Bharti Airtel is deploying Ciena's coherent optical and intelligent software platforms to build one of the World's Largest Photonic Control Plane networks in India. The company’s new backbone network will serve the exploding demand for high speed data services. It will also enable super-fast broadband experiences over 4G/5G/FTTH architectures, making the most efficient use of available fiber resources. The deployment is part of Project Leap - Airtel's network transformation program and will also enable a network that can quickly respond to simultaneous faults by re-computing and re-routing traffic based on available network resources.
The company’s new backbone architecture creates a solid foundation that can cut across technology generations to seamlessly work with data rates of 400Gbps and higher to create a future proof scalable network. In addition, the architecture offers lower latency and software-controlled connectivity for Cloud infrastructure, faster transformation to virtualized platforms, and 5G readiness - essential to a world of connected devices and things.
Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations across Asia and Africa.
