CenturyLink and Infinera Support One of the World’s Fastest Temporary Networks at SC18
November 12 2018 - 8:00AM
CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL), a leading global network services
company, and Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks,
supplied equipment, software and services in support of
terabit-scale connectivity for one of the world’s fastest temporary
networks at this week’s SC18, the International Conference for High
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
CenturyLink and Infinera, along with other contributors from
industry, academia and government, are delivering multi-terabit
capacity to SCinet, the dedicated high-capacity network that
supports revolutionary applications and some of the world’s most
advanced supercomputing experiments at the SC18 conference. The
bandwidth, expected to be more than 4 terabits per second, will
connect the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas with
wide area networks in several cities, including Chicago, Los
Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Sunnyvale and Washington, D.C.,
demonstrating CenturyLink’s rapid provisioning of 100 gigabit
services.
“A scalable, agile and low-latency infrastructure plays a
critical role in addressing the demanding and ever-increasing
connectivity requirements of high-performance computing and the
global research and education community,” said Andrew Dugan, Chief
Technology Officer at CenturyLink. “We are pleased to work closely
with Infinera to deliver terabit-scale capacity for SCinet,
underscoring our commitment to serving the needs of these
customers.”
This year’s SCinet leverages the CenturyLink core optical
transport network and the Infinera XT-3600 platform, powered by the
fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4), to deliver
super-channel-based terabit capacity to the conference site. At the
Infinera booth during SC18, Infinera and CenturyLink are also using
the XT Series platform and Infinera’s Xceed Multi-layer SDN
Platform to demonstrate a software-defined networking (SDN)
solution featuring real-time telemetry performance monitoring data
streaming to automatically detect and dynamically respond to
network issues using predefined network policies.
CenturyLink operates a robust, global 450,000-route-mile fiber
network and utilizes Infinera’s automated, high-capacity transport
solutions in its backbone network.
“Our collaboration with CenturyLink at SC18 highlights our
leadership role in delivering the most advanced optical transport
networking solutions capable of pushing the boundaries of
innovation in network speed, efficiency and automation,” said Bob
Jandro, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Infinera.
Contacts:
Infinera Media:Anna VueTel. +1 (916)
595-8157avue@infinera.com
CenturyLink Media:Stephanie MeisseTel. +1 (419)
755-8433stephanie.n.meisse@centurylink.com
Infinera Investors:Jeff HustisTel: +1 (408)
213-7150jhustis@infinera.com
About CenturyLink CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is
the second largest U.S. communications provider to global
enterprise customers. With customers in more than 60 countries and
an intense focus on the customer experience, CenturyLink strives to
be the world’s best networking company by solving customers’
increased demand for reliable and secure connections. The company
also serves as its customers’ trusted partner, helping them manage
increased network and IT complexity and providing managed network
and cyber security solutions that help protect their business.
About SC18SC, sponsored by IEEE Computer
Society and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) offers a
complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the
many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and
analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research,
education and commerce. This premier international conference
includes a globally attended technical program, workshops,
tutorials, a world class exhibit area, demonstrations and
opportunities for hands-on learning. For more information on SC18,
please visit: https://sc18.supercomputing.org
About InfineraInfinera (NASDAQ: INFN) provides
Intelligent Transport Networks, enabling carriers, cloud operators,
governments and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate
service innovation and automate optical network operations.
Infinera’s end-to-end packet-optical portfolio is designed for
long-haul, subsea, data center interconnect and metro applications.
To learn more about Infinera visit www.infinera.com, follow us on
Twitter @Infinera and read our latest blog posts at
blog.infinera.com.
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statements are not guarantees of results and should not be
considered as an indication of future activity or future
performance. Actual results may vary materially from these
expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties.
Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks
and uncertainties that affect Infinera’s business, is contained in
the risk factors section and other sections of Infinera’s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the quarter and year ended September 29,
2018 as filed with the SEC on November 8, 2018, as well subsequent
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