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Covage Selects Infinera for Nationwide Network in France
| Source: Infinera
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - November 17, 2008) - Covage has selected the Infinera DTN optical
system (NASDAQ : INFN ) for a nationwide network across France to support its
wholesale telecom business with the speed and flexibility of Infinera's
digital architecture and help it fulfill its mission of bringing greater
competition to the French telecom market.
Covage, which is involved in the acquisition, development and operation of
"Open Access Next Generation Networks" in France, provides wholesale
bandwidth services to telecom operators, enabling communities to reduce the
costs for communication services for enterprises and households, while
extending broadband to a larger portion of the population and making new
digital services available more widely. Covage is jointly owned by Axia
Networks France, a wholly owned subsidiary of Axia NetMedia Corporation,
and VINCI Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of VINCI Construction France.
It currently has interests in 12 regional networks and is building a
national optical backbone to interconnect its regional networks and offer
cost-effective carrier services to its customers nationwide.
Covage chose Infinera because of the speed, flexibility, and digital
intelligence of Infinera's Digital Optical Networks. Infinera's use of
photonic integration enables Covage to put more optical capacity in a
smaller footprint than on competitor systems, helping it economize on
operating expense. The separation between the line-side modules and the
client-side modules enables Covage to offer many different services from
the same system, offering further economies.
"Infinera's advanced technology, the intelligence in the platform, and the
flexibility of the services allowed us to create a simple, straightforward,
and very cost-effective offering for regional & national network traffic
with traffic protection, which will be valuable to us in this highly
competitive market," said Norbert Blanchard, Technical Operations Director
at Covage.
"Using Infinera on our backbone network helps us build local projects with
scalable bandwidth capacity by providing us with a cost-effective backbone
network, which is essential because local officials are very concerned to
keep subscription costs low for the end-users of the network," he added.
With Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization™, Infinera systems deploy a
minimum of 100 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) on every line card, and capacity can
be quickly and flexibly deployed and reconfigured to deliver a wide variety
of services. Covage plans to be able to deliver services between most
points on its network simply by fitting Infinera Tributary Adapter Modules
(TAMs) at the endpoints of any circuit or service. This will enable it to
deliver services in a matter of days, compared to most competitors in
France who typically require around twelve weeks to deliver a service.
Infinera's GMPLS network intelligence speeds up the deployment process by
using software to recognize assets and configure services on the network.
"Covage's selection of Infinera for a nationwide French network reflects
the continued momentum of Infinera's Digital Optical Networks paradigm with
service providers across Europe," said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "We are
pleased to support Covage with this network and help them bring more
choices and competition to the French market."
The Infinera DTN is a Digital ROADM for long-haul and metro core networks,
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
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enables the provision of services more quickly than with traditional DWDM
systems; that Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization™ allows capacity to be
quickly and flexibly deployed and reconfigured to deliver a wide variety of
services; that the simplicity of operations has enabled delivery of
high-bandwidth services quickly and cost-effectively to customers; that
Infinera's use of photonic integration enables customers to put more
optical capacity in a smaller footprint than on competitor systems, helping
to economize on operating expense; and that the separation between the
line-side modules; and that the client-side modules enables customers to
offer many different services from the same system, offering further
economies. Such
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