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We found something very interesting and thought we’d share it with our Boston area Technology Support Business partners.

Hibernia Atlantic, a network operator and Chinese hardware maker Huawei has just conducted the first 100 Gigabit transmission across the Atlantic. The test was conducted over 5,570 kilometers between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Southport, England. Wow, can you visualize that?

Infinera worked with Pacific Crossing to show off its long-haul undersea 100 Gbps technology under the Pacific ocean in October 2011. (Press release PDF) That subsea trial spanned more than 9,500 kilometers on Pacific Crossing’s PC-1 fiber from California to Japan and was the first and longest successful 100 Gb/s trial performed across the Pacific delivering digital coherent transmission. However, the sub-Atlantic trial could see a faster commercial deployment it seems.

The trial involved Huawei’s latest 100 Gbps single wavelength coherent technology. In addition to performing across distances greater than 5,000 km, the trial has successfully demonstrated long-term, error-free transmission at 100Gbps. Huawei also successfully demonstrated co-propagation of 100 Gbps wavelengths at 50 GHz spacing which enables future upgrades of subsea capacities up to 5 Tbps.

This successful trial means that companies can move forward on their aggressive deployment schedule, including 100 Gbps connections between Halifax and Montreal and between Amsterdam and London in early 2012. Later in the year should have other key routes follow suit. What’s at stake is mass scale deployment of 100 Gbps technology in the long haul networks. It’s been worth waiting for hasn’t it? The possibilities are boundless, so it seems. Are you interested in this technology and the recent progress in subsea Atlantic transmission? We’d like to hear from you about it.

If you would like to read the entire GigaOm article, just click here.