Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) announced the deployment of
Infinera’s new XTS-3300 meshponders on its Seabras-1 submarine cable, which
spans 10,600-km and offers a direct connection between São Paulo, Brazil and
New York City. The new subsea cable,
which is now ready for commercial service, enables Seaborn to offer SeaSpeed,
its proprietary lowest-latency route, between these key global financial
centers.
Seabras-1 is the longest uncompensated cable connecting
North and South America. It has multiple branching units and is designed to
provide additional route diversity to Virginia Beach, Miami, St. Croix,
Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, southern Brazil and Cape Town.
Infinera said Seaborn selected its XTS-3300 to deliver the
industry’s highest subsea spectral efficiency and lowest power consumption. While
many subsea cables can take days to activate capacity, the Seaborn team was able
to configure the XTS-3300 and light the fiber in an impressive 30 minutes.
Infinera noted that its unique large-scale photonic
integration technology delivers terabit super-channels and, along with the
Advanced Coherent Toolkit (ACT), enables rapid activation of subsea links. Infinera
Instant Bandwidth enables Seaborn to deploy bandwidth in 100 Gb/s increments
within minutes and a few clicks of a mouse, while the XTS-3300 platform enables
scalability up to 11.8 terabits per second on a fiber.
Infinera also noted that the XTS-3300 seamlessly integrates
with Seaborn’s existing Infinera terrestrial backhaul networks in Brazil and
New York, which include Infinera’s XTC and XTM Series.
“Infinera continues to push the physics of the optical
transport world for the benefit of our customers and the networks they run. The
XTS-3300 is purpose-built for subsea applications, delivering industry leading
subsea performance while integrating seamlessly into Seaborn’s existing
terrestrial and subsea network,” stated Tom Fallon, Infinera Chief Executive
Officer.
Infinera also confirmed that the ICE4-based XT-3300 and
XTS-3300 are now shipping. Earlier this year Infinera began shipping the ICE-4
based Cloud Xpress 2, the second generation of its metro data center
interconnect platforms.
