Swells capacity of single fibre to 48 Tbps
Saudi telecoms company stc claims it has created the world’s first 1.2 terabit per second channel trial within its dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) optical network. DWDM optical fibre technology is used to increase the bandwidth of existing fibre networks and stc says the completion of the project, which it ran with expertise and equipment from Huawei, makes it the leader in ultra-high-speed transmission.
The optical layer uses the Super C technology (120 channels in one pair of fibre) and the maximum single-fibre capacity can reach 48 Tbs, as the Saudi Arabia telco aims to cater for new services and applications such as e-government, smart health, online education and a national digital transformation. “Huawei’s transmission technology multiplies the single-fibre capacity four-fold and makes enormous efficiency improvements on optical networks,” said chief engineer Bader Allhieb, who is vice president of infrastructure at stc group.
In future, stc Group and Huawei will collaborate on more ultra-high-speed optical transmission. The partners will invent better optical networks and provide high-quality connection services to cope with explosive the traffic growth on stc’s network, said Allhieb.
The stc group is the leader of the region in the field of optical transmission innovation, claimed Allheib. It has paid a great deal of attention to large-capacity transmission technologies. And Huawei’s involvement has been a great testament to its ability to create 1.2 terabit channels for data transmission on the stc live network, said Allhieb.
In October stc created a regional digital centre for the Middle East and North Africa, Center3, setting up a company which owns the digital infrastructure assets owned by stc group, including data centres, subsea cables, international points of presence and internet exchange points.