WiredInUSA June 2016

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Georgian upgrade

Online’s confidence in TE SubCom,” said Aaron Stucki, president, TE SubCom. “We look forward to continuing our support of this essential cable route by providing state-of-the-art technology that enables Caucasus Online to bring high-volume capacity to its customers.” “Our system has proven vital to achieving connectivity throughout the Caucasus region, and a network upgrade will only improve our service offerings,” said Nikolai Tchiaureli, CEO, Caucasus Online. “TE SubCom’s familiarity with the system will bring with it a seamless capacity increase, and we’re pleased to continue our longtime collaboration with them.”

TE Georgian telecommunications provider Caucasus Online have upgraded the 1,200km Caucasus undersea cable system. In service since 2008, the Caucasus system was designed, manufactured and installed by TE SubCom. The system provides high bandwidth connectivity between Poti, Georgia and Balchik, Bulgaria, serving Georgian markets by providing direct access to western Europe. Utilizing TE SubCom’s 100Gb/s coherent transmission technology, the system can now support over 9Tb/s, over seven times the initial design capacity. The recent upgrade will increase lit capacity to 780Gb/s. “As the project supplier for both the full system construction and previous upgrades, we greatly value Caucasus SubCom and

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