Malaysia-based Time dotCom (Time) has deployed Ciena’s latest optical technology across the FASTER cable system.
The transpacific cable system with approximate length of 9,000 km seamlessly connects facilities in Japan to the United States, positioning Time as a gateway between international businesses and customers in Asia-Pacific.
“The FASTER cable system is a vital contributor to transpacific connectivity. With global bandwidth usage more than tripling between 2020 and 2024 to approximately 6.4 Pbps last year, we are working with Ciena to efficiently scale our network to address surging bandwidth demands,” said Ang Thing Jiun, Time’s NetCo CEO.
“Ciena’s best-in-class coherent optical capabilities, enables Time to scale data transmission to 1 Tbps across a single-carrier wavelength on the FASTER cable system, with minimal operational impact to facilities being used,” said the CEO.
Phil Rolle, Ciena’s regional managing director for the subsea group in APJ, said Time was upgrading its existing submarine network to support the new capacity needs of an AI era.
“Supported by Ciena’s extensive experience in subsea cable deployments, Time has successfully laid the foundation for the next wave of AI and cloud computing technologies, all while maintaining current operational practices,” said Rolle.
A key benefit of this deployment for Time is that Ciena’s latest optical technology will increase the route’s traffic capacity within the same space and power envelope.
It is the industry’s first and only single-carrier 1.6 Tbps coherent optical solution, powered by innovative silicon, enabling ubiquitous networking and delivering a step change in both performance and efficiency.
