EonFibre Taps Ciena to Offer High-Capacity Wholesale Services

Dedicated fibre business is leveraging advanced technology from Ciena to double traffic capacity on parts of its network, highlighting additional investment. EonFibre is now operational, offering a cost-effective, secure and resilient fibre alternative for selected wholesale customers including hyperscalers.

To further improve the connectivity experience for wholesale business customers, EonFibre is deploying Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) to support network resiliency and availability. This advanced technology will enable EonFibre to double traffic capacity on parts of its network to 1.6Tb/s for each wavelength deployed compared to the previous technology generation.

“EonFibre is now open for business. Our customers will benefit from additional investment into our fibre assets, such as this new Ciena technology, to offer a great wholesale connectivity experience through either EonFibre or One NZ Infrastructure Partners,” says General Manager, Richard Mooney.

“Our new customer self-service portal will allow better visibility of a customer’s network inventory and will make it easier to order products and services from EonFibre.

“We’ve been servicing One New Zealand as a customer for the past month. We are looking forward to partnering with other organisations wanting high-performing fibre services built for businesses not consumers.”

WL6e is next-generation coherent technology that elevates network performance and is more energy-efficient than previous technology generations.

Richard adds: “We understand how important performance and reliability is in today’s digital world, especially with data-hungry applications like AI. Working with Ciena and deploying WL6e is an example of how we’re investing more into our fibre assets to provide a capacity boost to meet the bandwidth needs of an increasingly-digital New Zealand.”

EonFibre will be offering customers access on extensive fibre and core digital infrastructure including more than 11,000 kms of fibre cables in New Zealand, a core backbone network plus metro fibre rings, and enabling connectivity to all leading data centres. EonFibre offers international connectivity across three fibre cables – TGA, Hawaiki and Southern Cross – plus domestic connectivity via Aqualink.

“As global investments in AI surge, the role of resilient and flexible network infrastructure becomes critical. With WaveLogic 6, EonFibre is building a network that is “AI-ready”, capable of handling the massive datasets required for training, processing, optimising and new value creation in an AI era,” said Matt Vesperman, Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Ciena.

EonFibre is a dedicated business unit operating with the One New Zealand group.