Nokia has announced its first optical switch deal in Portugal.
Redes EnergeticasNacionais (REN), the Portuguese Transmission System Operator(TSO), renewed its optical transport network usingusingNokiapacket DWDM/OTNtechnology,within its telecommunications network transformation program.
REN’s optical transportlayer connects more than 25 gas and electrical substations with 1,600 km of optical fiber around the entire country. Nokia’s DWDM/OTNsolution supports network slicing to guarantee capacity and latency for operational communications services up to 100 Gigabit Ethernet speeds, ensuring a high capacitylong-haul transmission layer in REN´s private telecommunications network.
The deal follows the successful 2018 implementation of the Nokia DWDM/OTN technology for datacentreinterconnection.
CT Head Enterprise Spain & Portugal, Nokia
Following the success of the 2018 project to connect REN’s datacentres, we are proud to build on their relationship androllout this country-wide deploymentwith the support of our local partner Axians Portugal.
Inês Lucas, IT Director, REN
We have partened with Nokia and Axians to upgrade REN´soptical transmission network and provide maintenance support during its full lifecycle. It was a two year project and we were able to meet successfully our requirements and initial plan throughout a very constrained period with all the pandemic logostic and human restrictions.
