INFN Infinera Corporation

Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) has appointed Satoshi Fujita president of Infinera Japan. Mr. Fujita brings extensive experience in the Japanese telecommunications industry, including more than 30 years working for both service providers and system vendors. He will focus on expanding Infinera's sales and marketing in Japan.

Mr. Fujita spent 30 years at NTT, Japan's incumbent telecom service provider and one of the world's top five telecom carriers, including a role as the head of NTT Communications' global services business which he grew from launch to a billion dollar business. Following his tenure at NTT, Mr. Fujita served as president of Lucent Technologies Japan, and subsequently, president of Alcatel-Lucent Japan.

"I'm excited to join Infinera," said Mr. Fujita. "Infinera has a great opportunity in the Japanese market, a market that is very open to innovation and new technologies such as Infinera's unique photonic integration."

Infinera has several customers operating networks in Japan. Last year, Infinera and Global Access Limited (GAL) carried out the first publicly announced demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services over a live network in Japan, using Infinera's 100 Gigabit Ethernet module to send 100 GbE traffic over the GAL network.

"Infinera has achieved a leadership position in the North American long-haul optical networking market, and our goal is to reach similar positions in other important markets," commented Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "With his experience, contacts, and knowledge of the challenges of building a service provider business as well as a systems vendor business, Satoshi Fujita will play a key role for Infinera in Japan."

The Infinera DTN, the first optical system based on large-scale photonic integrated circuits, 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.

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 http://www.infinera.com/.

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