Smartcom provided professional services as part of a significant upgrade with Infinera for Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Consortium (AAE-1), one of the largest consortium cable systems in the world, to boost capacity on the subsea network connecting East Asia to Europe via Egypt.
AAE-1 has proved to be vital infrastructure in the Eurasia corridor, and even more so recently, providing connectivity, diversity, and resilience between European, Asian, and Middle Eastern markets. Based on Infinera’s industry-leading fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4) technology and Instant Bandwidth capability, the Infinera solution enabled AAE-1 to double the capacity on its intercontinental network while reducing total cost of ownership and increasing service agility and network reliability.