TIM Brasil and Xtera deploy Optical 100G Network on aerial cables in North and Centre West Brazil

By illuminating the Manaus to Porto Velho fiber route (1,010 km) alongside the Porto Velho to Cuiaba route (1,645 km), TIM adds more than 2,600 km of high-capacity links into a region that is fast growing and hungry for more bandwidth. Both routes are made of aerial optical cables, exhibiting long spans and high-loss optical fibers. High capacity and long all-optical reach are enabled by Xtera's Wise Raman(TM) technology that offers the industry's most advanced Raman amplification solution, combining optical performance and operational excellence for 100G and 100G+ channel rates.

"The investments in innovation that enabled us to be the first operator to achieve multi terabit/s capacity with minimum regeneration in such challenging routes reinforce TIM's commitment to improving and expanding its networks throughout Brazil," said Cicero Olivieri, Director of Fixed & Transport Network of TIM Brasil. "This benefits not only our operations and customers but the population of the entire region by enabling cost effective broadband services."

"We are extremely happy to have been given this new opportunity by TIM Brasil to once again demonstrate the value of Xtera's 100G solution for high-capacity backbone infrastructure over diverse types of optical cables," said Manuel Andrade, SVP Sales Americas of Xtera. "Our unique advanced, integrated and field-proven Raman optical amplification technology, backed by more than 16 years of R&D and 10+ years of commercial operation, has enabled TIM Brasil to implement a robust network that will support the demand for broadband services for many years to come."

Xtera pioneered Raman optical amplification in backbone networks with its Wise Raman(TM) solution and the installation of Raman amplifiers with a 100 nm optical spectrum in 2004. Xtera was also the first supplier to introduce Soft-Decision Forward Error Correction (SD-FEC) in a commercial 100G network in 2011. In April 2013, Xtera launched the industry's first optical wideband repeater featuring Raman amplification for long-haul subsea cable systems. In December 2013, Xtera introduced the XWDM solution that makes possible a (Capacity x Reach) metric which exceeds, by a factor of six, what is normally achievable by today's 100G optical transport systems that use Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFAs).

For terrestrial backbone networks, the multi-purpose Nu-Wave Optima(TM) optical networking platform delivers unrivaled line capacities of 15 Tbit/s on more than 4,500 km, and 64 Tbit/s on more than 1,500 km over existing fiber infrastructure with no intermediate regeneration. For unrepeatered applications, a capacity of 15 Tbit/s was recently transmitted on 410 km.