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JANET delivers Europe's 1st 40Gbits/s service |
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
JANET(
UK) has successfully delivered its first 40Gbits/s service in a production environment across JANET, the
UK's national research and education network, using the new 40Gbits/s capabilities of Ciena's CoreStream Agility Optical Transport System. This is the first time that a national research and education network (NREN) in
Europe has deployed a true 40Gbits/s signal across a single optical wavelength to carry live production traffic between sites. The Ciena-enabled 40Gbits/s service was delivered across a dedicated optical fibre link connecting the
Canary
Wharf and Kings Cross points of presence (PoP) in
London, one of the busiest parts of the JANET network. Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), JANET provides a highly robust and scalable UK-wide optical network to support the diverse requirements of a user base of 18 million, including research institutes, universities, further education and primary and secondary schools. Ciena's CoreStream Agility platform forms the foundation of the JANET backbone transmission infrastructure to deliver high-speed connectivity for end-users. Additionally, Ciena's FlexSelect(tm) CN 4200 Advanced Services Platform connects 19
UK regional networks to the JANET backbone. Both Ciena solutions offer a seamless upgrade to 40Gbits/s of capacity per wavelength as needed. With the first 40Gbits/s connectivity now in service between two PoPs, JANET plans to migrate its entire CoreStream Agility-based transport infrastructure to 40Gbits/s interfaces during the course of 2008, dependent on network traffic growth. As Ciena's solution enables new 40Gbits/s wavelengths to be intermixed with existing 10Gbits/s wavelengths on the same fiber system, JANET will be able to migrate seamlessly to 40Gbits/s, without interruption to the existing 10Gbits/s network or the need to build a separate, standalone network.
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