We are witnessing history in the making with Hibernia Atlantic, and Huawei’s, joint completion of the first 100G transatlantic connection between Nova Scotia and England. This marks the highest capacity connection ever transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean, and it lays the foundation for rest of the deployments encompassing key routes. All of this is part of a massive subsea cable build which will eventually encompass over 5500 km of cable and offer ultra-low transatlantic latencies of under 60 MS RT – another first in the industry.
This large-scale deployment was made possible by in part by Huawei’s OptiX product series, which is a next generation, intelligent, Optical Transport Network (OTN) platform scalable to over 6 Tbps of switching capacity.
Hibernia, Huawei, and its subsidiary Huawei Marine, have an extensive history of providing industry firsts including:
- First 40 Gbps across the Atlantic
- First 40 Gbps across a subsea span
- First to offer 10 Gbps Ethernet LAN-PHY capacity across the Atlantic
- With the deployment of Project Express in 2012, the first transatlantic build in over ten years offering the lowest latency available
To view Hibernia Atlantic’s global network map, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/HA_StatSheet_0511_000.pdf
For more information, please read the entire announcement here: http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/Hibernia_Atlantic_Huawei_100G_Test_PR_-_FINAL.pdf
