Telecom Egypt is deploying Ciena\u2019s GeoMesh solution and packet-optical platforms for reliable, low-latency connectivity to meet surging demands for high-bandwidth services on its national terrestrial network and submarine links between the Mediterranean and Asia. With a more agile and scalable network, Telecom Egypt\u2019s wholesale carrier, service provider, internet content provider and consortium customers will be able to provide diverse data transit routes for international datacentre interconnect DCI, disaster recovery, cloud-based services, and other high-capacity services for enterprise and consumer end-customers.<\/p>\n
With more than 160 years of operational history, Telecom Egypt is the largest provider of fixed line services in the Middle East and Africa. Telecom Egypt offers a complete range of international telecommunications services, including voice, data, dark fiber, colocation and tailored data solutions. Its unique geographic location spans about 1,000 km on the Red Sea and 1,000 km on the Mediterranean Sea, and connects more than seventeen cable systems through seven diversified routes and five landing stations across Egypt.<\/p>\n
A key benefit of the Ciena-enabled mesh restoration of interconnected terrestrial and submarine networks<\/a> is that Telecom Egypt can extend its offerings with a suite of extremely robust, diverse, high-availability networking services that can survive unexpected hardware and fiber route failures. Ciena\u2019s GeoMesh<\/a> also allows Telecom Egypt to proactively resolve unexpected issues and maintain network reliability.<\/p>\n Ciena\u2019s 6500<\/a> and 5430<\/a> packet-optical platforms, powered by WaveLogic Extreme coherent optics<\/a>, allows Telecom Egypt to offer a diverse mix of services over high-capacity wavelengths; supporting any type of traffic, including fully transparent optical transport networks OTN, virtual private networks VPN, optical VPN and Ethernet services, all with stringent SLAs. The advanced performance monitoring and testing capabilities from Ciena enables fast service turn up and ability to address faults quickly and easily.<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/_0hSUZg6NxI<\/p>\n