This new terrestrial cable allows Orange to open up unique access between Asia, the Middle-East and West Africa, offering improved service, redundancy and security.
This new interconnection links existing submarine cable routes from Asia, the Middle East and West Africa. On the Penmarch side, CHLS SMW3 and ACE are linked to Marseille on CHLS SMW4 Saint-Mauront, CHLS IMEWE Bonneveine, and Interxion’s Data Centre MRS1.
Forecasts for bandwidth growth 2017 – 2023 predict a 10x increase in volume between these regions and with this offer Orange interconnects 15 submarine cables in order to stay ahead of the demand.
This new interconnection links existing submarine cable routes from Asia/Middle East and West Africa. On the Penmarch side, CHLS SMW3 and ACE are linked to Marseille on CHLS SMW4 Saint-Mauront, CHLS IMEWE Bonneveine, and Interxion’s Data Center MRS1.
Commercialised in capacities from STM1 to 10G, the offer comes in protected or unprotected versions, which can be leased or acquired as IRU.
Three new routes will become available between Marseille and Penmarch. The first is already operational with a direct terrestrial connection between the two cities. The other two routes – scheduled to be in service before the end of 2018 – will bring redundancy to the Orange offer. Each route is between 1600km – 1700 km in length, offering comparable RTDs of 18ms.
“This unique service is being added to the range of Orange solutions already available in Marseille to facilitate connections in regions where data growth is increasing significantly,” said Pierre-Louis de Guillebon, CEO of Orange International Carriers. “This is a fully Orange owned route, which will soon be automated, and it means that Orange can now offer a secure ‘all-inclusive’ solution by way of configuration, housing and operations.”
