Xteras Company Overview

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Company
Overview
Innovative supplier of long-haul optical transmission infrastructure on
submarine, terrestrial and aerial optical cables
Patent-protected fundamental technology (All-Raman optical amplification)
Unique solution portfolio for unified networks and seamless long-haul DCI
Highest [Capacity x Reach] metric on any fiber type/vintage
Wide ecosystem for global solutions

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Maximizing Network Capacity, Reach

And Value Worldwide

Headquarter
R&D centers
Customer support
Offices
Manufacturing
Xteras deployments
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Submarine and Terrestrial Customer Base

Submarine and Long-Haul Customer Base

Columbus III
Consortium
Americas I & Columbus 2
Consortia

ECFS Consortium

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CBUS Consortium

Xteras Deployments

Xteras Deployments

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Market segments

Technology Toolkit for Global Networks

Terrestrial (+ OPGW)
Backbone
+
Backhaul

Submarine
Unrepeatered

Regional

Long haul

10G 20G 40G 100G 100G+

Technologies for unified land/subsea backbones

Technologies for unified land/subsea backbones

Nu-Wave OptimaTM

Products

WDM transmission equipment

OTN switch
Branching unit

Technology toolkit

Subsea repeater

Optical
amplification

Optical
switching

Line
monitoring

Electrical
switching

Modulation
formats

Transmission
modeling

IP Portfolio (October 2014)

113 US patents granted

13 US patents pending
49 foreign patents granted
32 foreign patents pending

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Key Technologies for Optical Transport

Wise RamanTM for
Wide Spectrum

XWDM

3 spectrum
2 reach
6 [Capacity x Reach] metric
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Submarine and Terrestrial Customer Base

Wise RamanTM for Long-Haul

Networks

Wise RamanTM solution covers all aspects of optical networks relying on

Raman amplification:

Modeling
Photonics
Link engineering
Network design
Hardware
Firmware
Software
Network management

Raman amplifier controller is key, and

quite different from EDFA controller.

Not simply the addition

of third-party Raman
pump modules to
EDFA amplifiers that
were designed for
stand-alone usage!
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Wise RamanTM
Submarine and Terrestrial Customer Base
Unrepeatered
Reach]
Metric
[Capacity [Capacity
Reach]
in Unrepeatered

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Links

Wise RamanTM
Submarine and Terrestrial Customer Base
Unrepeatered
[Capacity
Reach] Metric
Unrepeatered
Technologies

Also For Terrestrial Networks

Power Grids: Infrastructure Suitable

for Optical Networks

OPGW cable between transmission

towers

Not a telco network:

Long distances between intermediate
ODF sites
Telecom sites maybe off the power grid
Very long spans

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Trials With State Grid of China

World leading unrepeatered

transmission results:
100G over 627 km / 100 dB
10G over 645 km / 104 dB

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Wise RamanTM
Submarine and Terrestrial Customer Base
[Capacity
Unrepeatered
Reach]
[Capacity
Metric
Reach]
in in
Terrestrial
MetricNetworks
[Capacity
Reach]
Terrestrial
Networks

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Optical Repeater for

Subsea Cable
Systems Launched at
Innovations:
Mechanical
Electrical
Optical

Marine grade titanium. Compact, light and strong.

Improved powering enabling Raman amplification.
Modular optical design.
Optical bandwidth increased by 50%.
Manufacturability Flexible and simplified manufacturing process.

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Repeater Sea Trial

Burial in Shallow Waters

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Repeater Deployment

First Raman Repeater in Commercial Service

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1,500 km Subsea Cable System

Repeater Loading

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1,500 km Subsea Cable System

Cable Loading

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Turnkey
Solutions

Upgrades, redeployments, and new builds

Cost effective by using optimized components,
technologies, and partners
Supporting projects from start to finish
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Xteras Footprint in the Caribbean Area

Xteras cable systems
Alonso de Ojeda
Americas-I North
Antillas 1
ARCOS
Bahamas 2
CBUS
CJFS
Columbus 2b
Columbus-III
Columbus Networks
East West
ECFS
GlobeNet

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AT&T

GOKI (Cable Redeployment + New Cable)

Incheon
Fukuoka

Okinawa

Guam
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US Department of Defense

New 1,500 km Subsea Cables System

Naval Base

Solving the digital divide for remote

and/or small communities!
Long repeater spacing

Naval Base

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Gulf Bridge International

Network Overview

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Gulf Bridge International

Subsea Link + Backhauls
Milan

Same platform for

Submarine route
Backhaul networks in Italy and Egypt

Span protection for backhaul networks

First 100G repeatered subsea system in
commercial service
Mazara del Vallo

8,000 km of 100G optical routes

Alexandria
Working terrestrial route
Protection terrestrial route
Submarine cable system

Zafarana
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MainOne

100G Upgrade
7,000 km subsea cable system

Seixal

Accra

Lagos

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The Worlds Widest 100G Deployment

CFE Telecom (Mexico)

Differentiation provided by Raman

optical amplification technology:
Offering both capacity and reach
Bridging long spans with no need
to build new sites
Up to 2,50012km all-optical link
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Network
10 simpler and faster to
16
8 and operate
build
6

Junction node:
Based on
Reconfigurable
Optical Add Drop
Multiplexer
(ROADM)

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22,000
km
20

4
2

22
0

Tb/s

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Hotel node

Junction node
In-line amplifier site
Glass-thru site
NMS/DCN site
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Long Links, Long Spans in Amazon

OPGW Cables TIM Brasil (Brazil)

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Long Links, Long Spans in Amazon

TIM Brasil (Brazil)

Amazonas Project: 2,266 km network

(1,835 km OPGW cable
infrastructure)
Manaus

Macap

Jurupari

1,010 km
link

Belem
Gopa

Fortaleza

Tucuru

Puerto Velho

1,161 km
link

1,645 km
link

White and red links

Salvador
Cuiab

G.652 / G.653
Aerial / buried
Spans up to 278 km
65% > 100 km
20% > 200 km

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Long Links, Long Spans in Amazon

TIM Brasil (Brazil)

+
Towers are about
295m tall (about the
height of the Eiffel
tower) in order to
cross the 2.5 km
wide Amazon river!

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Why Xtera?
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Global and innovative offer for

highest capacity and reach in
terrestrial/submarine space

Unparalleled [Reach x Capacity]

28 32 36

40

20
16

44
48

12
8
4

52
56
60

Unique solution to future proof

existing fiber assets for 100G/100G+

Tbit/s

64

Optimization of the installed optical

cable infrastructure
Fully validated technology worldwide
Deployment program robustness with
demonstrated turnkey capabilities
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Innovative Supplier Of
Long-Haul Optical
Transmission Infrastructure
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