Infinera Validates Intelligent Transport Network Portfolio over Lumentum White Box Optical Line System
August 17 2016 - 8:00AM
Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and
Lumentum Holdings Inc. (Lumentum), a provider of innovative
photonic products for cloud and networking applications, have
successfully validated Infinera’s portfolio of dense wavelength
division multiplexing (DWDM) platforms over Lumentum’s white box
optical line system. Infinera now offers customers an open optical
networking solution validated by interoperability testing between
Lumentum’s white box optical line system and Infinera’s Intelligent
Transport Networks.
The joint solution supports an ecosystem that enables open
networks for data center interconnect (DCI) and metro/edge WDM
transport. This announcement by Infinera and Lumentum marks the
first multi-vendor driven demonstration of, and commitment to
supporting, an open, interoperable and agile approach to the
construction of transport networks. The combined power of
Infinera's photonic integrated circuit (PIC) based platforms and
Lumentum's white box line system offers network operators a
scalable, programmable, and automated solution for provisioning
bandwidth using open standardized interfaces.
Infinera and Lumentum are collaborating on open packet optical
transport in the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an industry
initiative co-founded by Facebook. TIP consists of multiple
operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators, and others
collaborating to develop new technologies and approaches to deploy
the telecom network infrastructure.
“By validating the industry’s first white box open line system
interoperability with Lumentum, Infinera has demonstrated our
commitment to delivering the innovative and open optical solutions
that our customers need,” said Tom Fallon, Infinera CEO.
“Infinera’s leadership in technology innovation with large-scale
photonic integration is changing telecom networks. This
announcement is yet another step in the path to delivering on our
vision of enabling an infinite pool of intelligent bandwidth that
the next communications infrastructure is built upon.”
“Lumentum’s award-winning optical white boxes are designed for
simplicity and scalability, with open interfaces to enable Software
Defined Networking (SDN),” said Alan Lowe, Lumentum CEO. “The
demonstration of successful interoperability with Infinera
validates the open system approach that should deliver the
simplicity and service innovation many network operators
desire.”
The extensive interoperability testing included Infinera's XTM
Series, Cloud Xpress Family and DTN-X Family (including XTC and XT
Series) platforms. In addition, the companies successfully
conducted interoperability testing of Infinera’s next generation
Infinite Capacity Engine pilot hardware. The Infinera platforms
interoperated with the Lumentum white box open line system
including the 20 port Transport ROADM. The test cases covered
point-to-point metro fiber links carrying multiple modulations
including QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying), 8QAM (quadrature
amplitude modulation) and 16QAM with PIC based super-channels over
the Lumentum open line system. The test was able to fill the fiber
to full capacity at QPSK, 8QAM and 16QAM data rates via 19
super-channels injected into a single rack unit 20 port ROADM. A
fully loaded solution achieves up to 24 terabits of fiber capacity
using the Infinite Capacity Engine at 16QAM. The testing
successfully validated standard optical parameters including
optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) for seamless performance over
metro distances.
About LumentumLumentum (NASDAQ:LITE) is a
market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic
products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers
worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of
virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center
network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing
techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D
sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in Milpitas,
California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices
worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com.
About InfineraInfinera (NASDAQ:INFN) provides
Intelligent Transport Networks, enabling carriers, cloud operators,
governments and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate
service innovation and simplify optical network operations.
Infinera’s end-to-end packet-optical portfolio is designed for
long-haul, subsea, data center interconnect and metro applications.
Infinera’s unique large scale photonic integrated circuits enable
innovative optical networking solutions for the most demanding
networks. To learn more about Infinera visit www.infinera.com,
follow us on Twitter @Infinera and read our latest blog posts at
blog.infinera.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to the technical and economic benefits
of deploying Infinera products now and in the future. These
statements are not guarantees of results and should not be
considered as an indication of future activity or future
performance. 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 Infinera’s business, is contained in
the risk factors section and other sections of Infinera’s Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 25, 2016 as filed
with the SEC on August 2, 2016, as well subsequent reports filed
with or furnished to the SEC. These reports are available on
Infinera’s 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:
Media for Infinera:
Anna Vue
Tel. +1 (916) 595-8157
avue@infinera.com
Media for Lumentum:
Greg Kaufman
Tel +1 (408) 546-4235
media@lumentum.com
Investors for Infinera:
Jeff Hustis
Tel: + 1 (408) 213-7150
jhustis@infinera.com
Investors for Lumentum:
Chris Coldren
Tel +1 (408) 404-0606
investor.relations@lumentum.com
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