C&W Networks has selected Xtera Communications to upgrade its submarine cable systems in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea with 100G coherent solution. The deployment saw C&W Networks strengthening its submarine network capacity with the upgrade of several segments without repeaters, leveraging Xtera's multipurpose Nu-Wave Optima platform.
C&W Networks is part of Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), the largest provider of telecommunications services throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and the United States with more than 48,000 miles of undersea fiber optic network.
Paul Scott , President , C & W Networks
The overall construction of data centers, together with the rapid deployment of cloud-based services, driving renewed demand for connections and fixed burst speeds even higher with emphasis on high availability through redundancy.
Jon Hopper, President and CEO of Xtera
Strengthening our partnership with C & W Networks, this new upgrade projects are yet further evidence of the confidence that network operators deposited in the capabilities of Xtera to improve the infrastructure of optical transmission submarine already implemented worldwide.