Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Fri, January 30, 2009
Thu, January 29, 2009 Infinera: OTEGLOBE Selects Infinera for Pan-European Network
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - January 29, 2009) - OTEGLOBE, the international division of Greek incumbent national carrier OTE, has selected Infinera (
OTEGLOBE launched its Transbalkan Network (TBN) last year to connect Greece and the Balkans with central Europe and western Europe. With a unique geographical position between the Middle East and Europe, OTEGLOBE needed a fully protected, highly reliable, next generation network to provide international wholesale telecom services to other telecom operators and large enterprises in southeastern Europe and beyond.
OTEGLOBE has been experiencing a rapid increase in IP traffic, driven mainly by European customers and a growing volume of Middle Eastern business as broadband penetration continues to increase rapidly in the region. OTEGLOBE selected Infinera for its 7,000 kilometer Transbalkan Network because Infinera's digital architecture delivers the speed and scalability to accommodate rapid demand growth combined with the manageability and flexibility to accommodate many different services in a single platform. Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuits enable the Infinera system to support large networks with a highly scalable solution while at the same time delivering economies in space, power, and cost consumption and ease of operation.
"Strategically, the Transbalkan Network is core to our data and capacity business, and is aiming to reinforce OTEGLOBE's vision of essentially becoming the bridge connecting the Middle East with Europe through the Balkans. We needed to have a reliable, fully protected terrestrial network with the ability to turn up services quickly, as an alternative route to our existing sub-sea network through Italy," said P. Bosdogianni, Technology Director of OTEGLOBE. "Our analysis showed that speed, flexibility and reliability came though integration. Infinera met our requirements and we were glad to select Infinera for the deployment of our Transbalkan Network," she added.
"We are thrilled to support OTEGLOBE with a pan-European network, demonstrating our growing momentum with many of the world's largest and best-known telecom carriers," said 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 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 OTEGLOBE
OTEGLOBE, headquartered in Athens Greece, is a provider of international telecommunications wholesale services to high-capacity carriers and multi-site organizations in the broader SE European region. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of OTE (ASE: HTO) (
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 Infinera was selected for the scale, speed, and flexibility of its Digital Optical Networks architecture; and that Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuits enable the Infinera system to support large networks with a highly scalable solution while at the same time delivering economies in space, power, and cost consumption and ease of operation. Such forward-looking statements can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipated," "believed," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include aggressive business tactics by our competitors, our dependence on a single product, our ability to protect our intellectual property, claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property, our manufacturing process is very complex, product performance problems we may encounter, our dependence on sole or limited source suppliers, our 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 PIC as the dominant technology in optical networks, general political, economic and market conditions and events, including war, conflict or acts of terrorism; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our public announcements and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and we disclaim any obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
