Infonetics Research Names Infinera as Top Optical Transport Vendor
March 31 2014 - 8:00AM
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Infonetics Research Names Infinera as Top Optical Transport Vendor
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 31, 2014) - Infinera (NASDAQ:
INFN), provider of Intelligent Transport Networks™, announced today
that Infonetics Research, an international market research and
consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990, has
ranked Infinera as the top optical vendor in 2013. In an
announcement regarding the report, Infonetics said, "With very high
ratings for technology innovation, reliability, and service and
support, Infinera received the highest overall score for optical
transport equipment."
Infonetics' new Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard
profiles, analyzes and ranks the 10 largest global vendors of
optical transport equipment. In the report, Infinera emerges as the
number one ranking optical transport equipment provider in
2013.
Vendors were evaluated based on seven metrics including market
share, market share momentum, financial stability, packet-optical
intensity, technology innovation, product reliability, and service
and support.
"The market for optical transport equipment is $12B annually,
nearly as large as the market for service provider routers and
switches. As the highest scoring company in the Optical Vendor
Leadership Scorecard, Infinera emerges as top optical vendor in
2013," said Andrew Schmitt, Principal Analyst, Optical, Infonetics
Research. "When customers are asked what Infinera does well they
mention ease of operation, ease of provisioning, and high
reliability."
"The Infonetics Optical Vendor Scorecard shows that Infinera's
focus on building Intelligent Transport Networks is resonating with
global network operators," said Tom Fallon, Infinera CEO. "In 2013,
we grew our market share by enabling service providers to use time
as a competitive weapon to deploy multi-terabit networks. We
see 2013 as the beginning of once in a decade transition to 100G
and beyond in core networks, and we are honored to see our focus on
scale, automation and efficiency reflected in the outstanding
results for Infinera in the Infonetics scorecard."
About Infinera Infinera provides Intelligent Transport Networks
to help carriers exploit the increasing demand for cloud-based
services and data center connectivity as they advance into the
Terabit Era. Infinera is unique in its use of breakthrough
semiconductor technology to deliver large scale Photonic Integrated
Circuit (PICs) and the application of PICs to vertically integrated
optical networking solutions that deliver the industry's only
commercially available 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels.
Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solutions include the DTN-X,
DTN and ATN platforms. Find more at www.infinera.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Actual
results may vary materially from these expectations as a result of
various risks and uncertainties. Information about these risks and
uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties that affect our
business, is contained in the risk factors section and other
sections of our annual report on Form 10-K filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on February 21, 2014, as well as
any subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the
SEC. These reports are available on our website at
www.infinera.com and the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Infinera
assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update
any such forward-looking statements.
Contacts: Infinera Media: Anna Vue Tel. +1 (916)
595-8157 avue@infinera.com Infinera Investors: Leigh Salvo
Tel. +1 (408) 543-8139 lsalvo@infinera.com
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