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Bulgartel Builds Nationwide Bulgarian Network With Infinera
Providing Digital Optical Networks to Booming Eastern European Market
| Source: Infinera
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - April 17, 2008) - Bulgarian telecom carrier Bulgartel has
selected the Infinera (NASDAQ : INFN ) Digital Optical Networking system for
a nationwide Bulgarian optical network. The new network will enable
Bulgartel to provide greater capacity and new services to its customers
within Bulgaria and to customers requiring international connectivity, as
Bulgaria becomes an increasingly important hub for international
communications. System integrator SmartCom Bulgaria AD is providing support
services for the new network.
Bulgartel offers wavelength, SDH, and IP services on its network. Bulgartel
has experienced growth in bandwidth demand in excess of 100 percent a year,
driven by rapid growth in broadband penetration among consumers, increasing
use of IP networks by the corporate sector, and fast-growing Internet
traffic traveling from Western Europe to the Middle East and Asia. Growing
Internet use in the Middle East and Central Asia is driving more IP traffic
through Bulgaria and Turkey, the main communications crossroads linking
those markets to Western Europe. Within Bulgaria, broadband penetration to
the home is growing rapidly, driven by low subscription charges and
widespread availability of access connections. Rising prosperity today is
enabling more and more consumers to subscribe to Internet services.
Bulgartel chose Infinera because Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization™
architecture enables Bulgartel to install and configure circuits quickly
and cost-effectively in a range of protocols and bit rates including
Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDH, from STM-1 to STM-64. In
addition, the simplicity and ease of operation of the Infinera system
allows Bulgartel to deploy the network with a much smaller team of optical
experts than would be possible with a traditional DWDM (dense
wavelength-division multiplexing) optical system.
"We chose Infinera because it fits perfectly our company strategy for
responding to customer service requests with the best quality and the
fastest response time. Growing competition in the Bulgarian market requires
Bulgartel to adopt the most competitive technologies and marketing
policies. So we have chosen to start with the implementation of a state of
the art technology, Infinera's digital optical networking systems," said
Dimitar Bambov, CEO of Bulgartel.
"The Bulgarian telecom market is highly competitive, and the large-scale
photonic integration of the Infinera DTN system gives Bulgartel a
competitive advantage empowering Bulgartel to offer a range of new
high-capacity services," commented Bisser Ivanov, managing director of
SmartCom Bulgaria AD, a system integrator based in Sofia, Bulgaria, that
provides nationwide design, implementation, and support services to
Bulgartel.
"We are very pleased to support Bulgartel with a new Infinera network,"
said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "Bulgaria is a vibrant, fast-growing
market, open to new ideas and new technologies, which makes Infinera's
Digital Optical Networks a great fit."
The Infinera DTN is a Digital ROADM for long-haul and metro core networks
based on large-scale photonic integrated circuits, combining high-capacity
DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered
service intelligence in a single platform.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications
carriers worldwide. Infinera's systems are unique in their use of a
breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit
(PIC). Infinera's systems and PIC technology are designed to provide
optical networks with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations,
faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated
services without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more
information, please visit www.infinera.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on
current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and
uncertainties. These statements are based on information available to
Infinera as of the date hereof; and actual results could differ materially
from those stated or implied, due to risks and uncertainties.
Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Infinera's
expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, such
as the benefits and capabilities of our products and the Digital Optical
Network's architecture, that we believe Bandwidth Virtualization™
architecture enables Bulgartel to install and configure circuits quickly
and
cost-effectively in a range of protocols and bit rates including Gigabit
Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDH, from STM-1 to STM-64, and that the
simplicity and ease of operation of the Infinera system allows Bulgartel to
deploy the network with a much smaller team of optical experts than would
be possible with a traditional DWDM (dense wavelength-division
multiplexing) optical system. Such forward-looking statements can be
identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipated," "believed,"
"could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and
"would" or similar words. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements include aggressive business tactics by our
competitors, our dependence on a single product, our ability to protect our
intellectual property, claims by others that we infringe their intellectual
property, our manufacturing process is very complex, product performance
problems we may encounter, our dependence on sole or limited source
suppliers, our ability to respond to rapid technological changes, our
ability to maintain effective internal controls, the ability of our
contract manufacturers to perform as we expect, a new technology being
developed that replaces the PIC as the dominant technology in optical
networks, general political, economic and market conditions and events,
including war, conflict or acts of terrorism; and other risks and
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