By Telecompaper
Cinia Group and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), now part of Nokia, have successfully completed tests on the C-Lion1 submarine cable system demonstating a record-breaking capacity of 18 Tbps of data per fibre pair.
Showing an ultimate capacity of 144 Tbps demonstrates that C-Lion1 can effectively handle increased connectivity and data centre requirements driven by cloud computing, big data and digitisation. Linking Germany and Finland, C-Lion1 connects data centres in Northern and Central Europe, and offers a low-latency route between Europe and Asia.
Cinia’s C-Lion1 submarine cable system has implemented the latest generation of ASN high-performance wet plant based on extended repeater bandwidth and, new generation of coherent submarine fibre (CSF-2). ASN’s brand new 300G 8QAM technology from its 1620 SOFTNODE enables smart spectrum engineering.
