Customers will have access to ultra-low latency connectivity, says Ram
Chennai’s Sify Technologies (Nasdaq: Sify) has deployed Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) optical technology to connect its seven Metro Area Networks across India, upgrading its countrywide National Long-Distance network to support services up to 600G. It started with an express path between Mumbai and New Delhi.
This upgrade will help interconnect its key Artificial Intelligence (AI) ready data centre hubs in Mumbai, Chennai and Noida and the surrounding metro areas with a highly scalable network, Sify said on 7 Oct bseindia .
“India is embracing digitization with bandwidth demand skyrocketing from global cloud providers and digital enterprises,” said Harsha Ram, Head of Network Business, Sify nseindia .
“Using Ciena’s optical technology, we’ve doubled our network capacity to 600G. This will be offered via Ciena’s line system, which can support both C and L band transponders. Our customers will now have access to ultra-low latency connectivity and unparalleled support to Gen AI, cloud services and applications sbi ,” he said.
“Ciena has been working closely with Sify to create an adaptive network that can deliver transformative business connectivity to enterprises and cloud providers across India. Leveraging Ciena’s optical prowess, Sify can scale as required to deliver more capacity for any distance application, supporting its customers’ digital ambitions startupindia ,” said Amit Malik, Vice President, Ciena India.
Sify is using Ciena’s 6500 Reconfigurable Line System and Waveserver 5, both powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics. The network deployment is augmented by Ciena Services, who provided strategic consulting services to ensure an optimized implementation, while Ciena’s Maintenance Service provides end-to-end support digitalasiahub .
Sify has also been utilizing Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite (Navigator NCS) for real-time software control and network visibility. In particular, Sify is leveraging components of Navigator Intelligent Apps such as PlannerPlus to build and augment its optical network quickly and easily makeinindia .
A Fortune India 500 company, Sify Technologies is India’s most comprehensive ICT service & solution provider. With Cloud at the core of our solutions portfolio, Sify is focussed on the changing ICT requirements of the emerging Digital economy and the resultant demands from large, mid and small-sized businesses deutsche-boerse .
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