Telecom Egypt is deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh and packet-optical platforms to meet surging demand for high-bandwidth services on its national terrestrial network and subsea cable links between the Mediterranean and Asia.
With a more agile and scalable network, Telecom Egypt’s wholesale carrier, operator, ISP and consortium customers will be able to provide diverse data transit routes for international data center interconnect (DCI), disaster recovery, cloud-based services, and other high-capacity services for enterprise and consumer end-customers.
Ciena’s GeoMesh will allow Telecom Egypt to proactively resolve unexpected issues and maintain network reliability.
Ciena’s 6500 and 5430 packet-optical platforms, powered by WaveLogic Extreme coherent optics, allows Telecom Egypt to offer a mix of services over high-capacity wavelengths, supporting any type of traffic, including fully transparent OTNs, VPNs, optical VPNs and Ethernet services.
“With Ciena enabling more granular high-bandwidth services our customers can evolve their networks and transition to a much wider suite of resilient, scalable connectivity options,” said Tamer Gadalla, managing director and CEO of Telecom Egypt.
“Telecom Egypt is also ready to embrace upcoming technologies, like network functions virtualization (NFV).”
Source: http://www.telecomasia.net/content/telecom-egypt-deploy-cienas-geomesh