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Flag to tap Ciena's Waveserver service on Echo subsea cable
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Subsea cable firm Flag (Fibre-optic Links Around the Globe) has confirmed it will deploy Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme technology on the Echo subsea cable system.
Key facts
- The Waveserver platform that has been deployed on the cable is equipped with WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) 1.6 Tb/s coherent optics, along with an RLS line system on its more than 16,000km (9,941 miles)
- The announcement today (September 21) comes as Ciena also confirmed that it has provided its WL6e technology for the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) cable system, which connects Western Europe, West
- Beyond the Echo subsea cable, Flag also offers capacity on the FA-1, HAWK, Falcon, MEDEX, FEA, IEX, and FNAL systems
- The subsea cable, announced in 2021 and owned by Google and Meta, will span more than 17,000km
Summary
This will see Flag launch new 400GbE and 800GbE services between Asia and North America. Flag, the company formerly known as GCX has a new name and is honing in on serving AI data centers. Flag first acquired capacity on Google’s Echo cable in December of last year. The subsea cable, announced in 2021 and owned by Google and Meta, will span more than 17,000km.