Hibernia Atlantic first to offer native 40 Gbps WL capacity across Atlantic
First Published Tuesday, 18 August 2009 from Automated Trader :
Hibernia Atlantic becomes first transport provider to offer native 40 gbps wavelength capacity across the Atlantic for commercial use
Hibernia Atlantic, the transAtlantic submarine transport cable
provider, has announced that it has become the first company to
offer native, 40 Gbps wavelength (WL) capacity across the
Atlantic Ocean, without the need for external equipment. By
deploying the latest 40G network technology, Hibernia has
increased the potential capacity of the Atlantic system to
10.16Tb/s.
Hibernia Atlantic's first-to-market offering is in response to
its North American customers' demand for greater bandwidth
capacity, stemming from the precipitous rise in deployment of
next-generation services, such as streaming video, IP multimedia
and web conferencing. Additionally, financial exchanges and media
houses need secure and high-performance capacity to ensure they
are meeting their industries' critical network requirements.
"Hibernia Atlantic is pleased to offer its clients this new,
native 40 Gbps (WL) technology across the Atlantic," states
Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO for Hibernia Atlantic. "This latest
achievement displays Hibernia's continued commitment to deploy
the most advanced, innovative capacity upgrades for commercial
use across the Hibernia cable system. This offering provides
global investment banks, CDNs, broadcasters, international PTTs
and ISPs in need of high-bandwidth a better network solution.
With increased capacity, on a reliable network at wholesale
prices, companies can continue to deploy streaming video and
other next-generation applications and services over the Hibernia
Atlantic network, with confidence and ease."
"The ability to offer Hibernia Atlantic's customers native 40 Gbps connectivity across the Atlantic is a great advance in network efficiency, providing customers additional capacity to communicate over Hibernia's diverse and secure cable route," continues Eric Gutshall, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Hibernia. "This new subsea advancement is another example of Hibernia Atlantic's commitment to providing the highest levels of network performance, innovation and customer satisfaction to the market, in record-breaking time."
