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Reliance Globalcom partners with Ciena

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Reliance Globalcom has joined hands with Ciena to upgrade its FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA) submarine network. Ciena will provide WaveLogic coherent optical 100G networking solutions and brings massive capacity increases to a route that connects Egypt and Jordan and satisfies customer demand for high-bandwidth services.

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As part of the network upgrade, Reliance Globalcom will deploy a 100G DWDM system with Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic coherent optical line interfaces. Using principles of Ciena's OPn network architecture, the upgrade will allow Reliance Globalcom to support the surge of high-bandwidth applications such as cloud computing, video conferencing, business continuity/disaster recovery, data center connectivity, and storage area networking, in addition to ever increasing Internet traffic.

We are already using Ciena coherent solutions to deliver 40G services on multiple, critical submarine routes, so when we decided to upgrade our FEA route to 100G, we knew Ciena was the right choice to help strengthen our leadership position and differentiate our network capabilities,” said Punit Garg, President and CEO, Reliance Globalcom.

Ciena's submarine network solutions are designed to fit into existing wet plants to significantly increase submarine network capacity without disrupting existing customer traffic or adding cost and complexity to the network. Our solutions are ideally suited for large submarine networks like Reliance Globalcom that play an important role in ensuring continuous global broadband connectivity, and thus cannot afford downtime for network build-out and service turn-up, said Anthony McLachlan, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, Ciena.

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