Topic: Connectivity

Picture a music festival on a dry lakebed two hours from the nearest fiber handoff. Forty thousand people show up. Every one of them wants to tap a card at a beer tent, post a clip, find their friends. And the single cell tower serving that valley? It melts within the first ninety minutes. This isn't a hypothetical. Event IT teams have watched it happen for years, and it's the exact gap that low-earth-orbit satellite has started filling in ways terrestrial planners didn't expect.

Biznet, an integrated digital infrastructure company in Indonesia, has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) on the international link of its submarine cable Biznet Nusantara Cable System-1 (BNCS-1), providing inter-island connectivity across Java, Sumatra and Bangka Islands.