INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
Kalaam Telecom deploys Ciena
WaveLogic Coherent Optics
The KNOT cable system is powered by
Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical platform
equipped with WaveLogic coherent
technology, to offer flexible bandwidth
capacities. The whole infrastructure is
managed by the state-of-the-art microservices
based Manage, Control and Plan
(MCP) SDN domain controller using open
APIs, to provide 10G, 100G, 200G services
and beyond over an Optical Transport
Network (OTN).
Kalaam Telecom deploys Ciena
WaveLogic Coherent Optics
to support the launch of the
Kalaam Network Optical
Transit (KNOT) Cable System.
Kalaam Telecom Group, a leading
managed solutions provider
for businesses across GCC and
international markets, has announced
the launch of Kalaam Network Optical
Transit (KNOT), a new fibre-optic terrestrial
international cable system that enhances
regional and international connectivity in
Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The KNOT terrestrial Fibre-optic cable system
will span over 1,400km, providing capacity
of 12.8 Terabits per second (Tbps) and
beyond with lowest latency connectivity to
the MENA region. Given the cable is carried
over an optical ground wire associated with
a regional high-tension electricity network
(GCCIA), it reduces the risk of cable cuts
significantly, as is evident from the high
availability of the GCCIA network over the
past five years.
Veer Passi, Group CEO of Kalaam and
Tawasul Telecom, said: “Kalaam chose to
invest in this multi-million-dollar network
Jamie Jefferies, Vice President and General
Manager, EMEA at Ciena
expansion project to sustain the evergrowing
demand for data connectivity
and business applications to and from the
MENA region. This new state-of-the-art,
upgradeable optical transport network
is fully owned and operated by Kalaam
Telecom Group.
“With the launch of KNOT, an open cable
system, Kalaam will continue its legacy of
being an innovative and disruptive solution
provider, which aims to make connectivity
in the MENA region more competitive. This
will provide a highly scalable alternative
to carriers, CDNs, OTTs, cloud providers,
data centres and enterprises to benefit
from innovative solutions and enhanced
communications experience.”
Jamie Jefferies, Vice President and
General Manager, EMEA at Ciena, said:
“Working together with Kalaam Telecom,
we will be building a world-class networking
infrastructure, based on our WaveLogic
coherent technology, that can
dynamically scale and adapt to
changing customer expectations and
unpredictable traffic requirements.”
The new cable system provides route
diversity across the Middle East by
connecting our meshed transmission
network across 12 countries, homing
16 Points of Presence (PoP) and further
connecting the MENA region as a gateway
through our POPs in Europe and Asia. The
cable will go live in Q4–2020. •
KALAAM CHOSE
TO INVEST IN THIS
MULTI-MILLION-
DOLLAR NETWORK
EXPANSION
PROJECT TO
SUSTAIN THE
EVER-GROWING
DEMAND FOR DATA
CONNECTIVITY.
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