Israeli provider Bezeq International has deployed the country’s first 100G optical network using ECI’s Apollo packet-optical transport system.
Bezeq International caters to numerous large enterprise and business customers, who demand increasing speed and capacity, while also providing for disaster recovery contingencies. The new network is now serving these customers, alleviating capacity bottlenecks during high-usage times.
The 100G optical links are used to aggregate ten channels of 10G over a single wavelength, including Ethernet, FC and SDH channels, providing a cost-effective tenfold increase in network capacity.
This deployment follows the 100G trial carried out in March 2013 over the operator’s live operational submarine fibre. The trial, conducted in conjunction with the Tera Santa Consortium, as part of its research on long-distance adaptive coherent channel behaviour, demonstrated the advanced capabilities of ECI 100G transmission system and technologies in compensating for non-linear channel impairments and chromatic dispersion utilising advanced SD-FEC algorithms.
The Apollo 100G service cards, already deployed by many customers worldwide, bring significant capacity increase to the optical cable, relieving traffic congestion and enabling new applications.
“Deploying 100G was a natural evolution to Bezeq International, as we continue to address our customers’ demands for better and more cost-effective services”, said Sagi Kozuch, CTO of Bezeq International .
“Bezeq’s customers will be the main beneficiary of the many advantages this network will bring, such as increased capacity, speed, reliability and disaster-recovery capabilities. The Apollo brings a cost-effective solution for operators around the world who are looking for better ways to serve their enterprise and residential customers”, said Mickey Wilf, Head of APAC & Middle East Regional Business Units, ECI Telecom.
