Colt & Ciena Chosen to Meet AI Content, Gaming, and Streaming Demand

Transatlantic terabit community rollout will increase capability by 20% and reduces energy consumption by 50%

Colt Technology Services (Colt), the worldwide digital infrastructure firm and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), the worldwide chief in high-speed connectivity, right now introduced the profitable rollout of a strong new transatlantic and terrestrial terabit community to assist two world content material suppliers. The expanded community will assist the hyperscalers meet rising demand for capability pushed by the rise in AI content material; gaming and video streaming companies; and adjustments in enterprise IT whereas decreasing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Using Ciena’s superior WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) transponder¹, the rollout will increase capability by 20% on a single fibre in contrast to earlier era fashions and allows Colt to obtain a 50% discount in area, energy consumption, and carbon emissions in contrast to earlier era transponders. It follows the profitable completion of the world’s first 1.2 terabit per second (Tbps) wavelength transmission throughout the Atlantic Ocean introduced by Colt and Ciena in November 2024.

AI workloads on transatlantic cables are set to leap from 8% of capability in 2025 to 30% by 2035², putting additional pressure on world routes and probably inflicting extra lag and slower speeds for customers. Content suppliers devour 74% of whole used worldwide bandwidth, up from simply 5% in 2005, estimate Telegeography in its Transport Networks Research Service³. This stress on capability is prompting visionary companies like Colt and Ciena to discover new applied sciences which assist hyperscalers and enterprises meet demand with out growing energy consumption or carbon emissions.

Buddy Bayer, chief working officer, Colt Technology Services stated, “This know-how is transformational to world content material suppliers and their potential to handle future demand. Imagine having the ability to stream hundreds of thousands of HD motion pictures concurrently, the place beforehand you might stream only one, or growing cloud gaming capability in your community by 140% – that’s the affect of what Colt and Ciena are offering. To do that responsibly is essential, and we’re always discovering methods for our options to work more durable and carry out higher whereas aligning with our, and our prospects’, sustainability targets.”

“Colt and Ciena have joined forces as soon as once more to strengthen connectivity throughout transatlantic routes, in addition to construct out new managed optical fibre networks throughout Europe and Asia,” stated Dino DiPerna, senior vp, world analysis and growth, Ciena. “Through these new MOFN managed optical fibre community tasks and main upgrades to present subsea networks, we’re constructing the supporting ecosystem to energy the AI period, paving the foundations for hyperscalers and neoscalers alike.”

Colt has adopted Ciena’s WL6e into its transatlantic route throughout the Grace Hopper subsea cable in addition to into terrestrial connections from Dublin, Ireland to London, UK and via networks in elements of Asia. With WL6e, Colt can probably generate 1.5 occasions the community capability of the normal C-band spectrum⁴.

Using WL6e, Colt’s transatlantic capability per wave has surged from 450 Gbps to 1.2 Tbps, reaching a 140% enhancement over roughly 6,500 km: the equal of earlier capability (450 Gbps) supporting round 18,000 simultaneous cloud gaming periods (at 25 Mbps every), to new capability (1.2 Tbps) supporting round 44,000 simultaneous periods.

For terrestrial hyperlinks, the capability between Lisbon, Portugal and Madrid, Spain has elevated from 600 Gbps to 1.5 Tbps, additionally reflecting a 140% rise over roughly 750 km.

Notes to Editors

¹Transponders are utilized in networks – significantly throughout long-haul networks like subsea cables – to enhance indicators, taking an incoming sign or gentle from a bit of fibre, changing it to {an electrical} sign, amplifying it then changing it again to gentle earlier than sending it onward. They permit information to journey throughout an prolonged distance whereas sustaining prime quality. Ciena’s WL6e makes use of coherent optics, which permits indicators to journey an extended distance with out shedding high quality. It facilitates up to a 50% discount in energy and area in contrast to earlier 800G options, and a 15% enchancment in spectral effectivity.

² Estimated from sources:

Cisco

• Cisco Delivers 800Gbps on Amitié Transatlantic Cable [newsroom.cisco.com]
• Cisco Demonstrates 26.4Tbps on MAREA Transatlantic Subsea Cable [newsroom.cisco.com]

TeleGeography

• Submarine Cable FAQs [www2.teleg…graphy.com]
• Building Tomorrow’s Internet: A 2025 Update on Cable Investment
• Submarine Cable Connectivity within the Atlantic [www.transa…lantic.org]

Analysys Mason

• Submarine Cable Market: Worldwide Forecast 2023–2029 [www.analys…smason.com]
• The Global Submarine Fibre-Optic Telecoms Cable Market Will Grow [www.analys…smason.com]

³ Telegeography, Transport Networks Research Service

⁴ The C-band spectrum refers to a variety of radio frequencies used for telecommunications and wi-fi information transmission, particularly in 5G networks.

Note: 80 Tbps capability allows the streaming of 10 million HD motion pictures (5GB every) concurrently, whereas C-band can deal with a single HD film stream.

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