European telecommunications vendor ADVA yesterday announced that the Luxembourg Commercial Internet Exchange (LU-CIX) has deployed its FSP 3000 with QuadFlex™ technology to meet increasing data demand from its regional and international partners.
LU-CIX will use the solution to enable high-quality connectivity of up to 400Gbit/s to its national internet exchange backbone interconnecting its points of presence in four major data centres. The scaleability, compact footprint and market-leading energy efficiency of ADVA’s technology were key to LU-CIX’s choice of solution, as was the comprehensive support provided by ADVA and its partner Telindus, a brand of Proximus Luxembourg. Indeed, Telindus played a key role in the project, ensuring that the next-generation technology interworks with LU-CIX’s existing infrastructure for a seamless transition to 400Gbit/s.
Claude Demuth, CEO, LU-CIX Management GIE, commented: “This upgrade is great news for the internet community in Luxembourg and beyond. Recently, we’ve seen astronomical growth in data demand and deploying 400Gbit/s technology in our network is a major part of our response”.
The ADVA FSP 3000 claims to offer deployment flexibility, ensures low first-in costs today and easy scaleability for the future. This will help LU-CIX to continue to maximise its position as a key European peering hub with close proximity to major internet exchanges located in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Paris. Also crucial to LUCIX’s new network are the coherent capabilities of ADVA’s QuadFlex™ line cards, which increase spectrum utilisation so that a single chassis can support multi-Terabit transmissions over long distances without the need for signal regeneration. A winner of Layer123’s Network Transformation Award for Best Energy Efficiency, the ADVA FSP 3000 will also significantly reduce emissions.
