Seaborn Networks Selects Xtera's C+L Band Design for ARBR to Serve the Needs of the ICP Community
May 01, 2018 at 08:00 am EDT
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Xtera®, the system supplier for the ARBR project, announced that Seaborn Networks (“Seaborn”) has selected its C+L band design for the system between Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. ARBR utilizes the advanced technology of Xtera in order to meet the growing capacity requirements of Internet Content Providers on this crucial route. The ARBR system will allow for direct onward connectivity to New York, via Seaborn’s Seabras-1 system, thereby providing a lower latency route between the commercial and financial centers of Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and New York. Xtera’s proven wideband repeater is a hybrid Raman /EDFA design and can be configured to provide bandwidth in the C band alone, or across the C+L bands. First deployed in 2015, Xtera’s addition of Raman amplification to standard repeater technology has been used to achieve bandwidths of approximately 70 nm, while also offering very low noise solutions. Development continues to increase the capacity on a fibre pair to well over 100Tbit/s, further demonstrating that high capacity solutions do not have to mean large and costly fibre count systems.
Xtera Communications, Inc. is a provider of subsea systems and telecoms technology. The Company supplies unrepeatered and repeatered networks, through optical amplifiers to deliver traffic directly in inland. Its portfolio of services includes system design, project planning and feasibility studies, on-shore and off-shore security during installation, desktop study, route survey and cable engineering, in-house permitting service, route clearance, shore end and installation operations, post lay inspection and burial, landing route and station development, testing and commissioning, training, and maintenance and operational support. Its products include submarine system technology, repeater units, branching units, open systems, open systems gateway, network management system, optima terminal equipment and unrepeatered systems. It offers Nu-wave Optima platform, which provides a modular platform that serves terrestrial, unrepeatered and ultra-long span submarine applications.