VimpelCom selects Ciena and ADV Consulting

Ciena Corporation has announced that VimpelCom has deployed Ciena's 100G coherent optical networking technology in its backbone network. Equipped with Wavelogic optical processors and stretching more than 580 kilometers on a critical route in central Russia, the high-speed link has been put in place to help VimpelCom cope with the increased bandwidth requirements that the operator is experiencing in its network core.

Alexey Sapunov, Transport Network Director, OJCS VimpelCom said, "As our customers have over the last few years become increasingly sophisticated in their use of devices and services, the traffic on our backbone network has grown exponentially. As a service provider in the leading edge of technology adoption, we are committed to ensuring that we have the latest technology at our disposal to address our needs, which has led us to deploying Ciena's market-leading 100G solution. The ease with which the network extension was performed not only showed that any of our bandwidth constraint issues can be solved in an easy and truly non-invasive manner, but also proved that our infrastructure can scale as and when we need it to, in order to meet our customers' future demands."

Sergei Fishkin, Regional Managing Director, Russia, CIS & Baltics, Ciena said, "The claim of leadership in the deployment of a technology requires that the differentiating quality solves a tangible business challenge. VimpelCom's 100G network is, to our knowledge, the first long-haul 100G network deployed in the Russian Federation - but much more importantly, it helps the operator effectively address the very real issue of capacity demand, which in today’s era of sharp rises in broadband services many operators have become acutely aware of."