Regional Spanish Education Network i2basque Deploys Infinera Network
June 01 2010 - 3:00AM
Marketwired
i2basque, the publicly financed research and education network of
Spain's Basque region has selected Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) for a
high capacity network to provide scientists and researchers in the
Basque region the speed, intelligence, and flexibility of an
Infinera network. The i2basque network has links with RedIRIS, the
Spanish national research network, and the GEANT network, the
pan-European research network. The i2basque network is managed by
the University of the Basque Country and serves more than 60
technology centers in the region, including universities, research
institutes, hospitals and biomedical research centers. i2basque
first deployed its network in 2005. i2basque is financed primarily
by the Basque regional government. The Basque region is an
autonomous region of Spain.
Following the lead of many other European network operators,
i2basque decided to move to a next generation network and deploy
100 Gigabit/second (Gb/s) links with Infinera DTN systems. Its aim
is to create a robust communication platform to support researchers
and e-science networks sharing very large data sets for
applications that include Internet analysis, health care and
research projects involving advanced research tools such as the
Canary Islands' Gran Canaria Telescope or the Large Hadron Collider
in Geneva. Support for the i2basque deployment was provided by
system integrator Telindus.
i2basque selected Infinera because the flexibility of the
Infinera network is designed to make it quick and easy to deploy
any service, from 155 Mbps to 40G, and scaling to 100GbE in the
future. Infinera's bandwidth management and GMPLS-based control
plane is engineered to enable the network to automatically
configure end-to-end circuits, speeding up the delivery of services
while reducing the engineering time required, and increasing the
accuracy and reliability of the provisioning process. With
switching and grooming at every node in the network, Infinera's
digital bandwidth management provides benefits in network
efficiency. In addition, the Infinera DTN's ability to do digital
bandwidth management in an integrated optical DWDM and OTN
switching platform is designed to enable the i2Basque network to
switch traffic at Layer 1, bypassing intermediate routers at
certain points in the network and saving on overall network costs.
Infinera's photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are designed to
support high capacity networks with more efficient power
consumption per Gigabit and greater reliability than in traditional
DWDM networks which are based on discrete optical components.
"Infinera systems meet our needs perfectly, with powerful
network management, high fault tolerance, protection, and reduced
power consumption. With Infinera technology, we can manage
end-to-end circuits and meet the needs of researchers from all over
Europe who are using our network today, and with the next
generation of 8 Terabit Infinera systems based on 500 Gb/s PICs we
will be able to meet their future needs," said Josu Aramberri,
i2basque Network Coordinator.
"i2basque is an innovative, forward-looking technology project
of the Basque government and we are very pleased to support
i2basque with an Infinera Digital Optical Network," said Infinera
CEO Tom Fallon.
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 customers 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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or strategies regarding the future, including that Infinera network
is designed to makes it quick and easy to deploy any service, from
155 Mbps to 40G, and scaling to 100GbE in the future; that
Infinera's bandwidth management and GMPLS-based control plane is
engineered to enable the network to automatically configure
end-to-end circuits, speeding up the delivery of services while
reducing the engineering time required, and increasing the accuracy
and reliability of the provisioning process; that switching and
grooming at every node in the network, Infinera's digital bandwidth
management provides benefits in network efficiency ; that the
Infinera DTN's ability to do digital bandwidth management in an
integrated optical DWDM and OTN switching platform is designed to
enable the i2Basque network to switch traffic at Layer 1, bypassing
intermediate routers at certain points in the network and saving on
overall network costs; and that Infinera's photonic integrated
circuits (PICs) are designed to support high capacity networks with
more efficient power consumption per Gigabit and greater
reliability than in traditional DWDM networks which are based on
discrete optical components. Such forward-looking statements can be
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