Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has partnered with ICT solutions provider Huawei, to deliver 100G upgrades to its network in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The upgrade to 100G wavelengths will take advantage of the latest DWDM technology from Huawei, enabling Liquid Telecom to offer additional capacity, faster speeds and greater redundancy to customers across the country.<\/p>\n
The first phase of the project will see Liquid Telecom deploy Huawei\u2019s OptiX OSN Solution along 1,200km of its long-haul network connecting Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n
The 100G link will support growing demand for cloud-based services and provide customers with high-speed access to Liquid Telecom\u2019s data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.<\/p>\n
In the second and third phase of the project, the DWDM core network will be extended to the north west then north east regions of South Africa, providing more enterprise and wholesale customers in South Africa with high bandwidth connectivity.<\/p>\n
In addition, the network upgrades will support Liquid Telecom\u2019s new CloudConnect for Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute service, which enables customers to create private, predictable, high performance, SLA-based connections between Azure data centres and infrastructure on their premises or in a colocation environment.<\/p>\n
OptiX OSN Solution is Huawei\u2019s next-generation core packet-optical OTN platform for 100G\/400G\/1T and beyond, which is used for building high-performance backbone and metro networks.<\/p>\n
It integrates Huawei\u2019s advanced Packet, OTN, and SDN-oriented Optics Transport technologies, and offers a high-density architecture with ultra-low power consumption per bit.<\/p>\n
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