TekLinks deploys Transmode for Alabama metro-network

TekLinks is an IT solutions provider that provides a range of services including colocation, hosting, storage, virtualization and cloud services across southern Mississippi, Tennessee, northern Alabama and the Gulf coast.

The new optical network built by TekLinks is a three-node, 10G ring network that includes Transmode's recently-announced, high-density and low power Hex OTN Transponder cards. TekLinks chose to build its own DWDM network in Birmingham after evaluating the cost and timescales of buying services from service providers in the area.

John East, Director of Network Operations, said, "We needed to expand the capacity on our fibre network and moving to a DWDM network was the next logical step. We chose to build our own network to maintain control and give us the flexibility and scalability to best serve our customers both for now and into the future.

"Buying in high capacity services from an operator would have been comparatively expensive and given TekLinks very little flexibility. Deploying Transmode's TM-Series has been a very simple and cost effective solution."

Due to the quick delivery times and ease of installation and commissioning procedures of Transmode's TM-Series, the project proceeded rapidly from vendor selection to a live network.
TekLinks has now not only built a high capacity network to connect its own datacentres, but has also been able to build a platform that allows the company to swiftly meet the likely future capacity demands of its customers.

Bjorn Andersson, Transmode's Vice President, Americas, commented, "We are delighted to be announcing another new customer in North America that needed to take advantage of our technology to build a cost effective network. This project shows that our solutions can support all datacenter applications and operators of all sizes can benefit from the economics and simple operations that our solutions provide."