Undersea cable operator Seacom is upgrading its metro core networking and regional backbone networks in South Africa and East Africa.
The company is deploying the Infinera TM-Series for its new metro wavelength division multiplexing networks in both regions to help improve customers' connection to international networks.
"We are delighted to be able to increase the quality of our offering to all customers by investing in scalable metro networks and an upgrade of our regional backbone network to support multiple 100Gbps links," says Seacom CTO Claes Segelberg,
The companies have a longstanding relationship and last year deployed the Infinera DTN-X platform across the sub-sea cable operator's terrestrial network.
"Infinera's packet-optical network solution fits easily into our existing infrastructure and allows Seacom to offer a uniform, flexible and scalable platform while minimising our ongoing operational costs," according to Segelberg.
Infinera worked closely with local partner XON to build these new networks for Seacom. The new metro networks are located at key landing points, and were designed to handle the increased capacity and to support multiple new services.
Seacom owns and operates a high-capacity international network consisting of multiple submarine cable systems connecting Africa to Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Seacom's submarine and terrestrial networks stretch across 17 000km.
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