Infinera Wins Key Approval for Chinese Market

BEIJING announced today that China's Ministry of Industry and Information (MII) has issued a Network Access License to Infinera for the Infinera DTN. Obtaining this certification is an important requirement for the deployment of the Infinera DTN by China's public sector and private sector telecommunications carriers.

The MII license is a mandatory requirement for foreign-owned and Chinese-owned companies to ship equipment into the Chinese market and connect equipment to the Chinese telecommunications infrastructure. Each applicant must meet a series of requirements including rigorous product testing, live systems operation, documentation submission, and expert evaluation.

Over several months, Infinera passed all required tests and criteria, successfully demonstrating to MII the features and capabilities of the DTN. The Infinera DTN is a Digital ROADM (Remotely Configurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer), combining scalable multi-wavelength DWDM transport, fully reconfigurable sub-wavelength digital switching, and GMPLS-enabled end-end service intelligence and automation. Based on Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs), the Infinera DTN enables a minimum of 100 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) of capacity on a fiber.

Beijing Office

In February 2008, Infinera opened a Beijing office to support customer deployments in China. With an experienced Chinese and international sales team, and a demonstration and training center for Infinera solutions planned to open soon, Infinera is well-equipped to support Chinese customers.

"MII certification is an important step forward for Infinera in the China market," said Scott Chandler, Vice President for Worldwide Sales, Infinera. "With its rapidly growing telecom, Internet, and wireless markets, China is an excellent market for Infinera's Digital Optical Networks solution. Infinera can deliver economic and technical benefits to incumbent and emerging operators in China, including greater capital efficiency, greater operating efficiency, and increased service velocity."

Mr. Chandler added that Infinera plans to continue to increase the resources Infinera dedicates to the Chinese market to ensure that customers in China can take advantage of its pioneering Digital Optical Networks architecture and photonic integration technology.

"We are 100 percent committed to the China market," said Mr. Chandler.

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, and that Infinera can deliver economic and technical benefits, including greater capital efficiency, greater operating efficiency, and increased service velocity. Such forward-looking statements 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, a new technology being developed that replaces the PIC as the dominant technology in optical networks, 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 annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 19, 2008, our public announcements and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and we disclaim any obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

For further information Asian media: Chew Peng Healey Infinera Tel. +65-97311948 chealey@infinera.com Other media: Jeff Ferry Infinera Tel. +1-408-572-5213 jferry@infinera.com Investors: Bob Blair Infinera Tel. +1-408-716-4879 bblair@infinera.com

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