Equinix Selects Infinera for Metro Networks in North America and Asia
January 29 2008 - 12:39PM
Marketwired
SUNNYVALE, CA today announced that Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX)
has selected Infinera for its metro networks linking its Internet
Business Exchange(TM) (IBX�) centers in major cities in North
America and Asia.
Equinix's IBX centers are critical hubs in the infrastructure of
the Internet, and the selection of Infinera illustrates the
importance of Infinera's large-scale photonic integration and
Bandwidth Virtualization(TM) technology in supporting the growth of
bandwidth-intensive Internet applications and websites.
Equinix is a leading global provider of network-neutral data
center and interconnection services, offering premium colocation,
traffic exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. Global
enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network
service providers look to Equinix IBX centers for world-class
reliability and network diversity. Equinix IBX centers serve as
critical core hubs for IP networks and Internet operations
worldwide. With 37 IBX centers located in 17 strategic markets
across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Equinix enables
customers to reliably operate their mission-critical infrastructure
on a global basis.
"Ten Gigs is the New One Gig"
Equinix selected Infinera because of the benefits and global
track record of the Infinera architecture. Scalability, speed and
flexibility of provisioning, and service density were important
attributes for Equinix to meet the needs of today's marketplace. In
particular, Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization enables Equinix to
deploy large bandwidth quickly, and reconfigure it easily, rapidly,
and cost-effectively.
With many of the world's largest enterprises, content providers,
network service providers and financial institutions as customers,
Equinix also found that Infinera's DTN System met its high
standards for carrier-class reliability. In addition, Infinera's
successful deployment experience and customer acceptance in North
America, Europe, and Asia were crucial factors to Equinix as it was
seeking an optical system that had proven it could meet
international standards and requirements and function effectively
in multiple markets worldwide. Finally, Equinix was impressed by
Infinera's commitment to develop 100 Gigabit Ethernet solutions, a
technology Equinix regards as critical for meeting the needs of its
bandwidth-intensive customers in the future.
Equinix's Chief Technologist Lane Patterson highlighted the
importance of Infinera's unique architecture in helping it meet the
rapidly growing and often unpredictable needs of many of its
customers. "Some of the world's largest Internet content providers
rely on Equinix's network-rich interconnection hubs to facilitate
their high-performance content delivery operations," commented Mr.
Patterson. "To many of these companies, 10 Gigabits has become the
new 1 Gigabit, and their need for rapid provisioning of multiple 10
Gigabit wavelengths continues to grow. Infinera enables us to
respond quickly to this demand and to provide a highly scalable
solution for customers."
"We are very pleased to have Equinix as a customer," said
Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "Equinix's interconnection hubs
comprise the core of the Internet, and Equinix's deployment of
Infinera is another demonstration of the critical role that
Infinera and its unique Bandwidth Virtualization capabilities are
playing in supporting today's Internet."
The Infinera DTN is a Digital ROADM for long-haul and metro core
networks, combining high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated
digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service
intelligence in a single platform.
NOTE: See also today's Infinera news release, Infinera Launches
Bandwidth Virtualization Architecture for Industry-Leading Speed
and Flexibility.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to
telecommunications carriers worldwide. Infinera's systems are
unique in their use of a breakthrough semiconductor technology: the
Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC). Infinera's systems and PIC
technology are designed to provide optical networks with simpler
and more flexible engineering and operations, faster
time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated
services without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For
more information, please visit www.infinera.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements
based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that
involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on
information available to Infinera as of the date hereof; and actual
results could differ materially from those stated or implied, due
to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include
statements regarding Infinera's expectations, beliefs, intentions
or strategies regarding the future, such as the benefits and
capabilities of our products and the Digital Optical Network's
architecture, benefits that the Infinera architecture offered to
Equinix today, and enabled for Equinix in the future, the ability
of Bandwidth Virtualization enables Equinix to deploy large
bandwidth quickly, and reconfigure it easily, rapidly, and
cost-effectively, our ability to meet Equinix's high standards for
carrier-class reliability Infinera's successful deployment
experience and customer acceptance in North America, Europe, and
Asia, Infinera's commitment to develop 100 Gigabit Ethernet
solutions in the future, our ability to enable Equinix to respond
quickly to customer demands and to provide a highly scalable
solution for its customers and other statements that can be
identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipated,"
"believed," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may,"
"should," "will," and "would" or similar words. The risks and
uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially
from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements
include aggressive business tactics by our competitors, our
dependence on a single product, our ability to protect our
intellectual property, claims by others that we infringe their
intellectual property, our manufacturing process is very complex,
product performance problems we may encounter, our dependence on
sole or limited source suppliers, our ability to respond to rapid
technological changes, our ability to maintain effective internal
controls, the ability of our contract manufacturers to perform as
we expect, general political, economic and market conditions and
events, including war, conflict or acts of terrorism; and other
risks and uncertainties described more fully in our public
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statements are based on information available to us as of the date
hereof and we assume no obligation to update the forward-looking
statements included in this press release, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise.
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