(CercleFinance.com) – Nokia and Orange announced on Wednesday that they had reached a speed of 800Gbps on the Dunant transatlantic cable, which connects France and the United States over a distance of some 6,600 km.
This test – conducted in real ‘live’ conditions using Nokia’s new generation optical and photonic technologies – validated Orange’s ability to increase the power of its network.
The telecoms operator says it is able to offer transmission services of up to 800GE, while data traffic is expected to explode on the transatlantic link.
The Europe-United States axis is in fact considered one of the most important underwater routes in the world, with a need for connectivity that doubles every two years.
For comparison, the capacity of the Dunant system reached 400G in 2021.
Dunant, the first submarine cable to connect the United States to France in more than 15 years, starts in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, in Vendée, and ends its course on the other side of the Atlantic in Virginia Beach.
From the Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez landing station, Orange then deploys its terrestrial optical fiber to route its traffic to large data centers in the Paris region, while serving the rest of Europe and major international sites.
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