ECI has partnered with Colombia’s largest fibre optics operator Media Commerce to deliver packet-optical metro and aggregation networks nationwide.
The infrastructure is comprised of a combination of ECI’s Apollo (OPT) and Neptune (NPT) family of products all intuitively managed by ECI’s LightSOFT NMS.
Media Commerce was founded a little more than a decade ago in Colombia. Since its inception it has grown consistently by acquiring local operations and building networks for operators. They have regularly invested in upgrading their fibre optic infrastructure in order to provide suitable coverage to both business and private networks regionally. Media Commerce is now one of the largest telecom operators in the region.
ECI’s Apollo suite provides a transparent and flexible DWDM transport with integrated packet services, combining high performance, low-latency, OTN transport and OTN switching, with software configurable optical routing, for maximum efficiency. The firm’s Neptune products offer packet transport with integrated optics, and will provide the transport in the metro rings.
“This project requires a special set of performance capabilities that are uniquely available when combining the Apollo and Neptune product families. Moreover the multilayer, user-friendly network management system offers us unique operational efficiencies. This combination will enable us to offer our customers across Colombia, a multitude of services and the best possible experience,” said Victor Fabian Serna, Network & Technology Director at Media Commerce.
“ Most transport products have singular deliverables. The beauty of Apollo and Neptune is that they can be deployed in concert to provide a full packet-optical solution. The combination provides a true multi-service solution, tunnel restoration and ECI’s LightSOFT end-to-end management system,” said Carlos Brito, GM ECI LATAM.
