Pacnet to provide 100G Wave Services between APAC and US
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE As part of a strategic move to address the increasingly growing demand for bandwidth throughout the Asia-Pacific region and all over the world, Pacnet has announced the successful deployment of an optical mesh network with 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) technology between Asia and the United States on its EAC Pacific fiber optic cable system integrated with Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching over its Asia-Pacific region’s high-capacity submarine cable systems. Pacnet can now offer its Carrier and Enterprise customers 10Gbps, 40Gbps and 100Gbps services between Asia-Pacific and the U.S. In 2017, global IP traffic is expected to reach 1.4 Zettabytes per year, or 120.6 Exabytes per month, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 per cent from 2012 to 2017. IP traffic in Asia-Pacific will reach 43.4 Exabytes per month by 2017, at a CAGR of 26 per cent. Andy Lumsden, Chief Techno...