Ciena Corporation announced to support growing demand for more bandwidth across the Asia-to-Europe route, SEA-ME-WE 4 (South East Asia ? Middle East ? Western Europe 4) recently completed an upgrade to its submarine cable system.

Powered by Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution, the upgrade enables a capacity increase from 65Tb/s to 122Tb/s on the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable system. With GeoMesh Extreme, leveraging Ciena?s 6500 Packet-Optical platform, SEA-ME-WE 4 can maintain pace with voracious global demand for bandwidth, protect terabits of traffic, and ensure optimal network availability. Additionally, Ciena?s WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics help significantly lower costs by increasing the capacity per wave up to 450Gb/s. SEA-ME-WE 4 is also utilizing Ciena?s Navigator Network Control Suite for real-time visibility into and control of network performance.