Tata Comm upgrades its Atlantic subsea cable system to 40Gb/s

Tata Communications has announced the launch of 40 gigabits per second enabled services on its TGN-Atlantic subsea cable system from New York to London, in partnership with Ciena, a telecom networking equipments provider.

The upgrade will deliver bandwidth and flexibility to carriers and enterprises around the world with four times the capacity of traditional 10G wavelengths, said the company.

The TGN-Atlantic optical network is based on Ciena’s 6500 Packet optical platform with 40G /100G coherent technology and is fully compliant with ITU(International Telecommunication Union) standards.

''The deployment of 40G technology will ensure our network is future proof and will bring maximum long-haul transmission bandwidth, lower latencies, higher uptimes and seamless scalability to carriers and enterprises, while ensuring a low cost of ownership for our customers,” said John Hayduk, president, product management and service devlopment,Tata Communications on the upgrade.

The first phase of the deployment will enable the New York -London route with 40G capability and in the second phase it will be extended to Ashburn, Virginia and the rest of Europe.

Tata Comm’s global network consists of over 200,000 kilometres of terrestrial network fibre and over 500,000 kilometres of subsea cable. Its network carries 17% of the world’s internet traffic and 2,400 petabits of IP traffic per month, said the company.