Quintillion is deploying Ciena Corporation's 8700 Packetwave Platform to support the first phase of its 15,000-kilometer intercontinental subsea fiber system that is planned to connect Europe and Asia by way of the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. With power and space limitations in the North American Arctic, the compact size and low power consumption benefits of the 8700 efficiently provides a scalable, secure and reliable solution. Deploying Ciena’s carrier Ethernet MEF 2.0 certified 8700 powered with WaveLogic coherent optics, will give Quintillion the foundation for a critical, low-latency and diverse Asia-Europe architecture, along with an alternate path for terrestrial offload of data to the U.S. mainland for its wholesale customers. Additionally, Quintillion’s Alaska service provider customers will be able to leverage the scalable, reliable and low-latency connectivity to improve service delivery to end-users.; Quintillion is also utilizing Ciena’s PinPoint Advanced Fiber Analytics and SLA Portal. These advanced software capabilities will use the data captured by Ciena’s unified management software, which provides highly customizable network monitoring to improve network reliability and add protection and quality assurance for end users.