Seaborn Lights Seabras-1
Subsea Network to Offer Cloud Scale Services On Demand with
Infinera XTS-3300 Meshponders
Infinera, a provider of Intelligent
Transport Networks, and Seaborn Networks
(Seaborn), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine
cable systems, announced the deployment of Infinera’s new
XTS-3300 meshponders on Seaborn’s Seabras-1 submarine
cable to rapidly offer cloud connectivity services like
SeaCloud™. Seabras-1 is the only submarine cable system
with a direct connection between São Paulo, Brazil and New
York City, enabling Seaborn to offer SeaSpeed™, its
proprietary lowest-latency route, between these key global
financial centers.
Seaborn recently announced that Seabras-1 is now ready
for operations. At 10,600 kilometers of subsea cable with
multiple branching units, Seabras-1 is the longest
uncompensated cable deployed connecting North and South
America. Seabras-1 is designed to provide additional route
diversity to Virginia Beach, Miami, St. Croix, Fortaleza,
Rio de Janeiro, southern Brazil and Cape Town. Seaborn
selected the XTS-3300 to deliver the industry’s highest
subsea spectral efficiency and lowest power consumption
available in a commercially deployed, compact, easy-to-use
platform.
Ease of use:
- While many subsea cables can take days to activate
capacity, the Seaborn team was able to configure the
XTS-3300 and light the fiber in an impressive 30
minutes. Infinera’s unique large-scale photonic
integration technology delivers terabit super-channels
and, along with the Advanced Coherent Toolkit (ACT),
enables rapid activation of subsea links.
- With Infinera Instant Bandwidth, the industry’s first
software defined capacity (SDC) solution, Seaborn can
deploy bandwidth in 100 gigabits per second increments
within minutes and a few clicks of a mouse, while the
XTS-3300 platform enables scalability up to 11.8
terabits per second on a fiber.
- The XTS-3300 seamlessly integrates with Seaborn’s
existing Infinera terrestrial backhaul networks in
Brazil and New York, which include Infinera’s XTC and
XTM Series.
Performance and low power:
- The XTS-3300 provides Seaborn with a subsea platform
that integrates the groundbreaking performance of the
Infinera Infinite Capacity Engine 4 (ICE4), which
features unique performance-enhancing technologies such
as Nyquist subcarriers and SD-FEC gain sharing. The
deployment of the XTS-3300 on Seabras-1 significantly
exceeded Seaborn’s capacity-reach performance targets,
helping increase the return on Seaborn’s deployed subsea
cable asset.
- The XTS-3300 is a highly efficient rack-and-stack
solution with the lowest power consumption in a
commercially deployed platform.
“In our quest to meet unprecedented bandwidth demand from
our customers, we rely on solutions that are easy to
operate, highly reliable and provide cloud scale capacity
in a small form factor,” said Larry W. Schwartz, Chairman
& CEO, Seaborn Networks. “The Infinera XTS-3300
meshponder significantly exceeded our expectations,
allowing us to provision services within minutes between
our Infinera metro networks in Brazil and New York. This,
combined with Instant Bandwidth, enables us to rapidly
respond to our customers’ hyperscale requirements and
offer cloud scale service on demand.”
“We are honored to partner with Seaborn to light the
Seabras-1 cable,” said Tom Fallon, Infinera Chief
Executive Officer. “Infinera continues to push the physics
of the optical transport world for the benefit of our
customers and the networks they run. The XTS-3300 is
purpose-built for subsea applications, delivering industry
leading subsea performance while integrating seamlessly
into Seaborn’s existing terrestrial and subsea network.”
The ICE4-based XT-3300 and XTS-3300 are now shipping.
Earlier this year Infinera began shipping the ICE-4 based
Cloud Xpress 2, the second generation of Infinera’s
market-leading metro data center interconnect platforms.
Source: Infinera and Seaborn Networks media announcement