Ciena upgrades GeoMesh Extreme platform for submarine cable operators

Ciena said its GeoMesh Extreme submarine platform now supports L-Band capabilities and can operate on TE SubCom’s L-Band wet plant system, nearly doubling the information-carrying capacity of a submarine cable. This upgrade brings new capabilities that enable submarine cable operators to better address surging bandwidth demand driven by video-centric streaming, virtual reality, the Internet of Things, and future applications such as 5G, the company said in press release.

Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme platform now opens up the L-Band (~ 1656nm to 1625nm) in the same optical fibre, doubling the amount of information operators can support on a single submarine cable. This means that submarine cable operators can potentially secure twice the amount of potential revenue over a single cable, versus deploying two traditional cables, and yield better economies of scale for an improved return on submerged network assets.