Centerpoint extends FLAG Telecom's trans-oceanic network to New York, London, and Paris - International - Brief Article

Fiber Optics Business, Jan 15, 2002

Centerpoint Broadband Technologies announced that it has deployed and integrated its Celerity CP 3200 (formerly the Zaffire Z3000) DWDM equipment in several FLAG Telecom metropolitan area networks in North America and Europe.

The Celerity CP 3200 provides a network backbone that carries high-speed data traffic between FLAG Telecom's New York, London, and Paris PoPs as part of its city-to-city transoceanic network, FLAG Atlantic-1 (FA-1). The Celerity CP 3200 extends FLAG Telecom's 10 Gigabit-based DWDM networks and services to these metro areas, bringing IP wavelength and other services closer to end customers.

Centerpoint's Celerity CP 3200 provides a backbone that extends transoceanic 10 Gigabit-based DWDM networks and services to metropolitan areas. In addition, the Celerity CP 3200 supports a variety of traffic for FLAG Telecom's customers, including IP, SDH/SONET, along with the ability to overcome bandwidth overload by providing a ring of 10 Gigabit wavelength services.

The Celerity CP 3200 was built to fit the needs of metro core and regional networks, from single wavelength flexibility at the edge of the network to 64 wavelengths of OC-192/STM-64 for regional transport. Features including the digital wrapper technology allow improved span distance and performance monitoring for all channels.

Installation began in New York, followed by London and Paris with optical fiber connecting the sites. End-to-end testing of the system was completed shortly before the network began carrying live data traffic for FLAG Telecom in November 2001.