Ciena Insights
There are now options for submarine cable operators to mix-and-match building blocks to create purpose-built network solutions. These options align with the openness movement, which strives to minimize or outright eliminate the closed and proprietary nature from submarine networks. Submarine cable operators are now able to easily choose any vendor’s terminal equipment based on the best technology for the right cost at the time it’s required to address specific business requirements.
"There’s no ‘Plan B’ for interconnecting continents at the capacity, reliability, and latency required to keep the Internet humming—satellites need not apply. This vital fact means that submarine networking technologies will (and must) continue to rapidly evolve, out of sheer necessity, just to maintain pace with our voracious appetite for Internet content and in a highly reliable manner."
– Brian Lavallée, Senior Director of Portfolio Solutions Marketing