Ciena to focus on financial sector, carriers with 100 Gbps DWDM solution
Network solutions provider Ciena Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN) will focus on Brazil's financial sector and carriers to sell its newly introduced DWDM multiplexer capable of transmitting data speeds of 100 Gbps, Ciena's sales VP for Latin America and the Caribbean Fabio Medina, told BNamericas.
Ciena announced the availability of the solution in Brazil during the Futurecom telecoms conference held last week in Sao Paulo. The technology will be sold through local systems integrator First Tech and, according to Ciena, is the first 100 Gbps optical multiplexer available in Brazil where up to now the fastest speeds have been 10-40 Gbps.
According to Medina, today a lot more applications are sensitive to latency and milliseconds of delay can be critical for example in the case of the New York Stock Exchange, which adopted Ciena's DWDM.
"The NYSE said delay was costing them millions of dollars. If I place a purchase order to buy stock and a broker gets there a micro second before me, I lose the stock. So having less delay on the line became an economic driver to actually increase their transmission rate," Medina said.
Brazil in particular is at a critical stage when the country needs faster bit rate speeds due to support the burgeoning domestic traffic growth.
In addition, as the country prepares for the demands of the upcoming World Cup and Olympics in 2014 and 2016 respectively, Ciena's DWDM 100 Gbps is a good fit as it is capable of carrying 3D and HD images, Medina said.
Source: http://www.csann.com/submarine-telecom/south-america/106-ciena-to-focus-on-financial-sector-carriers-with-100-gbps-dwdm-solution.html
Ciena announced the availability of the solution in Brazil during the Futurecom telecoms conference held last week in Sao Paulo. The technology will be sold through local systems integrator First Tech and, according to Ciena, is the first 100 Gbps optical multiplexer available in Brazil where up to now the fastest speeds have been 10-40 Gbps.
According to Medina, today a lot more applications are sensitive to latency and milliseconds of delay can be critical for example in the case of the New York Stock Exchange, which adopted Ciena's DWDM.
"The NYSE said delay was costing them millions of dollars. If I place a purchase order to buy stock and a broker gets there a micro second before me, I lose the stock. So having less delay on the line became an economic driver to actually increase their transmission rate," Medina said.
Brazil in particular is at a critical stage when the country needs faster bit rate speeds due to support the burgeoning domestic traffic growth.
In addition, as the country prepares for the demands of the upcoming World Cup and Olympics in 2014 and 2016 respectively, Ciena's DWDM 100 Gbps is a good fit as it is capable of carrying 3D and HD images, Medina said.
Source: http://www.csann.com/submarine-telecom/south-america/106-ciena-to-focus-on-financial-sector-carriers-with-100-gbps-dwdm-solution.html
