Sparkle boosts Curie submarine cable capacity via Ciena

July 14, 2020
The use of line cards sporting Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent transmission chipset will raise transmission capacity to up to 450 Gbps per channel.

Italy’s Sparkle, TIM Group’s international service provider, has upgraded the transmission capabilities of the fiber it controls in the Curie submarine cable system using technology from Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), the two companies revealed. The use of line cards sporting Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent transmission chipset will raise transmission capacity to up to 450 Gbps per channel.

The Curie system runs 10,476 km between the Valparaiso Region of Chile and El Segundo, CA (see “Google’s Curie submarine cable lands in Chile”). Google led deployment of the submarine cable, which completed in April 2019. The addition of the WL5e transmission capabilities will raise Sparkle’s ultimate capacity on the cable to 19 Tbps, the companies said. In addition, Sparkle also will enjoy direct connectivity between data centers in the U.S. and Chile using the GeoMesh Extreme Submarine Network Solution that leverages the WL5e. Sparkle will leverage Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller for network monitoring and management as well.

“Curie is a major addition for Sparkle, as it expands our American backbone with direct Chile to U.S. connectivity. WaveLogic 5 pushes the envelope and helps us execute on our network evolution plans to continue supporting next-generation applications that require endless bandwidth,” commented Enrico Bagnasco, Sparkle’s CTO.

“Sparkle’s upgraded network opens a new connectivity route to Chile and enables its customers to have faster, more reliable bandwidth as they stream content and use the cloud,” added Fabio Medina, Ciena’s general manager and vice president of sales in Latin America.

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Stephen Hardy is editorial director and associate publisher of Lightwave and Broadband Technology Report, part of the Lighting & Technology Group at Endeavor Business Media. Stephen is responsible for establishing and executing editorial strategy across the both brands’ websites, email newsletters, events, and other information products. He has covered the fiber-optics space for more than 20 years, and communications and technology for more than 35 years. During his tenure, Lightwave has received awards from Folio: and the American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) for editorial excellence. Prior to joining Lightwave in 1997, Stephen worked for Telecommunications magazine and the Journal of Electronic Defense.

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