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The Infinera DTN-X platform has also been selected for the company's terrestrial network connecting several data centres in Sydney, enabling a single fibre to carry up to 8Tbps.

Infinera says that Pipe selected its technology "After a detailed multi-vendor evaluation process...for the scalability, efficiency and simplicity it brings to its network."

Lee Harper, head of network engineering for Pipe Networks and the TPG Group, said: "The DTN-X platform's interoperability between our existing terrestrial and submarine networks, its ease of use when provisioning services along with the elimination of transponders at cable landing stations all led to our decision. We move a significant amount of data around the country, and deploying the DTN-X allows us to distribute reliable, high-capacity services with great simplicity and with industry-leading provisioning lead times."

According to Infinera "One of the key factors in Pipe's selection of the Infinera DTN-X platform was the attraction of a solution based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Additional key benefits of the Infinera DTN-X platform include: PICs enable high capacity wavelength division multiplexing to be integrated with 5Tbps of Optical transport network (OTN) switching without performance compromise; integrated non-blocking OTN switching allows each wavelength to be efficiently utilised, resulting in fewer wavelengths for a set of service demands; a reduction in capital and operating costs due to fewer fibre connections, less space and lower power consumption across the network, resulting in more cost effective services for Pipe's customers."

PPC-1 went live in October 2009. It comprises two fibre pairs each with 10Gbps wavelengths and capable of carrying 2.56Tbps (128 × 10Gbps wavelengths per fibre pair). According to the Pipe Networks' web site "A move to 40Gbps wavelengths would boost the system capacity to 7.68Tbps with no changes other than new hardware in the cable stations. A small reconfiguration of the network and capacity could be taken as high as 10.24Tbps."

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