24 May 2011

Infinera carries 2Tb/s of traffic on Paris–Lyon Route

Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that its customers are carrying more than 2 Terabits/second of live revenue-generating network traffic between Paris and Lyon for multiple customers, demonstrating the scalability and reliability of its solutions for carrying large and fast-growing volumes of traffic. Service providers with either large traffic volumes today or expected high rates of growth deploy the firm's networks for the scalability of its Digital Optical Networks architecture.

The 450km route between Paris and Lyon is one of the busiest in Europe, standing at the crossroads between northern and southern Europe, between western Europe and eastern Europe, between traffic from Africa and the Middle East, and traffic from North American which reaches Europe via coastal ports on the English Channel. Pan-European carrier Interoute Communications Ltd of London, UK and French operator Covage are among the service providers using Infinera networks to deliver services on this route.

Infinera network solutions are designed specifically to carry traffic in the hundreds of Gigabits and Terabit range due to the built-in scalability of its DTN system. The firm’s photonic integrated circuits integrate more than 60 optical components onto a pair of chips, enabling 100Gb/s of pre-provisioned capacity on every line-card, with plans to introduce PICs with 500Gb/s of pre-provisioned capacity on the firm's next-generation systems (available next year). Infinera claims that its 100Gb/s PICs have demonstrated outstanding reliability in live networks, recording more than six years of field operation with no PIC failures. In addition, the firm's Just-in-TAM guarantee ensures users of receiving new client service modules within 10 days of order, while the Infinera Management Suite enables on-demand, point-and-click turn-up of new revenue opportunity.

According to data from leading Internet exchanges in Europe, Internet traffic in Europe continues to grow at double-digit rates, driven by increasing investment in network capacity in the emerging nations of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the increasingly pervasive use of network devices (landline-based and mobile) and the growth of applications like cloud computing and video.

Interoute has built a large and growing business, meeting customer needs for network capacity across Europe using the speed and simplicity of the Infinera network. Interoute is active in 29 countries that it connects with its 60,000-lit fiber-kilometer network. “Our Infinera network is critical in helping us deliver services to customers when and where they need it very quickly and responsively,” says Interoute’s chief technology officer Matthew Finnie. “The Paris–Lyon route is one of many where we offer very large capacity and so are positioned to meet customer requests very quickly,” he adds.

Covage has built a green-field long-haul network serving 15 major cities in France with an Infinera network. The French operator offers services to service providers and enterprises, with competitive advantages including the ability to deploy services quickly, and a postage-stamp pricing model presenting a simple-to-understand model and the same prices for a connection whether it is 10km or 1000km. Covage also uses this Infinera network to support its 15 local broadband networks which are delivering broadband services to French regions. “Our Infinera network has helped us launch a successful business in France, carrying large volumes of corporate and Internet traffic, and also helped us deliver services to broadband customers,” says Vincent Couarraze, director of Covage Networks.

Infinera’s next-generation systems are expected to raise the bar further, offering advanced features and functionality, as well as capacity up to 25Tb/s. The firm’s Bandwidth Virtualization architecture enables the flexible deployment of PIC-based network capacity to carry any available service between any points on the network without the optical impairments or constraints typical of all-optical ROADMs (reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers).

“Customers today rely on Infinera when they have large volumes of traffic on busy routes because the Infinera solution is uniquely scalable and reliable, due to the innovation of large-scale PIC technology,” claims Infinera's executive VP & chief strategy officer Dr Dave Welch. “We intend to enhance these benefits even further as we roll out our new products over the next 12 months.”

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