual results may vary materially from these
expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties.
Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks
and uncertainties that affect Infinera’s business, is contained in
the risk factors section and other sections of Infinera’s Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 1, 2017 as filed
with the SEC on August 8, 2017, as well subsequent reports filed
with or furnished to the SEC. These reports are available on
Infinera’s website at www.infinera.com and the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov. Infinera assumes no obligation to, and does not
currently intend to, update any such forward-looking
statements.
Contacts:
Infinera Media:
Anna Vue
Tel. +1 (916) 595-8157
avue@infinera.com
Seaborn Media:
Kate Wilson
T: +1 (978) 471-3169
kate.wilson@seabornnetworks.com
Infinera Investors:
Jeff Hustis
Tel: + 1 (408) 213-7150
jhustis@infinera.com
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