Trying to a programmable infrastructure to ship 400G connectivity that may assist progress in high-bandwidth providers, Liberty International firm Telenet is deploying optical and network administration options to assist its network growth across Belgium.
The biggest supplier of cable broadband providers in Belgium, supporting nearly 5 million subscribers, Telenet specialises within the provide of broadband web, fastened and cellular telephony providers and cable tv to prospects all through Flanders, Brussels and elements of Wallonia, over a hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) network. It additionally provides skilled communication providers to companies in Belgium and Luxembourg, and its BASE model provides cellular providers all through Belgium.
Ciena is upgrading Telenet’s optical network, which connects shoppers and companies in metro areas, with a set of options, together with WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) which gives 400G connectivity, whereas delivering what are claimed to be vital energy, area and operational efficiencies. The 400G QSFP-DD coherent pluggable transceivers provide assist of higher-performance, interoperable transmission to ship 400G connectivity across all hyperlinks within the network.
As well as, Ciena’s Waveserver 5 interconnect platform is being deployed to allow Telenet to scale the network sooner or later as wanted. It provides assist for a number of generations of coherent know-how, together with 100GbE and 400GbE functions in a compact footprint.
Different options being deployed embrace the 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS), a photonic layer answer with built-in instrumentation and automation instruments to make sure most fibre capability whereas enabling sooner, easier, line system deployment; and the Handle, Management and Plan (MCP) area controller, for managing and automating the network all through its whole operational lifecycle. Telenet can also be utilizing Ciena’s PinPoint app to make sure network availability by isolating and troubleshooting fibre faults.
Telenet regards the network upgrade as not nearly including extra capability, but additionally making a extra energy-efficient and sustainable network, with the Ciena know-how delivering vital effectivity upgrades and due to this fact enabling energy financial savings, making the network cheaper and sustainable to run.
The deployment, beginning in January 2024, can also be seen as a major step in enabling Telenet to enhance its buyer expertise and assist rising demand, whereas additionally making the network easier.
“Ciena has taken plenty of time to completely perceive the necessities for our next-generation network and the way it can assist our prospects for many years to return,” stated Luk Bruynseels, chief product and know-how officer at Telenet. “Throughout a rigorous choice course of, it turned clear that Ciena was capable of provide us all the pieces we would have liked to upgrade our network and supply high-capacity and bandwidth capabilities, underpinned by clever network administration.”
