Wholesale carrier Angola Cables has selected Ciena´s (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh and Blue Planet solutions to support its new service launch on the MONET subsea cable, the company said.
This 10,556 km route will provide more than 25 Tb/s of traffic on Angola Cables´ network between the US and Latin America´s major business hub of São Paulo, Brazil.
Angola Cables´ wholesale customers can utilize this additional connectivity to support surging bandwidth demands driven by on-demand applications such as over-the-top (OTT) video and cloud computing.
Angola Cables is a multinational telecommunications company founded in 2009, which operates in the wholesale market and whose core business is the commercialization of capacity in international circuits for voice and data through Submarine Cable Systems throughout the South Atlantic and Africa.
Angola Cables is responsible for the management and development of WACS (West Africa Cable System) proving carrier level services to operators in Angola and in Sub-Saharan region of the African continent, fast becoming one of the leading capacity providers in the region. It also operates Angonix (Angolan IXP) in its data center in Luanda, and is building a world-class data center and interconnection facility in Fortaleza, Brazil. Africa is today the fastest growing region of Internet penetration in the world. Angola Cables´ goal is to transform Angola into one of the telecommunication hubs in Africa.
Ciena is a network strategy and technology company.
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