Internet Solutions First to Deploy 500G Super-Channels in South Africa With Infinera Intelligent Transport Network(TM)
April 02 2014 - 5:00AM
Marketwired
Internet Solutions First to Deploy 500G Super-Channels in South
Africa With Infinera Intelligent Transport Network(TM)
SUNNYVALE, CA and BRYANSTON, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwired - Apr 2,
2014) - Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), provider of Intelligent Transport
Networks, and Internet Solutions, a leading pan-African
telecommunications provider, announced today the deployment of the
Infinera DTN-X platform across the company's South African long
distance network. The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network
solution, featuring the DTN-X packet optical transport networking
platform, enables Internet Solutions to differentiate its
services, and manage costs as they scale their network.
Internet Solutions, a division of Dimension Data and part of the
NTT group, provides telecommunications services to public and
private sector companies across South Africa and serves more than
80% of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Using
the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution, Internet
Solutions can now offer 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet services to
its clients across the long distance fibres it manages across South
Africa with short lead times, leading prices and excellent
reliability.
Internet Solutions' clients will benefit from its newly enhanced
transport network through faster provisioning of bandwidth, as well
as quicker fault resolution timeframes, as a result of Internet
Solutions now having complete control of the network, end to end.
This networking solution delivers the industry's only commercially
available 500 gigabit per second (Gb/s) FlexCoherent super-channels
based on Infinera's widely deployed photonic integrated circuits
and is a first for South Africa and the African continent.
The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution provides
Internet Solutions with a system integrating dense wavelength
division multiplexing optical transmission and five terabit per
second non-blocking OTN switching in a single platform. Infinera's
intelligent software combined with this converged platform
automates manual operations to lower operational costs and enable
faster service delivery. The Infinera DTN-X is designed to scale
without compromise to enable future upgrades to terabit
super-channels and Terabit Ethernet.
"The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution provides us
with a cutting edge optical transport solution, allowing us to
offer the highest lit capacity in a South African backbone," said
Prenesh Padayachee, CTO at Internet Solutions. "Internet Solutions
is at the forefront of utilising the latest technology that will
ensure reliable and rapid service delivery to our clients and it is
critical that our vendors are able to deliver the latest and most
cutting edge technology. Infinera has delivered this through their
intelligent transport network system."
"Internet Solutions' selection of an Infinera Intelligent
Transport Network solution underscores the value of the Intelligent
Transport Network for service providers around the world," said
Chris Champion, senior vice president, EMEA sales. "Deploying the
first 500 Gb/s super-channels across South Africa with Internet
Solutions significantly increases the capacity available to
business and consumers in the region."
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.
About Internet Solutions Internet Solutions is a pan-African
communications services provider of IP-based connectivity,
communication, data centre and carrier services. The company is
Southern Africa's most established and experienced Internet Service
Provider. Since 1993 Internet Solutions has been providing
innovative end-to-end connectivity solutions and related services
across the African continent. Delivering services across the
African market and for African clients into the global market, IS
provides services to large public and private sector organisations,
medium sized organisations, across the African continent and to
African clients into the global market. Internet Solutions is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data, part of the NTT
Group.
This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, among other things, statements relating to Infinera
product capabilities, advantages, and the current and planned
future functionality including: that the Intelligent Transport
Network enables customers to differentiate their services, protect
their investment and manage cost as they scale their network; that
Infinera's platform automates manual operations to lower
operational costs and enable faster service delivery; that the
DTN-X is designed to scale without compromise to enable future
upgrades to terabit super-channels and Terabit Ethernet and that
deploying the first 500 Gb/s super-channels across South Africa
with Internet Solutions significantly increases the capacity
available to business and consumers in the region. These forward
looking statements are based on our current expectations. 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 Internet Solutions Media:
Michelle Atkins Michelle.Atkins@is.co.z Infinera
Investors: Leigh Salvo Tel. +1 (408) 543-8139
lsalvo@infinera.com
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