Infinera and American Tower Complete Live Network Demonstration of First Point-to-Multipoint Coherent Optical Transmission in...
March 15 2021 - 8:00AM
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) and American Tower announced today the
successful completion of the first point-to-multipoint coherent
optical transmission in a carrier network environment in Latin
America. This field trial was conducted with Infinera’s XR optics
technology over American Tower’s Passive Optical Network (PON)
network in Colombia. The trial demonstrated XR optics’
compatibility with existing Gigabit PON (GPON) traffic over a
single-fiber PON deployment in a metro regional area.
The proof of concept shows American Tower’s ability
to take advantage of the transformative value that XR optics can
provide in the company’s existing network infrastructure. With over
400Gb of available capacity per leaf, XR optics is designed to
enable network operators like American Tower to dramatically
simplify their network architectures and significantly reduce CapEx
and OpEx costs while enhancing network scalability. This
demonstration paves the way for American Tower to leverage XR
optics to cost-effectively launch new revenue-generating services
and 5G.
“As American Tower is evolving its network in
preparation of new Edge Data Center and 5G applications, we are
always looking for innovative technologies to help us achieve
greater value on our existing infrastructure,” said Paul Choiseul,
Fiber CTO EMEA & Latin America at American Tower. “The success
of the Infinera XR optics solution over our PON network is the
culmination of an idea that was born two years ago, when we shared
with Infinera our roadmap to test advanced DWDM technologies over
ATC’s PON networks. This technology will allow us to provide high
capacity, ultra-low latency solutions over our existing PON
networks that will satisfy Edge Data Center and 5G
requirements.”
“The trial with American Tower provides another
proof point illustrating how Infinera’s digital subcarrier-powered
XR optics can be applied to existing networks and can seamlessly
coexist with GPON traffic,” said Dave Welch, Infinera Chief
Innovation Officer and Co-founder. “This represents a radical shift
in the way metro networks can be built, promising a dramatic
reduction in TCO, setting a new benchmark in scalability, and
increasing service flexibility and velocity.”
Infinera Contacts:
Media: Anna VueTel. +1 (916)
595-8157avue@infinera.com
Investors:Amitabh PassiHead of Investor
Relationsapassi@infinera.com
About American TowerAmerican
Tower, one of the largest global REITs, is a leading independent
owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real
estate with a portfolio of approximately 186,000 communications
sites. For more information about American Tower, please visit
www.americantower.com.
About InfineraInfinera is a global
supplier of innovative networking solutions that enable carriers,
cloud operators, governments, and enterprises to scale network
bandwidth, accelerate service innovation, and automate network
operations. The Infinera end-to-end packet optical portfolio
delivers industry-leading economics and performance in long-haul,
submarine, data center interconnect, and metro transport
applications. To learn more about Infinera visit www.infinera.com,
follow us on Twitter @Infinera, and read our latest blog posts at
www.infinera.com/blog.
Infinera and the Infinera logo are registered
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This press release contains forward-looking
statements, including but not limited to the potential financial,
technical and operational benefits of the XR optics solution. These
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 Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the Fiscal Quarter ended September 26, 2020
as filed with the SEC on November 5, 2020, as well as any
subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC. These
reports are available on Infinera’s 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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