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Fri, August 28, 2009 Infinera: Infinera Helps Bring Broadband to Grant County Residents
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - August 28, 2009) - Grant County Public Utility District (PUD) has selected Infinera (
Grant PUD began building a wholesale fiber-to-the-home network in 2000. The first home came online during a pilot project in August of that year. At that time, Grant PUD was an under-served county and in several low-population density areas of the county there was no landline telephone service available. Today, Grant PUD has achieved a 40% "take rate" for homes passed who have chosen to subscribe to one or more triple play services. Competitive carriers have also entered the market to offer triple play services.
With a plan to bring fiber to 80% of the residences and 95% of businesses served, Grant County PUD required a system that could add bandwidth quickly and easily. Infinera's digital architecture, based on Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs), enables the network to add large chunks of capacity quickly and easily. Infinera's Digital ROADM architecture enables the network to be reconfigured in software in response to changing traffic patterns. Traditional analog ROADMs often require manual reconfiguration or equipment changes ("truck rolls") to support a new configuration.
"Grant County selected Infinera for the speed, flexibility and ease of operation of its integrated digital switching and the digital ROADM capabilities," said Robert Bergman, telecom engineer for Grant County PUD. "Infinera allows Grant County PUD engineers to provision circuits quickly and easily and the Infinera architecture dramatically simplifies operation of the network, requiring far fewer line cards, optical cables and spare parts to keep on hand."
"We are pleased to be part of the visionary fiber-optic build-out taking place in Central Washington," said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "The flexibility, ease of operation, and cost-effectiveness of an Infinera network has helped make it possible to bring affordable broadband to residents and businesses in Grant County."
Grant County Public Utility District is a Washington state municipal corporation that began electric service in 1942. Owned by the people it serves, Grant PUD generates and sells electricity to Grant County residents and millions of customers throughout Central Washington and the Pacific Northwest. The Priest Rapids Project comprises Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams and produces nearly 2,000 megawatts of clean, renewable and reliable electricity -- enough to supply a city the size of Seattle. A leader in science based technology; Grant PUD is committed to finding effective measures for the protection, mitigation and enhancement of salmon, steelhead and other natural and cultural resources.
The Infinera DTN is the first optical networking system powered by photonic integrated circuits. Deployed worldwide in long-haul and metro core networks, the Infinera DTN combines 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 our digital architecture, enables the network to add large chunks of capacity quickly and easily and that the flexibility, ease of operation, and cost-effectiveness of an Infinera network makes it possible to bring affordable broadband to residents and businesses. 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 that may impact Infinera's business are set forth in our annual report Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 17, 2009, as well as subsequent reports 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.
