Cable&Wireless Worldwide Selects Infinera's DTN-X for Multiterabit Optical Network
March 05 2012 - 7:00AM
Marketwired
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today that Cable&Wireless
Worldwide (CWW), an international integrated communications and
data hosting provider, has selected Infinera's Digital Optical
Network solution, based on the new DTN-X platform, for its Europe
Persia Express Gateway (EPEG) network, delivering a reliable, high
capacity network connection between Europe and Asia. CWW chose
Infinera's DTN-X platform for its scalability, simplicity and
efficiency, and ability to support a muliterabit network.
Cable&Wireless Worldwide is a global telecommunications
company providing a wide range of high-quality managed voice, data,
hosting, and IP-based services and applications. CWW's
international cable network spans every continent covering more
than 150 countries.
EPEG will stretch approximately 10,000 kms from Frankfurt in
Germany to Oman with the unique attribute of having only 246 kms of
undersea cable and all other routes terrestrial. EPEG will allow a
telecommunication transit route alternative to the Red Sea, Suez
Canal, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea regions and can play an
important role for traffic re-routing in the event of earthquakes
and disasters, which have been known to affect multiple systems at
once. A number of providers are collaborating on this project and
building networks in their own regions, with CWW building out the
segment from Frankfurt, Germany to the Ukraine/Russian border.
CWW's multiterabit EPEG optical network will use Infinera's
Digital Optical Network solution, powered by Infinera's DTN-X,
which includes the latest 500 Gb/s photonic integrated circuits
(PICs). The Infinera DTN-X delivers 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent
super-channels and is upgradeable to 1 Tb/s super-channels in the
future, providing scalability with investment protection. The
platform integrates 5 Tb/s of OTN switching which will enable CWW
to efficiently converge layers of the network resulting in reduced
capital and operational expenses. Furthermore, Infinera's
intelligent GMPLS automation software will enable CWW to rapidly
provision highly-reliable low-latency services, including 100 Gb/s
Ethernet, making it highly competitive across the Europe to Asia
route. The disruptive nature of Infinera's 500 Gb/s PIC also
enables network operators, like CWW, to consume less space and
power, making the platform more efficient than any other solution
on the market today.
"We believe that the Europe Persia Express Gateway is an
important international network development as it will be providing
high capacity, diverse connectivity from the Middle East Region to
Europe," said Rick Perry, vice president international planning at
Cable&Wireless Worldwide. "Infinera's solution is helping to
underpin that development."
"We are excited to partner with Cable&Wireless to build what
we believe is the most advanced and reliable optical transport
network between Europe and Asia," said Tom Fallon, Infinera
President and CEO. "At Infinera we are focused on helping global
network operators like Cable&Wireless Worldwide to improve the
scalability of their networks while simplifying operations and
increasing the efficiency of fiber assets."
Infinera's product portfolio includes Infinera's DTN long haul
and metro platform, powered PICs and is designed to scale up to 6.4
Tb/s of transmission capacity per fiber; Infinera ATN, a scalable
metro WDM transport platform; Infinera's DTN-X platform with 500
Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels; and Infinera's Managed Services
for global service and support.
About Infinera Infinera specializes in
Digital Optical Networking systems that are designed to continually
improve the economics of optical networking by combining the speed
of optics with the simplicity of digital. Infinera is unique in its
use of breakthrough semiconductor technology: Large Scale Photonic
Integrated Circuit (PIC). Infinera's systems leverage PIC
technology to provide customers with a service-ready architecture
that enables faster time-to-revenue and greater profitability
through network efficiency 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 forward-looking statements
including, among other things, statements relating to Cable and
Wireless International's selection and intent to deploy DTN-X and
future capabilities of DTN-X; DTN-X's scalability, simplicity and
efficiency, and ability to support a muliterabit network; that the
DTN-X delivers 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels and is
upgradeable to 1 Tb/s super-channels in the future, providing
scalability with investment protection; that platform integrates 5
Tb/s of OTN switching enabling efficiently converge layers of the
network resulting in reduced capital and operational expenses; that
the GMPLS automation software will enable rapid provisioning of
highly-reliable low-latency services, including 100 Gb/s Ethernet;.
The disruptive nature of Infinera's 500 Gb/s PIC also enables
network operators to consume less space and power, making the
platform more efficient than any other solution on the market
today. These forward-looking statements are based on our current
expectations. Actual results may vary materially from these
expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, aggressive business tactics by our
competitors, our dependence on a single product, our reliance on
single-source suppliers, and our ability to respond to rapid
technological changes. Further information about these risks and
uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties that affect our
business, is contained in the risk factors section and other
sections of our annual report on Form 10-K filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2011, as well
subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC. These
reports are available on our website at www.infinera.com and the
SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Infinera assumes no obligation to,
and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking
statements.
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