The Catalan Government's Center for Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CTTI) has implemented Transmode's TM Series with reconfigurable optical insert/extract multiplexer (ROADM) technology, adding greater flexibility and capacity to its existing network. Five nodes have been deployed in Barcelona and other major cities, enabling the Catalan Government to offer wholesale services to service providers and telecommunications operators.
"We are very pleased with the new Transmode network. In addition to its first-class technological performance, the Transmode solution provides us with the best value for money network design," stated Jordi Bosch, Secretary of Telecommunications and Information Society for the Catalan Government. "Transmode is the only provider that offered us a ROADM-based solution that met our technical requirements and fit within our budget. Since the network went live, we haven't had any installation problems, nor any instances of outages or failures. In fact, the new intelligence incorporated into the Transmode network has helped us locate external problems more quickly and provide our customers with better services."
The new network initially provides the Generalitat with 40 channels, and the potential to easily expand to 80 channels in the future. The main difference between Transmode's WDM solution and the competition lies in its network management tools. These allow the Generalitat to create customer portals that display all its services and allow users to view data related to service level agreement compliance. The network transports Ethernet over WDM using dual 10G Ethernet transponders for 10G Ethernet transport and nine GbE service multiplexers for Gigabit Ethernet transport and aggregation over 10G.
Optical flexibility is growing in importance as network capacity increases, driven by the demand for high-speed broadband capacity from both private and commercial users. The ability to remotely reconfigure optical channels within the network allows the Catalan government to reduce the cost and activation time of services, thereby increasing service speeds, enhancing its competitiveness in the sector, and positively impacting the operator's profits.
"This installation in Catalonia is an excellent example of how the best metropolitan and regional networks need to evolve to support the rapid growth in broadband demand generated by mobile data, Triple Play services, and commercial Ethernet services," stated Björn Andersson, Vice President of Sales at Transmode. "Transmode helped the Catalan government design a flexible network capable of absorbing any new demand and traffic patterns, as well as bringing the high-capacity network to areas that are currently less commercially viable, through the rural broadband stimulus program. This deployment of a dynamic network with all the necessary management tools represents a significant step and shows how Transmode is efficiently addressing the growing ROADM technology segment within the metropolitan optical sector."
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