UFINET Selects Infinera’s ICE6 800G Technology for Colombia Network
June 01 2021 - 8:00AM
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today that UFINET, a neutral
infrastructure wholesale operator in Latin America, selected
Infinera’s industry-leading ICE6 800G coherent technology for its
new national long-haul network in Colombia. This deployment will
double the capacity of UFINET’s current network, enabling it to
meet the growing bandwidth needs of its customers and provide
connectivity in regions currently unconnected. Deploying Infinera’s
ICE6-powered Compact Modular Platform on UFINET’s network will
enable the company to cost-effectively and seamlessly increase the
number of connectivity services it can provide to its customers.
UFINET is a neutral infrastructure operator serving the
wholesale telecommunications market, providing capacity services
and connectivity with a 75,000+ km optical fiber network connecting
17 countries in Latin America. With Infinera’s ICE6 800G solution,
UFINET will be able to offer new high-bandwidth connectivity with
industry-leading optical performance throughout Colombia. UFINET
plans to deploy Infinera’s 800G solution across its terrestrial
network to deliver maximum capacity at the longest reach and offer
enhanced service flexibility while reducing operating costs.
“UFINET aims to promote the development of next-gen,
high-bandwidth internet, voice, and video services in regions
across Latin America that need it the most,” said Juan Carlos
Naranjo, Chief Technology Officer at UFINET. “New, innovative
technology like Infinera’s ICE6 will be at the heart of these
developments, offering a solution that will help us deliver
cost-effective high-capacity bandwidth to meet the growing needs of
our service provider customers, helping them to deliver much-needed
broadband access to households throughout Colombia.”
“UFINET’s deployment of fifth-generation coherent technology
will provide them with higher capacity and enhanced spectrum
utilization over routes across the country,” said Nick Walden,
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Infinera. “Deploying
Infinera’s ICE6 solution will enable UFINET to deliver these
benefits to their customers, providing service providers in the
region with access to cost-effective, high-performance, and
high-capacity services.”
Contacts:
Infinera Media:Anna VueTel. +1 (916)
595-8157avue@infinera.com
Infinera Investors:Amitabh PassiTel. +1 (669)
295-1489apassi@infinera.com
About UFINETUFINET is the neutral
infrastructure wholesale operator of reference in Latin America,
with more than 75,000 km of optical fiber deployed in Mexico,
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. We
have major metropolitan network coverage in the most important
cities in Latin America: 2,000+ populations connected, 45,000+
on-net and 95,000+ near-net buildings, 5,000+ on-net towers, 1,000+
towers/poles leased for MNOs’ base stations, and more than 200,000
homes passed with neutral FTTH, all of them through end-to-end
optical fiber.
To learn more about UFINET, visit www.ufinet.com and follow us
on LinkedIn.
About InfineraInfinera is a global supplier of
innovative open optical networking solutions that enable carriers,
cloud operators, governments, and enterprises to scale network
bandwidth, accelerate service innovation, and automate network
operations. Infinera solutions deliver 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 and LinkedIn, and
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Infinera Corporation.
This press release contains forward-looking statements,
including but not limited to the potential benefits of deploying
Infinera’s ICE6 800G 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 March 27, 2021 as filed with the SEC on May 4, 2021, as well
as any subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC. These
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