redIT expands Coriant edge-to-core solution

"Our customers face unprecedented challenges in today's fast-paced and cloud-centric era of IT communications, and we are helping them meet these challenges head on with seamless and secure connectivity solutions optimized for their dynamic business needs," said Benjamín Martínez, redIT Connectivity Director. "Our high-capacity transport infrastructure plays a critical role in our ability to deliver these solutions, and Coriant's proven technology is helping us strengthen our customer value proposition with unmatched networking reliability, agility, and scalability."

redIT, a KIO Networks Group company, now has infrastructure that delivers more than 3,000 kilometers of metropolitan optical fiber throughout Mexico and the United States. Additionally, redIT provides 5,000 kilometers of extended network coverage and 2,900 lit buildings in major cities. Recognized as a market-leading ROADM solution for metropolitan and regional networks, the 7100 Nano supports the flexible and efficient transmission of high-speed bandwidth services across redIT's fiber optic infrastructure. Key platform features such as ease of scalability, support for diverse protocols and service interfaces, low latency transport, and high-availability mesh- and ring-based restoration and protection capabilities provide the resilient foundation underlying the mission-critical data center interconnect redIT delivers to KIO Networks and redIT's on-demand business connectivity services.

"Our unwavering focus remains on helping our customers maximize the value of their transport infrastructure to create true service differentiation," said Alberto Barriento, Regional Vice President, Latin America, Coriant. "We have worked closely with redIT to understand their unique needs and develop a customized solution directly aligned to their network architecture and operational requirements, including fast provisioning of services. The result is a powerful solution that fuses product and technology innovation with access to core operational simplicity."

In addition to the 7100 Nano Packet Optical Transport Platform, which provides seamless scalability to 100G, the end-to-end Coriant solution for redIT includes the Coriant® 8600 Smart Router Series and the Coriant® 6300 Managed MSPP/Transport Platform. At the edge of the network, the 6300 platform supports a broad range of legacy low speed TDM and packet services, while the scalable 8600 series of IP/MPLS edge routers supports the flexible and efficient aggregation and transport of carrier-class Gigabit Ethernet and 10 GbE services.