SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 14, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Infinera (Nasdaq:INFN) will unveil its 40 Gigabit/second (Gb/s) strategy and a new 40 Gb/s module for its Infinera DTN system at next week's NXTComm industry trade show. Infinera will also be discussing the latest update in its network operating system, IQ4.0, which is designed to offer further advances in Digital Optical Networks intelligence and performance.
The Infinera 40G Tributary Adapter Module (TAM) provides true plug-and-go capability over any Infinera DTN network without complex optical planning. Furthermore, the Infinera Digital Optical Networks architecture empowers carriers to deploy 40G services over most long-haul and metro fiber plants currently deployed in the field. Architected to work seamlessly with today's Infinera DTN system, the 40G TAM module provides customers with the ability to rapidly deploy 40G services. The 40G TAM module maps a 40Gb/s service to four 10 Gb/s wavelengths enabled by an Infinera 100 Gb/s line card. This broadens the capabilities of the Infinera DTN system while continuing to deliver cost-effectiveness and flexibility to today's networks.
Free Your Services with Infinera
Many 40 Gb/s solutions available today or in development require complex modulation schemes, expensive per-wavelength compensation of optical impairments such as polarization mode dispersion (PMD), or expensive upgrades to the network infrastructure. The Infinera 40Gb/s solution overcomes these challenges by decoupling the bandwidth services layer from the engineering concerns associated with the optical transport layer. Infinera's 40 Gb/s services are designed to be deployed easily in virtually any network that is today running 10 Gb/s systems and are fully compatible with other services offered by the Infinera DTN System, including 10 Gb/s services or lower-speed services. As part of its "Free Your Services" vision, Infinera's architecture separates the services a telecommunications service provider offers from the underlying physical line rate those services are carried on. Infinera believes this enables service providers to match the services its customers are demanding with the optical transport solution that delivers those services most cost-effectively.
As service providers worldwide have discovered in the last three years, the Infinera Digital Optical Networks solution is designed to deliver enhanced revenue opportunities while reducing capital and operating expenses per Gigabit-kilometer. The Infinera 40 Gb/s TAM is designed to take these benefits to a new level.
According to some analysts, despite high expectations and significant investment, 40 Gb/s services have been slow to take off due to the high cost and extensive challenges for existing fiber infrastructure involved in deploying 40 Gb/s networks. The first quarter of this year was the first time in which 40 Gb/s line cards exceeded shipments of 100 units per quarter, yet they still accounted for less than 1% of total long-haul wavelengths shipped in the quarter, according to published analyst data. Yet while the market is small today, Infinera believes that growing deployment of 40 Gb/s router interfaces may drive increasing demand for optical solutions at 40 Gb/s.
"We believe that the industry has been too focused on physical line rate and not focused enough on the business solution that the carriers need," said Chris Liou, Infinera Vice President of Product Management. "The Infinera 40 Gb/s TAM combines innovative technical solutions with a new way of thinking about optical services that enable carriers to implement what we believe is a better solution to the business problem of building highly-scalable and easily-manageable high-capacity networks."
In a recent lab demonstration, Infinera successfully sent 40 Gb/s services across 2000 kilometers of fiber, far exceeding the reach of most 40 Gb/s systems available today. In this lab demonstration at Infinera's Columbia, Maryland Optical Systems Lab, Infinera engineers achieved successful error-free transmission of 40Gb/s services over an extended distance of 2000 kilometers of fiber without regeneration. We believe that this demonstration, using the current generation of Infinera photonic integrated circuits and a hybrid system of Raman and EDFA amplification, demonstrates the robustness of the Infinera DTN System and the capability of the Infinera 40 Gb/s system to be deployed in a broad range of real world networks without expensive re-engineering of the network infrastructure.
IQ4.0 Brings Bigger, Smarter Capabilities to Infinera DTN
The upcoming release of Infinera's IQ network operating system, IQ4.0, builds on the innovations of Infinera's Digital Optical Networks. IQ4.0 enables the DTN System to support 40 Gb/s services carried over 10 Gb/s wavelengths. This capability is architected to be able to extend to other super-wavelength services such as 100 Gb/s services in the future.
IQ4.0 includes the capability for providing digital multicasting, a feature which we believe is unique to Infinera's Digital Optical Networks and offers many network benefits. We believe that digital multicasting will offer new service protection opportunities, make it easier to manage traffic on the Digital Optical Network, and will reduce operating expense and deliver more reliable services to customers. Digital multicasting also enables non-intrusive test set monitoring of any bandwidth service running through the network for improved customer responsiveness and potential savings on network test equipment. Digital multicasting is also architected to provide new network capability for enabling cost-effective point-to-multipoint broadcast of high bandwidth services, such as delivery of broadcast video to multiple network points.
The IQ4.0 release is also designed to extend the Infinera DTN's rich digital performance monitoring capabilities to include new packet performance capabilities. This feature will extend the pervasive performance monitoring capabilities of the Infinera network to yet more services, and is designed to enable carriers to achieve even greater levels of network reliability while rolling out high-bandwidth services yet controlling costs.
"As important and innovative as the photonic integrated circuit is, Infinera is about a lot more than PICs," commented Chris Liou. "Infinera is about exploiting the opportunities created by cheap, powerful electronics at many points in the network to build smarter, more powerful optical networks that we believe will be better able to deliver high-capacity services while giving network operators the power to deliver more services, know what's going on in the network, and manage that network more quickly and more cost-effectively."
Infinera at NXTComm
The NXTComm show opens on Monday June 18th at the McCormick Center in Chicago. Infinera will be at Booth 2468 with product demonstrations and staff available to describe the Free Your Network vision in greater detail. Customers are invited to stop by the booth, or contact us at sales-am@infinera.com to arrange a visit and/or briefing.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems (the DTN System) to telecommunications carriers, cable operators and other service providers worldwide. Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuit (PIC) incorporates 100 Gigabits per second of transmit and receive capacity and the functionality of more than 60 discrete optical components into a pair of indium phosphide chips. Infinera's DTN system and PIC technology are designed to provide optical networks that provide operating simplicity, enhanced revenue generation, faster time-to-service and capital cost savings. For more information, please visit www.infinera.com.
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