Enables wholesale services on dedicated, resilient, and diverse pathways for international traffic
Vodafone New Zealand has completed a six-month project to upgrade Vodafone NZ’s entire international optical network is complete, enabling a dedicated, resilient and diverse set of internet pathways upon which international data can be transferred at millisecond speed.
This means Vodafone NZ is now the only operator in New Zealand offering exclusive-use optical capacity across all three international fibre optic cables – Tasman Global Access (TGA), Southern Cross and Hawaiki – providing a service that large organisations are increasingly using to enable dedicated, high speed and high capacity data transfer between countries.
Andrew McDonald, head of wholesale at Vodafone NZ said data transfer is increasingly important in today’s inter-connected world, and organisations like banks and government agencies need to know their data is transferred via reliable and resilient pathways. New Zealanders are consuming around 40 per cent more data every year and so businesses need to plan for future growth in applications.
“This rebuild of our international optical network offers a step-change in how we can manage internet traffic, connecting all three major submarine cables linking New Zealand with Australia, the South Pacific and North America,” he said.
“This is important for applications like video calling, where enterprises need to transmit video from thousands of online conference calls between locations across New Zealand and Sydney in millisecond speed. No one likes lags or buffering delays, and this new technology increases capacity on our international fibre optic technology.”
Vodafone and Ciena worked closely to complete the network upgrade using the 6500 Converged Packet Optical platform.
