Pacnet Accelerates Network Upgrades With Infinera
Sunnyvale, CA, September 30, 2008 – Pacnet has selected Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) as one of its key suppliers to enable rapid network capacity upgrades across strategic parts of its networks in Asia and US.
By deploying Infinera’s Digital Optical Networking system to upgrade its backhaul networks and interconnections between its points of presence (PoPs) in these locations, Pacnet has been able to significantly shorten service provisioning times compared to traditional dense-wave-division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. Additionally, Infinera’s solution was selected because it satisfied Pacnet’s stringent requirements with respect to reliability, GMPLS network intelligence, and scalable DWDM technologies.
“We have seen an exponential increase in the demand for intra-Asia and trans-Pacific traffic in the past 18 months, driven largely by bandwidth-intensive applications like high definition video broadcasts and unified communications applications,” said Pacnet Chief Technology Officer Wilfred Kwan. “Our customers often require large amounts of additional capacity at short-notice, thus we needed to build a next-generation network that is fast, responsive and able to scale up quickly. Deploying Infinera’s advanced, next-generation optical system has helped us to meet this requirement.”
As part of its trans-Pacific strategy to offer additional capacity and capabilities between Asia and North America, Pacnet has also deployed Infinera’s solution to interconnect its PoPs in Los Angeles. Pacnet announced in February 2008 its plan to build EAC Pacific, which is part of the US$300 million trans-Pacific Unity cable project, a 10,000-kilometer submarine cable linking Japan with the west coast of the US.
Pacnet is Asia’s largest independent telecommunications service provider formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet. It owns and operates EAC-C2C, Asia’s longest submarine cable network at 36,800 kilometers, which links major Asian markets including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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. The simplicity of operations has enabled Pacnet to deliver high-bandwidth services quickly and cost-effectively to customers throughout Asia and in the USA.
The Infinera DTN is the first commercially deployed optical system based on photonic integrated circuits integrating more than 60 optical devices on a pair of chips. Integration produces significant benefits in terms of cost, space consumption, power consumption, reliability, and scalability. By eliminating more than 90% of the fiber connections in an optical system, the Infinera system delivers very high reliability. Infinera has built on that core advantage with a test and manufacturing process designed to ensure that Infinera systems deliver extremely high reliability out of the box and in operation in the field.
Pacnet also plans to deploy Infinera’s new ILS2 system. The new system delivers enhanced optical reach and fiber capacity while extending the advantages of Infinera’s digital architecture, including a GMPLS-powered network operating system for operational efficiency and protection.
“Service providers in Asia are seeing exponential growth in bandwidth, like their counterparts in the rest of the world,” said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. “They share a need for flexibility, intelligence and reliability in next generation DWDM systems. We are very pleased to support Pacnet in addressing these needs with the industry’s best digital optical network equipment.”
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.
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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.
About Pacnet
Pacnet is the region’s largest independent telecommunications service provider, formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet. Pacnet owns and operates EAC-C2C, Asia's longest submarine cable infrastructure at 36,800 km, with a design capacity of 10.24 Tbps. With a comprehensive portfolio of city-to-city connectivity, data communications and IP-based solutions and services, Pacnet is able to deliver solutions for carriers and large enterprises, as well as small/medium businesses. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore with offices in all key markets in Asia and North America. For more information, please visit: www.pacnet.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: that the speed of deployment and reliability of the Infinera system 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 enables delivery of high-bandwidth services quickly and cost-effectively to customers throughout Asia and in the USA; that the Infinera DTN is the first commercially deployed optical system based on photonic integrated circuits integrating more than 60 optical devices on a pair of chips; that integration produces significant benefits in terms of cost, space consumption, power consumption, reliability, and scalability; that by eliminating approximately 90% of the fiber connections in an optical system, the Infinera system delivers very high reliability and that its core advantage ensures Infinera systems deliver extremely high reliability out of the box and in operation in the field; and that the new system delivers enhanced optical reach and fiber capacity while extending the advantages of Infinera’s digital architecture, including a GMPLS-powered network operating system for operational efficiency and protection.
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