With the introduction of the Coriant mTera® Universal Transport Platform (first in Italy), Clouditalia builds upon its strategy of leveraging best-in-class technology innovation to enhance cloud and data connectivity services for Italy's business customers. The mTera® UTP solution significantly advances the flexibility and adaptability of Clouditalia's backbone network with industry-leading features including advanced ROADM capabilities with innovative universal switching and non-blocking grooming of multiple protocols on a single, software-programmable port. The hybrid switching and grooming capability of the mTera® UTP provides a superior solution for cost-efficiently migrating SDH services to OTN or MPLS-TP, while enabling Clouditalia to seamlessly evolve its ROADM-based DWDM network to a service-agnostic architecture. In addition, the mTera® UTP improves utilization of metro and long haul DWDM resources and increases the resiliency of customer traffic with proven fault-tolerant protection and restoration capabilities. With very low power consumption, the compact form factor supports an extremely dense 7 Tbps of universal switching capacity per shelf with up to 12 Tbps of total switching capacity per rack.
"As more and more small, medium, and large enterprises throughout Italy rely on cloud services to support their critical business needs, the underlying broadband infrastructure needs to not only scale as traffic demands increase, but also become more adaptable and reliable," said Marco Iannucci, Chief Executive Officer, Clouditalia. "The Coriant mTera® UTP solution enables us to efficiently scale to multi-terabit levels while bringing more dynamic capabilities to our cloud infrastructure network. This powerful combination will help us enhance the highly tailored cloud and data services we offer our customers."
The mTera® UTP supports seamless interworking with existing transport systems, including theCoriant® hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform, the cornerstone of Clouditalia's coherent 100G fiber optic network, and the Coriant® 7090 Packet Transport Platform, which supports a wide breadth of metro edge services, including E1, SDH, GigE, and lower bit rate Ethernet. Management of the end-to-end Coriant solution is provided by the Coriant® Transport Network Management System (TNMS), a user-friendly management platform that enables Clouditalia to simplify service provisioning and monitoring from the metro edge to the optical core. TNMS helps Clouditalia differentiate its enterprise offerings with fast service activation, while reducing operating costs and accelerating time-to-revenue.
"We're pleased to be a trusted partner to Clouditalia as they redefine cloud services for the Italian market," said Tarcisio Ribeiro, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Services, Coriant. "The Coriant end-to-end solution helps Clouditalia unleash the full potential of its packet optical transport network to better serve its customers and meet increasing demand for flexible network capacity."
