Ciena and Mobilyhave activated a commercial 100 Gbps network in the Middle East.
This regional first, deployed within the Riyadh metropolitan area, is an extension of Mobily’s nationwide network.
Mobily’s new 100G capabilities give the operator the ability to quickly and easily add network capacity in the metropolitan area of Riyadh.
The deployment will allow for a total throughput of 8.8 Terabits of data per second on Mobily’s network, carried over 88 optical channels on a single strand of optical fiber.