Two Trials and a Deployment for Ciena’s Optical Tech

With ITW underway, yesterday Ciena announced two trials and an upgrade with three network operators, one in the eastern US, one on the Mexican border, and one down in Brazil.

Windstream Wholesale has been putting Ciena’s WL6e technology to the test. They ran 3x800Gbps and 2×1.2Tbps wave services across their Beach route, a 1,590km fiber segment from Virginia Beach to Jacksonville. Windstream Wholesale says it plans to start selling 800G waves in the second half of this year, and is preparing to serve customers in need of multi-800G connections.

Flō Networks has tapped Ciena to unveil new network routes between the Mexican data center market of Querétaro and destinations in the US. They are using Ciena’s WL5e coherent optics, 6500 Packet-Optical platform, and Navigator network control suite to deliver native 400G transport. Flō Networks, which was Transtelco until 2022, has long focused on such cross-border infrastructure.

And Brazil’s Eletronet has trialed Ciena’s WL6e technology for a 1.6Tbps single-wavelength connection. The test leveraged 40km of Eletronet’s Optical Ground Wire metro network in São Paulo between their own facility in Granja Julieta and Equinix SP4. Meanwhile they also tested a longhaul link of 1.2Tbps over more than 1500km from São Paulo to Porto Alegre to the south. Eletronet has been modernizing its infrastructure, which spans 17,000km across 18 Brazilian states.

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