21 May 2014

DANTE and Infinera win award for fastest provisioning of long haul multi-Terabit transmission capacity on a live network

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), and DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) have won the Global Telecommunications Business Innovation Awards in the Wholesale Service Innovation category. The award recognizes the achievement of a Guinness World Record for the fastest provisioning of long haul multi-Terabit transmission capacity on a live network. Chris Champion, Infinera’s senior vice president of EMEA sales, accepted the award at the ceremony last week in London.

To achieve the Guinness World Record, Infinera and DANTE installed and activated eight Terabits per second of long haul super-channel optical capacity, enough capacity to simultaneously stream 1.6 million high-definition movies in each direction. This capacity was activated across the GÉANT production network in 19 minutes and 1 second after plugging in the first line card. The record was set using an Infinera Intelligent Transport Network featuring the Infinera DTN-X platform, the industry's only platform to deliver production ready long haul 500Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels based on 500Gb/s photonic integrated circuits.

"We are delighted to achieve this prestigious recognition following our Guinness World Record achievement with Infinera," said Michael Enrico, CTO at DANTE. "By future-proofing our network with Infinera's technology, we are ensuring that we can continue to stay ahead of the exponential growth in data, and that the users of the GÉANT network can continue to set new standards in the pace of scientific research."

"We are very pleased to share this award with DANTE," said Champion. "With the Infinera DTN-X platform, this allows GÉANT's optical network to continue to transport massive amounts of data to support experiments and applications that are crucial to academic research, empowering scientific progress efficiently, reliably and cost-effectively."

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