SDN Communications Selects Infinera to Simplify Business Connectivity in South Dakota
June 25 2008 - 1:22PM
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SUNNYVALE, CA Digital Optical Network to simplify communications
and service delivery for its local telecom, research and education,
and wholesale customers in South Dakota.
Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, SDN Communications is an
independent regional interexchange carrier owned by South Dakota's
18 independent local telephone companies. SDN provides telecom and
data services to its members, the state government of South Dakota,
the South Dakota Research Education and Economic Development (REED)
network as well as wholesale services to other interexchange
carriers and wireless telecom companies.
Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization(TM) will enable SDN to
deliver services more quickly to its customers because the unique
Infinera architecture puts in place a pool of available bandwidth
that can be provisioned or reconfigured in software to meet
customer demand. Interchangeable client-side modules enable SDN to
offer a wide range of services over a single Infinera
infrastructure. SDN is seeing increased demand for its services due
to growing consumer demand for Internet video and video-on-demand,
and growing enterprise demand from sectors like finance and health
care for connectivity to large regional data centers.
SDN chief executive officer Mark Shlanta said that Infinera's
network will enable SDN to speed up its delivery of services to
customers, as compared to the 60 to 120 days it may take to
provision a new wavelength on a traditional DWDM system. "We
position ourselves in the marketplace as the provider that offers
'businessimplification' -- a phrase we coined to demonstrate how we
simplify our customers' businesses by offering more services more
quickly and more cost-effectively. Infinera's network technology
takes us to the next level of delivering on that promise," said Mr.
Shlanta.
"We are very pleased to support SDN Communications and the
business and educational communities of South Dakota with an
Infinera Digital Optical Network," said Infinera CEO Jagdeep
Singh.
The Infinera DTN is a digital ROADM combining in a single
platform scalable optical transport, digital bandwidth management,
and GMPLS-powered service intelligence.
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.
About SDN Communications
SDN Communications' 21,000-mile fiber optic footprint touches
300 South Dakota communities and reaches into Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska, Wyoming and North Dakota. Eighteen of South Dakota's
independent telephone companies -- cooperative, municipal, tribal,
and family-owned companies -- own SDN. It is the premier
business-to-business broadband service provider for:
Connectivity - for multiple-location offices
Internet - dedicated service
Network Surveillance - guarding networks
Networking Equipment - cabling infrastructure, data equipment,
and IP telephony
For more information go to: www.sdncommunications.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 the benefits and
capabilities or our products and the Digital Optical Networks
architecture, including the benefits of Bandwidth Virtualization,
the timing for SDN to offer new services on the Infinera Equipment
and Infinera's belief about the timing for customers to provision
new services on a traditional DWDM system, and other statements
that can be identified by forward-looking words such as
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"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 annual report
filed on Form 10K filed with the SEC on February 19, 2008 and our
public announcements, reports to stockholders 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 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.
For further information: Media: Jeff Ferry Infinera Tel (408)
572-5213 jferry@infinera.com Investors: Bob Blair Infinera Tel.
(408) 716-4879 bblair@infinera.com
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