You or your customers have very specific requirements when it comes to data connectivity: huge bandwidth, ultra-low latency, optimum quality of service, worldwide coverage mixed with local capillarity and maximum security. In order to handle the increasing volume of data exchanged and to avoid any traffic disruptions, Orange has invested in these new subsea transatlantic mega cables with a total capacity of over 100 Tbits/s.
The award-winning Dunant cable led by Google in partnership with Orange is an innovative unique “hybrid” POP to MULTIPOP “terrestrial-subsea” connectivity approach that revolutionizes transatlantic data and traffic exchanges. Thanks to Orange expertise and innovation, one of Orange’s fiber pairs on Dunant was actually designed to “land” in Paris, as opposed to terminating the optical line in the coastal cable landing station in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez.
Moreover, the landing of the new AMITIE cable in France, near Bordeaux, is destined to become an international digital hub of vital importance. With completely different paths on sea and land and two distinct landing points, avoiding a Single Point of Failure, the new AMITIE cable will make these routes more secure by the end of 2022.
AMITIE and Dunant put Orange at the heart of the European platform used by various international networks to link to America as well as Africa and Asia. Through the Orange network architecture, Dunant offers a direct link from Ashburn to any POP in Europe: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and beyond. This groundbreaking “open cable” architecture proposes secure, fully redundant, enhanced granularity on this vital transatlantic link. It also offers an optimized delivery time thanks to the latest WDM technology. You can choose service agreements tailored to your needs from standard bandwidth to specific spectrum offers to fiber. It also sets new standards for energy savings, in line with Orange’s commitment to a greener future.
The traffic between Europe and North America doubles every two years. As it emerges, these cables will be the cornerstone to accommodate this future growth on different networks, guaranteeing continuous and reliable traffic. They are also designed to evolve at the same pace as future generations of optical transmission technologies and to maintain a high level of performance for at least the next 20 years.
Orange won the "Project of the Year - Subsea” award for the Dunant cable. This achievement is the result of our commitment to bring the market extensive innovative solutions in the field of connectivity and wholesale solutions.
