Ciena’s WaveLogic: Accelerating connectivity and innovation in Southeast Asia
In motorsport, teams expend huge amounts of effort to shave fractions of seconds off here and there to gain the slightest advantage over the competition. Each incremental gain marks the payoff for long hours of research, testing, and trialing to create the ultimate racer.
But sometimes, improvements come all at once, and an entire class can see performance improvements come in a flurry. Lap times improve by seconds over the course of just a few seasons – the result of innovation and willingness to invest in big leaps.
In the network space, Ciena’s WaveLogic 6, represents one giant leap ahead.
The right choice for new opportunities
The debut of WaveLogic 6 comes as we see a push for digital innovation and a burst of new investments and construction in data centers within Southeast Asia.
Countries like Thailand are strategically located to serve as vital data storage, cloud computing, and junction points on a local, regional, and global level. In fact, the country’s data-center market is expected to reach a value of $1.338 billion by 2028, up from $764 million in 2022.
The improvements our next-generation platform delivers allow cloud, content, and service providers to skip a step or two in delivering better service to the end user, including:
- Passing over 1.2Tb/s and going straight to 1.6Tb/s wavelengths
- Skipping 5nm and shrinking right down to 3nm CMOS
- Enabling the widest network coverage of 800G
All this, and more, represents a revolution – not an evolution – in network technology and data distribution and enhances your ability to lay bigger pipes on a larger scale and deliver a whole new network experience to an entire region.
As the nations of Southeast Asia are committed to a low-carbon future, WaveLogic 6 will be a powerful tool to deliver both technological advancement and sustainable development throughout the region.
As an important hub for manufacturing, retail, and entertainment consumption, Southeast Asia is adopting the latest in cloud-native applications at a rapid pace. This brisk growth is driving ongoing interest in data-center expansion and new subsea deployments.
As these new applications require intense processing capability and ultra-low latency, WaveLogic 6 provides the fastest connectivity speeds, unprecedented fiber capacity, and ease of adoption necessary for quick-and-simple expansions and upgrades.
New tech, new savings
WaveLogic 6 provides other benefits beyond improved network performance. Building on the sustainability achievements of WaveLogic 5, it is more power efficient compared to previous generations, delivering at least a 50% reduction in power-per-bit and a 15% increase in spectral efficiency.
Technological advancements also mean better performance in a smaller package. In fact, WaveLogic 6 delivers double the capacity per wavelength, taking up half the space and half the number of transponders to deploy. This means physical footprints can be shrunk along with accompanying reductions in maintenance requirements, heat generation, and cooling costs.
As the nations of Southeast Asia are committed to a low-carbon future, WaveLogic 6 will be a powerful tool to deliver both technological advancement and sustainable development throughout the region.
Accelerating network development and expansion
For cloud, content, and service providers wanting to deploy the most-advanced networks possible, WaveLogic 6 is the revolution they are looking for. With bold leaps in performance and large cuts in cost and energy consumption, it delivers new levels of speed and capacity with significant leeway for future growth, meaning your network will be pushing the limit for years to come.
Now is not the time to settle for incremental improvements. Instead, get another optical world first with WaveLogic 6. The New Standard in coherent optical innovation.
