Infinera and Seaborn Set Subsea Industry Benchmark for Capacity-Reach with XTS-3300 on Seabras-1
September 20 2017 - 11:00PM
Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and Seaborn
Networks (Seaborn), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine
cable systems, announced the successful completion of a subsea
field trial demonstrating the industry’s highest spectral
efficiency on an ultra-long-haul subsea cable. The 8QAM trial
demonstrated 4.5 bits per second per hertz on the Seabras-1 cable,
owned and operated by Seaborn, with a distance of more than 10,500
kilometers (km), enabling up to 50 percent more capacity than
systems without advanced coherent technologies such as Nyquist
sub-carriers and SD-FEC gainsharing. This trial raises the bar for
optical performance by delivering the industry’s highest spectral
efficiency in a commercially shipping product.
Infinera and Seaborn validated the performance of the Infinera
XTS-3300 meshponder featuring the Advanced Coherent Toolkit (ACT)
on the Seabras-1 submarine cable, helping Seaborn to maximize the
return on its cable assets. Seabras-1 is one of the world’s longest
uncompensated subsea cables, directly connecting North and South
America. Seaborn is the exclusive operator of a Seabras-1 route
that has deployed XTS-3300.
The XTS-3300 is based on Infinera’s Infinite Capacity Engine 4
(ICE4) and is optimized for long-haul subsea applications. The
groundbreaking performance of ICE4 technology incorporates unique
technologies to boost capacity-reach performance including
digitally synthesized Nyquist subcarriers, enhanced pre- and
post-dispersion compensation, improved non-linear tolerance and
SD-FEC gain sharing which is only possible with dual-channel DSPs
like Infinera’s. These capabilities collectively support up to 18.2
terabits per second per fiber for distances over 10,000 km, powered
by ICE4’s leadership in spectral efficiency.
“This is an impressive achievement that far surpasses what we
expected. Infinera has distinguished itself as an industry leader
in delivering outstanding subsea optical performance,” said Larry
W. Schwartz, Chairman and CEO, Seaborn Networks. “The Infinera
XTS-3300 meshponders deliver industry-leading performance over
Seabras-1 and validate Infinera's technology leadership in subsea
transmission. The capacity upgrade maximizes our return on
investment and further underscores the uniqueness of Seaborn’s
capacity on Seabras-1.”
“We are delighted with the performance of the XTS-3300 and the
Infinite Capacity Engine 4 for subsea applications. The XTS-3300
delivers industry leading capacity-reach performance for our subsea
customers where spectral efficiency is paramount and bandwidth
demand is growing at more than 45 percent per year,” said Dave
Welch, President and Co-Founder, Infinera. “Infinera delivers
unparalleled optical performance, helping to enable the success of
our customers as they transform their subsea networks to cloud
scale.”
About Seaborn Networks Seaborn Networks is a
leading developer-owner-operator of independent submarine fiber
optic cable systems, including Seabras-1 between New York and São
Paulo, and ARBR between São Paulo and Buenos Aires (projected
ready-for-service Q4 2018). www.seabornnetworks.com
About InfineraInfinera (NASDAQ:INFN) provides
Intelligent Transport Networks, enabling carriers, cloud operators,
governments and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate
service innovation and automate optical network operations.
Infinera’s end-to-end packet-optical portfolio is designed for
long-haul, subsea, data center interconnect and metro applications.
Infinera’s unique large scale photonic integrated circuits enable
innovative optical networking solutions for the most demanding
networks. To learn more about Infinera visit www.infinera.com,
follow us on Twitter @Infinera and read our latest blog posts at
www.infinera.com/blog.
Infinera and the Infinera logo are registered trademarks of
Infinera Corporation.
This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to the technical capabilities and
advantages of deploying Infinera solutions in subsea networks.
These statements are not guarantees of results and should not be
considered as an indication of future activity or future
performance. Actual results may vary materially from these
expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties.
Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks
and uncertainties that affect Infinera’s business, is contained in
the risk factors section and other sections of Infinera’s Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 1, 2017 as filed
with the SEC on August 8, 2017, as well subsequent reports filed
with or furnished to the SEC. These reports are available on
Infinera’s website at www.infinera.com and the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov. Infinera assumes no obligation to, and does not
currently intend to, update any such forward-looking
statements.
Contacts:
Infinera Media:
Anna Vue
Tel. +1 (916) 595-8157
avue@infinera.com
Seaborn Media:
Kate Wilson
T: +1 (978) 471-3169
Kate.wilson@seabornnetworks.com
Infinera Investors:
Jeff Hustis
Tel: + 1 (408) 213-7150
jhustis@infinera.com
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