INFN Infinera Corporation

Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) has appointed Dirk Corsus as vice president of systems engineering to provide further experience and leadership to the company's systems engineering team. Mr. Corsus brings more than 20 years of global experience in engineering and product development, with particular expertise in optical networking and telecommunications switching environments.

Mr. Corsus spent 23 years with Alcatel and Alcatel Lucent managing global engineering teams, and has been involved with product launches including optical, routing, and access products. He has deep experience with the design and implementation of carrier-class systems to meet the highest standards of service providers worldwide. Among his positions at Alcatel, Mr. Corsus served as Vice President of Engineering and Product Solutions for the Fiber to the User Group, where he was responsible for the development and launch of an Ethernet-centric access solution which rapidly became a market leading business with a worldwide customer list including many of the world's largest telecom companies.

"Infinera's photonic integration technology has allowed us to create the densest digital optical transport platform, bringing significant operating expense savings for our customers while reducing carbon footprint," Mr. Corsus commented. "Whereas only a few years ago, systems showed up in the market that moved a few hundreds of Gigabit of traffic around in each rack, our upcoming next generation of PIC technology will be designed to scale to multiple Terabits per rack and enable higher speed interfaces such as 100 Gigabit Ethernet."

"Dirk is a highly skilled engineering leader and he will help us accelerate our product development efforts, in our current segments and new ones," commented Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh.

The Infinera DTN, the first optical system based on large-scale photonic integrated circuits, is the leader in the long-haul optical networking market in North America. Deployed in long-haul and metro core networks, the Infinera DTN combines 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/.

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, including that Infinera's photonic integration technology creates the densest digital optical transport platform, bringing significant operating expense savings for our customers while reducing carbon footprint; that; our upcoming next generation of PIC technology will be designed to scale to multiple Terabits per rack and enable higher speed interfaces such as 100 Gigabit Ethernet; and that the Infinera DTN, the first optical system based on large-scale photonic integrated circuits, is the leader in the long-haul optical networking market in North America. 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 that may impact Infinera's business are set forth in our annual report Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 17, 2009, as well as subsequent reports 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.

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