DALLAS, TEXAS, USA – (February 1, 2016) – The Consortium behind the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) submarine cable system project and Xtera Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: XCOM), a leading provider of high-capacity, cost-effective optical transport solutions, today announced the signature of a supply contract for equipping the three terrestrial segments in the AAE-1 Network. AAE-1 submarine cable system, scheduled for completion in 2016, is one of the largest consortium cable projects currently under way, extending some 25,000 kilometers and connecting Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Europe. Xtera will equip the AAE-1 terrestrial segments in Egypt, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore with its Wise Raman™ optical amplification and flex-rate channel card technologies, enabling 200G channels over long distances. The Malaysia–Singapore terrestrial segment will directly terminate in two separate data centers in Singapore.
The AAE-1 consortium members include China Unicom, CIL, Djibouti Telecom, Etisalat, GT5L, Mobily, Omantel, Ooredoo, OTEGLOBE, PCCW Global, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Reliance Jio, Retelit, Tele Yemen, Telecom Egypt, TOT, Viettel, VTC and VNPT. The vision shared by all AAE-1 parties is to build a seamless connection between Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe to meet insatiable capacity needs. The AAE-1 Network is designed to offer an efficient use of capacity in both subsea and terrestrial segments with high availability and low latency to fulfill this vision.
“We are proud to be part of a cable system initiative that will provide additional empowerment for the economies of all the nations along its route. When completed before the end of this year, the AAE-1 network will connect Hong Kong (SAR of China), Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France,” said Mr. Joseph Chan and Ms. Pan Ying, Co-chairs of AAE-1 Management Committee. “The terrestrial routes across Thailand represent a unique network design feature and will reduce latency between South East Asia and India/Africa/Europe.”
Xtera offers a future-proof solution based on its advanced Nu-Wave Optima™ optical networking platform combining 200G coherent technology, Wise Raman™ optical amplification solution, and fast protection switching. Each terrestrial segment is made of two physically diverse routes supporting minimum 18 Tbit/s cross-sectional capacity per fiber pair. Xtera’s flex-rate channel card features integrated service protection, offering fast 50 ms protection switching and enabling 99.999% service availability.
“Serving insatiable capacity needs, the terrestrial segments in AAE-1 submarine cable system need to maximize the capacity per fiber pair with a high level of reliability. This is exactly what our innovative optical networking solutions offer and we are excited to be part of this deployment”, said Jon Hopper, President and Chief Executive Officer of Xtera. “Our Nu-Wave Optima™ optical networking platform uses the latest coherent optical technology to offer the level of capacity and reach performances required for long-haul data center interconnect. Also offered is a high level of flexibility at the equipment level so that service providers can seamlessly face unplanned capacity demands with minimal time to market and additional investment.”
About Xtera Communications, Inc.
Xtera Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: XCOM) is a leading provider of high-capacity, cost-effective optical transport solutions, supporting the high growth in global demand for bandwidth. Xtera sells solutions to telecommunications service providers, content service providers, enterprises and government entities worldwide. Xtera’s proprietary Wise Raman™ optical amplification technology leads to capacity and reach performance advantages over competitive products. Xtera’s solutions enable cost-effective capacity to meet customers’ bandwidth requirements of today and to support their increasing bandwidth demand fueled by the development of data centers and related cloud-based services.
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