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COLT Selects Infinera for Pan-European Network
Enables New Services, Faster Delivery
| Source: Infinera
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - June 22, 2009) - COLT, a leading European provider of business
communications, has selected an Infinera (NASDAQ : INFN ) Digital Optical
Network for its pan-European network to enable it to deliver a broad range
of service to customers more quickly than ever before.
COLT operates a 13-country, 25,000km network that includes metropolitan
area networks in 34 major European cities with direct fiber connections
into 16,000 buildings and 18 COLT data centres. The first phase of COLT's
Infinera network connects major cities in eight countries in the business
heart of Europe, including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy.
COLT chose Infinera because they believe that the speed and simplicity of
Infinera's digital architecture will enable COLT to deliver services to
their customers more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Infinera's
architecture enables the rapid delivery of services because every Infinera
line card enables 100 Gigabits/second of optical capacity, which is
automatically configured and available to support services once the line
card is installed. With Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization model, COLT can
both achieve rapid provisioning of a range of services as well as enjoy
full utilization of the optical capacity, without complex optical
engineering. This flexibility is not possible with traditional DWDM
networks, where each service is tightly coupled to the wavelength
transponder card.
Infinera's unique digital architecture will also help COLT meet the growing
demands of their customers. COLT's customers require a range of different
services including wavelengths and Ethernet at varying bit rates. Through a
combination of Infinera's Just-in-TAM fulfillment program and intelligent
GMPLS control plane software, COLT can rapidly deliver a broad range of new
services to their customers over pre-deployed 100Gbps DWDM increments. With
many of Europe's largest financial institutions as customers, COLT is
focused on delivering a network with high reliability and low latency. The
use of Infinera's photonic integration technology also delivers significant
savings in space and energy consumption.
Network Deployed in Three Months
Other Infinera features that delivered value to COLT included the rapid
initial deployment of the first phase of the network and Infinera's digital
performance monitoring capabilities. The first phase of the network was
deployed in just three months, significantly faster than the time required
by a traditional DWDM network. Based on Infinera's large-scale photonic
integrated circuits, the Infinera DTN optical system uses fewer line cards
and fewer cables, simplifying and speeding up the initial deployment
process. In addition, Infinera's GMPLS-powered IQ™ network operating
system supports rapid deployment with intelligent features like automatic
recognition and inventorying of network assets.
"Infinera's next generation photonic integration technology is helping COLT
to achieve its goal of operating the most modern and advanced network in
Europe and delivering the highest-quality services to all our customers,"
commented Dr Alireza Mahmoodshahi, COLT's Chief Technology Officer.
"We are thrilled to deliver an Infinera Digital Optical Network to COLT,
one of Europe's most respected carriers, and we believe that the Infinera
network will give COLT a significant competitive advantage in fulfilling
customer needs with speed and flexibility," commented Infinera CEO Jagdeep
Singh.
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
customers 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 http://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,
including that the Digital Optical Network enables delivery of a broad
range of services more quickly than ever before; that Bandwidth
Virtualization model enables rapid provisioning of a range of services as
well as full utilization of the optical capacity, without complex optical
engineering; that the flexibility (enabled through Bandwidth Virtualization
is not possible with traditional DWDM networks; that the unique digital
architecture will help meet the growing demands of customers; that through
a combination of Just-in-TAM fulfillment program and intelligent GMPLS
control plane software, customers can rapidly deliver a broad range of new
services to their customers over pre-deployed 100Gbps DWDM increments; that
.the use of Infinera's photonic integration technology also delivers
significant savings in space and energy consumption; that the first phase
of the network was deployed significantly faster than the time required by
a traditional DWDM network; and that based on Infinera's large-scale
photonic integrated circuits, the Infinera DTN optical system simplifies
and speeds up the initial deployment process. Such forward-looking
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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
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