Nokia, Megacable Achieve Milestone in Long-Distance Optical Transmission

Megacable and Nokia have managed to successfully execute long-distance optical transmission tests, reaching 1.1 Tbps (Terabits per second). This is the first optical channel of this capacity to be implemented in an active network of a single operator in Latin America, which represents a milestone for telecommunications in the region.

This increased capacity will interconnect Megacable Data Centers throughout Mexico to provide the best fiber optic connectivity to its residential, business, corporate, government and operator users.

“We have worked in collaboration with Nokia carrying out successful data transmission tests and now we have achieved this important advance, without making any prior preparation for the test and with services operating. Having high-capacity channels on national routes helps us transport greater amounts of traffic with better performance,” highlighted Miguel Sol, Engineering Director of Megacable.

For his part, Felipe Leão, Director of Optical Transport for Latin America at Nokia, commented: “Nokia's optical network solutions continue to evolve to allow innovative customers like Megacable to have cutting-edge technology to easily scale, seamlessly covering the needs of current transport and preparing the network for the needs of the future. We are pleased to have been an essential part of this successful trial with Megacable and we look forward to collaborating on future projects with them.”

This type of solutions allows operators such as Megacable and its subsidiaries MetroCarrier and ho1a Innovación, to provide the high-speed, low-latency ultra-broadband connectivity that is essential for the education, health, business and entertainment sectors of the future, at the same time that reduce network energy consumption and operating costs per bit.

The test is part of the actions that Megacable is taking to exponentially scale the capacity of its network and increase its long-distance data transmission speeds from 9.6 Tbps to 38.4 Tbps, interconnecting all its data centers nationwide. With this technological implementation, its evolution focuses on increasing capacity per channel instead of increasing the number of channels.

To achieve this objective, Megacable selected Nokia because it demonstrated, in the initial implementation of its DWDM network, 9.6 Tbps of total capacity with optical spectrum efficiency, as well as a reduction in energy consumption, generating savings in CAPEX and OPEX and cost-benefit. in bandwidth increasing over the Long Haul fiber network, to cover the requirements of all its markets, especially residential, business and operators.