Infinera DTN-X fixes AJC submarine network outage

NEW DELHI: Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, has fixed the network path failure on the submarine optical fiber cable connecting Australia, Guam and Japan, managed by Australia Japan Cable (AJC).

AJC recently experienced a network path failure following a subsea cable fault in 7,000 meters to 8,000 meters water depth. As a result, the Infinera team and AJC rerouted over 400 gigabit per second (Gb/s) of traffic from the impacted AJC section to alternate paths on the AJC optical fiber ring configuration.

The rerouting utilized the capabilities of the Infinera DTN-X platform featuring Infinera’s Time-based Instant Bandwidth technology. The rerouting of the lost traffic was able to commence within minutes after receipt by AJC of the Time-based Instant Bandwidth license. This avoided a route outage while the cable repair ship was mobilized, transited to the repair site, and implemented in the challenging deep water repair.

AJC is a private submarine cable network and operates a 12,700 km link from Sydney to Tokyo via Guam. It experienced a subsea fault affecting services operating on the optical fiber route between Maruyama, Japan and Tumon Bay, Guam, including services on the Infinera DTN-X and other vendor platforms.

"AJC’s top priority is ensuring maximum availability in network services for our customers,” said David Crofts, CEO, AJC. “Our partnership with Infinera underscores Infinera’s incredibly rapid response but also highlights the value of operating a network based on PIC technology, the DTN-X and Infinera’s unique Time-based Instant Bandwidth capability, which enabled us to deploy software activated bandwidth incrementally in a very short period of time.”

“We are pleased to continue our successful partnership with AJC,” said Lonny Orona, Executive Vice-President for customer support at Infinera. “Customer satisfaction is of utmost importance to us and we are committed to help in any way possible so they can, in turn, fully meet their customers’ needs. Both the AJC and Infinera teams worked jointly with urgency to recover network capacity, minimizing disruption to the AJC network and services.”

With Intelligent Transport Networks, Infinera provides carriers, cloud operators, governments and enterprises the ability to deliver differentiated services by enabling a virtual pool of intelligent bandwidth.