Ciena insights
Submarine cable operators can freely mix-and-match various building blocks to create purpose-built network solutions that address specific and often unique business requirements. These options align with the overall openness movement in the networking industry, which aims to minimize or outright eliminate the closed and proprietary nature from submarine networks. Submarine cable operators are now able to choose any vendor’s terminal equipment based on the best technology at the right cost and at the time it’s required.
"There’s no ‘Plan B’ for interconnecting continents at the capacity, reliability, and latency required to keep the Internet humming. 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 content and applications in a highly reliable manner."
– Brian Lavallée, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing