FiberLight plans to upgrade its South Florida fiber optic network, which will be powered by Ciena’s converged packet optical and packet networking platforms. Once complete, it will offer higher bandwidth capabilities to meet big data, data mirroring and storage area network demands.
The FiberLight network investment will affect 70 percent of FiberLight’s South Florida network, which runs from North Palm Beach to Doral. When completed in late October, it will connect to nearly every data center in the region and will feature dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) nodes and Ethernet aggregation switches at six data centers in Miami – the NAP of the Americas, two Equinix locations, Miami Data Vault, QTS and Peak 10.
“Businesses in the South Florida region now have access to the latest and greatest backbone technology capable of handling all conceivable transport requirements, including large bandwidth needs,” said FiberLight’s regional director of sales, Chris Bradford. “FiberLight’s investment will support and sustain our customers’ long-term growth as big data and data mirroring trends gain more traction and continue to develop.”
FiberLight will deploy Ciena’s 6500 packet-optical platform, equipped with WaveLogic Photonics, to provide simple and quick, high-capacity wavelength connectivity across data centers in the Miami area, from 10G to 100G and beyond. FiberLight will also deploy Ciena’s 5160 Service Aggregation Switch to deliver high-capacity business services, as well as Ciena’s OneControl Unified Management System for faster service turn-up and end-to-end visibility.
“Ciena was a natural fit for this project, based on their commitment to providing end-users with the ability to scale service to meet growing business demands,” said Jeff Chapman, FiberLight’s Executive Vice President of Engineering Services. “We have been pleased with the dedication and scalability that the Ciena team has shown with respect to our expansion activities in Texas, so we were excited to bring them on board to support this investment in our South Florida footprint.”
