Nokia's 1830 Photonic Service Interconnect – Modular (PSI-M) solution was used to activate the trial in Riyadh on a live network.

Recently, Nokia and stc announced the successful completion of the first trial of a 1-Terabit high-capacity channel in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.

Nokia's 1830 Photonic Service Interconnect – Modular (PSI-M) solution was used to activate the trial in Riyadh on a live network, said the company in a media release.

When Nokia's PSI-M is commercially launched, it will allow stc to continue to expand network capacity and support new high-bandwidth services on a reliable network foundation. As part of the trial, Nokia PSI-M was directly installed in stc’s data center rack and used AC power supply.

In addition to being compact and high capacity, Nokia's 1830 PSI-M is a modular optical networking platform that has been optimized for Data Center Interconnect (DCI) applications over metro-regional and long-distance networks.

Specifically, it is designed to cope with the growth for DCI applications and the need to transfer new high-bandwidth services such as 400GbE and 800GbE from the most recent generation of routers.

The stc VP for infrastructure Badr Al-Lhieb said: "We are thrilled that this crucial trial has been completed successfully. We are devoted to providing our customers with the best possible network experience, he added.

Furthermore, he stated that Nokia's industry-leading solutions will help address the current capacity requirements and rapidly scale as the requirement grows while keeping the costs under control.

Data consumption by both consumers and businesses is pushing the network capacity, according to the head of Nokia's stc Customer Business Team, Khalid Hussain.

In addition, the trial effectively demonstrates how service providers, such as stc, can benefit from 1830 PSI-M in order to quickly scale and increase the network capacity limit while utilizing existing infrastructure without having to use extra investment capital.