Benzinga | May 12, 2021 08:05AM EDT

Aqua Comms, Telia Carrier And Ciena Highlights Trial Of New 400GbE POP To POP Trans-Atlantic Service

The service is the first of its kind to be trialed across the Atlantic on a live network and will connect Data Centre locations in New York, London and Frankfurt

Aqua Comms DAC ("Aqua Comms"), the owner and operator of America Europe Connect-1 (AEC-1), America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) and CeltixConnect-1 (CC-1) and Telia Carrier, the number one Internet backbone provider, today announced that the two companies have successfully completed a trial with Ciena to offer 400GbE commercial services between New York and Frankfurt.

The trial follows the announcement that Aqua Comms upgraded its two Trans-Atlantic submarine cable routes with Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution, which leverages WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optical technology. Aqua Comms provided the Trans-Atlantic capacity and 400GbE service from New York to London with Telia Carrier providing the ongoing terrestrial service from London to Frankfurt demonstrating that their traffic can be passed on seamlessly across their respective transmission networks and utilized on Telia Carrier's IP Backbone (AS1299) with active 400G interfaces routing on both continents.