…Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE4) announced that it will deploy equipment from Ciena for its submarine network. SEA-ME-WE4 is the name given to a massive 20,000 km submarine cable route that is co-owned by 16 international telecommunications companies, including Verizon, France Telecom…

…present in the submarine market.   Ciena?s Adaptive Optical Engine enables submarine networks to be seamlessly upgraded to 40G with only the addition of new terminal equipment, significantly extending the life of existing cable plants, so operators don’t need to lay more cables – an expensive…

…about laying down new fiber-optic submarine cable networks: they are really expensive.  In fact, laying new sub-sea fiber-optic cable can cost $25,000, even $50,000, per kilometer.   So if you’re the owner of the world’s largest private undersea cable network like Reliance Globalcom…

…of submarine cable networks, Big Pipes get all the glory.  With international bandwidth demand skyrocketing due to the flood of consumer video and the growing worldwide base of broadband users, creating more available bandwidth is rightfully ‘job 1’ for today’s submarine network…

I came across this interesting global map that details the world?s network of undersea cables -- showing in-service, planned and even damaged cable routes.  Click on the below image for a larger version.  You can also see the PDF version here.  This chart is actually about a year old…

South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) is an approximately 18,800-kilometer optical fiber submarine cable system carrying telecommunications between 16 service providers in 14 countries. SEA-ME-WE 4 provides the primary Internet backbone between South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Europe.

…coherent 40G optical networking solution on a cable route that connects the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Egypt. Spanning more than 6,400 kilometers, the upgraded cable route will add 2.4 Terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity on a crucial submarine route from Europe to the Middle East that helps…

…* The Cable Show, May 11-13, Los Angeles. Ciena will have a 20x30 booth at this all-in-one Cable industry event that includes exhibitors from network equipment providers all the way to Big Media and content providers. * SubOptic 2010, May 11-14, Yokohama. This event focused on the submarine networking…

Ciena is playing a key role in the upgrade of the SEA-ME-WE-4 cable system that supports the delivery of high-speed Internet and broadband services along a 22,000 km route connecting Europe to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Learn how Ciena's optical switching and 100G technologies enable SEA-ME-WE-4 co-owners to deliver faster services and provide better reliability to end-users.

…flexibility in that initial application, Cable & Wireless Panama quickly realized the benefits could be leveraged across a broader set of backbone networking requirements throughout Panama. “From video surveillance to IP services and submarine cable interconnection, our service portfolio goes…