VA Telecom, a French B2B market provider focused on facilitating connectivity, has implemented Ribbon’s Apollo solution to provide connectivity between its data centers.
Ribbon’s Apollo 9600 series allows service providers like VA Telecom to select from a set of transponder, muxponder, ROADM and amplifier line cards to tailor solutions to meet its unique optical networking needs.
All line cards can be used across three platform sizes without any engineering restriction to create the right-sized solutions in every location. These platforms can be customized to precisely meet service transport needs and availability targets and can evolve economically to accommodate traffic growth and new technologies.
Having a flexible platform set bodes well for providers like VA Telecom. Today, the service has 14 connected data centers and has interconnection relationships with several Tier 1 French carriers including axione, Bouygues, Covage, Orange and SFR.
The provider’s timing comes as the data center interconnection (DCI) market is poised for more significant growth.
Driven by the growing demand for higher bandwidth coupled with new technologies such as AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), Grand View Research forecasts that the global data DCI market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6% from 2022 to 2030. The emphasis by the data center providers on latency, throughput, streamlined operations, intelligence, security, and maintenance is expected to drive the industry's growth.
Jérôme Richard, VA Telecom CTO, said the Ribbon platform enables it to “provide rapid and efficient data transfers to our customers over a new route enabling highly reliable services by leveraging FC64, the fastest Fibre Channel service, and gaining the flexibility to easily evolve our infrastructure as needs change.”
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