Fiber@Home, a nationwide transmission service provider in Bangladesh, has partnered with Cisco to accelerate the conversion of its network to 400G. The partnership will help the service provider seamlessly deploy an automated transport 5G-ready network across Bangladesh and support increased bandwidth demand from businesses of all sizes. Fiber@Home is using Cisco platforms for this expansion to enhance and optimise the overall customer experience, becoming the first customer in the country to adopt Cisco's Routed Optical Networking technology, said a media statement Thursday. "This new 400G wavelength network will offer a fourfold increase in maximum data transfer speed compared to 100G, enabling us to provide stable critical connectivity to our customers," Moynul Haque Siddiqui, chairman of Fiber@Home, said. Read more: '5G can change the face of industry in Bangladesh' "The Cisco Routed Optical Networking solution streamlines and strengthens our network capacity, providing a superior customer experience while also optimising our capex and opex utilisation." "Service providers like Fibre@Home recognise the value of a network that can be scaled in response to the dynamic needs of consumers and businesses. By converging their IP and optical networks, in addition to greater wavelength utilisation, Fiber@Home will be able to optimise their power consumption, resulting in a much lower carbon impact and streamlining of their hardware as well as leading to a reduction of 50 percent in operational costs," Anand Bhaskar, managing director (service provider business) Cisco India and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, said. "This partnership is a step towards bringing fast, reliable and sustainable internet services to the people of Bangladesh."