MONTREAL – Bell Canada announced Thursday a new commercial “400G wavelength service” that will deliver “significantly increased connectivity speeds and capacity required by the largest cloud and data centre providers while optimizing network performance and energy efficiency.”
The new service, driven by Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme technology, offers “faster connectivity, increased capacity, low latency and higher energy efficiency for major cloud operators, content providers and carriers moving massive amounts of data,” reads the release.
“Bell 400G wavelength service efficiently delivers the speed and capacity necessary to meet the fast-growing demand of bandwidth-intensive operators moving massive amounts of data and content to the cloud,” said Ivan Mihaljevic, Bell’s senior vice-president, wholesale.
Now deployed across major spans of Bell’s 17,000 km fibre infrastructure, 400G service will continue to grow nationally in the coming months, says the company, delivering four times the data speed and 50% more capacity per wavelength.
“The global shift to 400G is happening and Bell Canada is leading the way by evolving its network to support the insatiable and often unpredictable network demand driven by the cloud, streaming video and more,” added Bruce Hembree, vice-president and general manager for the Americas at Ciena.
