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Idea, Huawei deploy 100G DWDM network

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Telecommunications service provider Idea Cellular announced that networking company Huawei has deployed 100G DWDM network on its optical back bone network.

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As part of Phase-II of optical back bone network in 2013, Idea has now deployed 100G DWDM system, releasing its advantages over 10G or 40G.

The OTN based DWDM platform supplied by Huawei support 80 channels with capacity of each channel as 100G at spacing of 50GHz, helping idea to enhance its network capacity by several folds as it is capable of 8 Tb/s transport capacity now, says a release.

"Huawei's 100G solution uses cutting-edge technologies such as coherent WDM, HD-FEC, ASON and OTN. This DWDM network gives high performance for ultra-long-haul 100G transmission, and ASON technology makes backbone network intelligent and resilient to multiple fiber cuts." said by Chandan Kumar, dy. director, Fixed Network solutions sales, Huawei.

Idea completed the Phase-I of the pan-India, OTN based DWDM network ready for all IP, on its backbone Network in 2011, with solutions from Huawei.

"With 100G DWDM system, having OTN based ASON in backbone optical network; Idea is geared up for the data explosion in coming years. Idea has always been leading in new technologies' deployment and this is one more example of the same." said Anil Tandon, CTO of Idea Cellular.

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