Infinera (News - Alert) has won an RFQ at Deutsche Telekom for its pan-European network.

 

Infinera system would be deployed by DT to take advantage of Infinera's Digital Optical Networks architecture, including significantly improved scalability, flexibility, and speed of service delivery.

 

These benefits are enabled by Infinera's pioneering use of large-scale photonic integrated circuits, or PICs, combining the functions of dozens of discrete optical devices into a single pair of chips.

 

"We selected the Infinera system to prepare for the next generation of international network operations and to help our customers to take advantage of this innovative and highly-efficient solution with the most flexibility, quickest service provisioning and complete remote capabilities," said Wolf Pueschner, of Global Networks, Deutsche Telekom (News - Alert), in a statement.

 

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's largest telecom carriers. As part of its global network, DT's pan-European network spans almost nine thousands kilometers and links Germany with most major European markets. DT selected Infinera after a thorough RFQ process in which many of the world's largest optical networking suppliers participated.

 

DT chose Infinera for the unique benefits and advantages of Infinera's PIC-based Digital Optical Networks architecture, including the new ILS2 (Infinera Line System 2) system. This system offers up to 160 DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) channels in the C-band, extends optical reach to 2500 kilometers, and enables future capacity scalability up to 8 Tbps on a fiber.

 

The ILS2 system works with Infinera's current photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which put 100 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) of DWDM capacity on a pair of chips, and will be compatible with future generations of Infinera PICs, including the 400 Gb/s PICs Infinera announced in February.

 

Infinera's Digital Optical Networks architecture exploits the use of PICs to create a highly-scalable, flexible, and cost-effective architecture with an unrivalled capability to enable network operators to deliver services, including highly-differentiated services, quickly and flexibly in response to customer demands. Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization enables a wide range of optical services to be delivered over the same optical infrastructure, by decoupling the service from the underlying optical infrastructure.

 

"We are thrilled that DT, one of the world's largest and most influential network operators, has chosen Infinera's ILS2 system for the backbone of this new network," said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh."

 

“This is a tremendous validation of our Digital Optical Networks architecture and of the innovative photonic integration which is at the heart of all our systems. This award makes clear that the benefits of PIC-based digital optical networks are powerful and realizable by carriers across the full range of geographies, markets, and applications."

 

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.