Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) has announced that OVH, France's largest
web hosting company, has selected Infinera's unique digital
architecture for its pan-European network. OVH has deployed an
Infinera Digital Optical Network to offer high-speed connections
with reliability, flexibility, and intelligent management
throughout its network.
Based in Roubaix in northern France, OVH is a leader in telecom
and Internet services. According to data from analyst firm
Netcraft, OVH ranks first in Internet hosting in France with
400,000 customers and is the second largest web hosting company in
Europe. After an initial deployment of an Infinera network and
another optical vendor's network between Paris and Roubaix in 2006,
OVH has decided to go forward with Infinera as its provider of
optical networks. OVH is using Infinera to connect its peering
points in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Frankfurt. For a
graphical representation of the traffic on the OVH network, see
http://weathermap.ovh.net. OVH is now planning a further major
expansion into the U.S. market.
OVH chose Infinera's solution for its widely recognized ease of
operation and network management, including a powerful GMPLS
control plane for enabling intelligent, automated network
discovery, service provisioning, and service recovery. Infinera's
solution enables OVH to deploy a scalable, highly flexible and
highly resilient optical infrastructure for its core business, and
easily manage its lifecycle with Infinera's end-to-end network
management solution, Infinera Management Suite (IMS).
"Initially, we were attracted by the ease of installation and
the speed of installation of the Infinera network," commented
Octave Klaba, founder and president of OVH. "Later on, we
appreciated the flexibility of the Infinera network, its
reliability, and the speed with which we could add capacity to the
network.
"For us, these Infinera features deliver clear benefits to our
business," Klaba explained. "Our customers want us to guarantee
network quality, low latency and quick access to their websites,
and we get that with our Infinera backbone. These features are
critical in several customer segments, including, for example,
online gaming. We have had no major incident on our network in four
years of working with Infinera and we therefore have confidence in
their technology as the platform for our entire network."
OVH's aim is to deploy its network as close as possible to its
customers so as to maintain the shortest link between its servers
and the end-user. OVH has designed its network with a
high-availability architecture, and Infinera's GMPLS capability
supports that architecture with re-routing of traffic in case of
network issues to guarantee network reliability and uptime. OVH is
planning to open two new data centers by the first half of next
year, including one in Strasbourg in eastern France to provide
connections to eastern Europe, and one in either the south of
France or Spain to provide connectivity to customers in southern
Europe. Today OVH operates 80,000 servers, with plans to increase
that to 100,000 by the first half of next year.
"OVH is a highly entrepreneurial, technological innovator
playing a leading role in making Internet services more accessible
to millions of people, and we are delighted to support them with a
pan-European Infinera network," said Infinera CEO Tom Fallon.
Powered by Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuits,
the Infinera DTN combines high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated
digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service
intelligence in a single platform.
About OVH Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba,
OVH is an independent French company based in Roubaix. OVH ranks
first in Internet hosting in France and second in the European
market (Source: Netcraft). Its competitive advantage is an
attractive offering in terms of quality and price. Leveraging
technical advantages including a proprietary cooling system in its
data centers, OVH promotes innovation and performance improvement
while maintaining a respect for the environment. Hosting some of
the world's largest networks of game servers, OVH has recently
entered the market for voice telephony. With an international
customer base, OVH is leveraging its knowledge and experience with
an international expansion plan involving subsidiaries in countries
around Europe and beyond.
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/.
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 OVH chose
Infinera's solution for its widely recognized ease of operation and
network management, including a powerful GMPLS control plane for
enabling intelligent, automated network discovery, service
provisioning, and service recovery; that Infinera's solution
enables OVH to deploy a scalable, highly flexible and highly
resilient optical infrastructure for its core business, and easily
manage its lifecycle with Infinera's end-to-end network management
solution, Infinera Management Suite (IMS); that the Infinera DTN is
believed to be the first, and still the only, optical networking
system powered by large-scale photonic integrated circuits; and
that the Infinera DTN combines high-capacity DWDM transport,
integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service
intelligence in a single platform. Such forward-looking statements
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