Verizon Communications this week announced deploying 100 gigabits-per-second technology on an ultra-long optical system on a part of its U.S. backbone network.
The New York-based telecommunications giant said it is the first global service provider to implement 100G on a U.S. long-haul network.
Verizon plans to deploy 100G on 10 routes this year, helping the company reduce latency, control costs and provide greater capacity per fiber.
“We’re seeing not only growth in traffic, but also in the need for immediacy from our customers that are managing financial transactions, health care data exchange, energy services and entertainment on-the-go," said Ihab Tarazi, vice president of global network planning at Verizon, in a statement. “With 100G, Verizon will be able to help meet those demands more efficiently and with better performance."
Verizon used Ciena’s coherent optical transport solution to support the 100G deployment. That is the same gear the carrier incorporated for its 100G deployment in Europe earlier this year, when it deployed what the carrier claims was the “world’s first standards-based, multivendor 100G Ethernet link for an IP backbone on a portion of the company’s European network between Paris and Frankfurt."
Verizon said moving to 100G enables the company to increase bandwidth efficiency on its fiber network.
“We’ve reached the inflection point where 100G makes sense from a network perspective as well as a technology and a cost perspective," Tarazi added.
