Innovation on Fast Forward: Infinera Unveils New Infinite Capacity Engine for Data Center Interconnect and Fiber-Deep Archite...
March 12 2018 - 8:00AM
Infinera, the leading provider of Intelligent Transport Networks,
unveiled ICE5, the industry’s first 2.4 terabits per second (Tb/s)
optical engine and the latest addition to the company’s family of
Infinite Capacity Engines.
ICE5 is targeted at internet content providers (ICPs) scaling
connections between data centers and communications service
providers (CSPs) planning fiber-deep architectures including
distributed access architecture (DAA) and 5G mobile backhaul.
Optical engines play a key role in maximizing both the technical
and economic performance of optical network systems. At Infinera,
the pace of optical engine innovation is on fast forward, building
on the success of ICE4 in metro, long-haul and subsea applications,
to introduce ICE5 and demonstrate an increasing cadence toward
ICE6.
Gartner’s forecast for cloud computing anticipates a compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent through 2020 and the
Ericsson Mobility Report expects total mobile data traffic to rise
at a CAGR of 42 percent through 2022, accelerating demand for
optical network capacity at ICPs and CSPs worldwide.
ICE5 builds on the success of ICE4 to lead the industry in
optical performance and economics by integrating Infinera’s fifth
generation photonic integrated circuit with a FlexCoherent digital
signal processor (DSP) and fine-grain software control to deliver
100 to 600 gigabits per second per wavelength in the industry’s
first 2.4 Tb/s optical engine. ICE5 unlocks unprecedented capacity,
reach, spectral and power efficiency, designed for over 40 Tb/s on
a single fiber within a fraction of a data center rack, increasing
capacity up to 65 percent over currently deployed networks while
reducing power by 60 percent.
Infinera Instant Network enables software automation of
ICE-based platforms, allowing customers to pay for capacity as they
need it, matching expense to revenue, increasing network agility
and lowering total cost of ownership. More than 70 Infinera
customers including the top three subsea customers and more than 60
percent of data center interconnect customers rely on Infinera
Instant Network to scale capacity on demand.
“Cloud and fiber-deep architectures will accelerate the demand
for optical network capacity,” said Jimmy Yu, Dell’Oro Group’s Vice
President of Optical Transport and Mobile Backhaul. “This means
future optical DWDM systems will have to deliver higher single
wavelength speeds sooner and be agile enough to be used in metro as
well as long haul environments. Infinera’s plan for ICE5 fits well
with our five-year projection that DWDM demand will grow faster in
metro access and aggregation locations due to data center
interconnect, 5G backhaul, and fiber-deep.”
“Innovation is on fast forward at Infinera as we build on our
success with ICE4 to introduce ICE5 - the industry’s first 2.4 Tb/s
optical engine,” said Dr. Dave Welch, Infinera Founder, Chief
Strategy and Technology Officer. “With ICE5 we are bringing our
leading-edge technologies to market faster than ever, enabling our
ICP and CSP customers to respond quickly to explosive bandwidth
growth and ultimately win in their markets.”
Infinera Intelligent Transport Network platforms with ICE5 are
planned for availability in early 2019.
For more information, visit
www.infinera.com/ice5-innovation-on-fast-forward.
Contacts:
Media: Anna VueTel. +1 (916) 595-8157avue@infinera.com
Investors:Jeff HustisTel: + 1 (408)
213-7150jhustis@infinera.com
About InfineraInfinera (NASDAQ:INFN) provides
Intelligent Transport Networks, enabling carriers, cloud operators,
governments and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate
service innovation and automate optical network operations.
Infinera’s end-to-end packet-optical portfolio is designed for
long-haul, subsea, data center interconnect and metro applications.
To learn more about Infinera visit www.infinera.com, follow us on
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blog.infinera.com.
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Infinera Corporation.
This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, but not limited to: the technical, economic and
operational benefits of the ICE optical engines in optical network
systems; that the release of ICE4 and ICE5 demonstrates an
increasing cadence toward ICE6; and that Infinera Intelligent
Transport Network platforms with ICE5 are planned for availability
in early 2019. 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 Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the quarter and year ended December 30,
2017 as filed with the SEC on February 28, 2018, 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.
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