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MUMBAI:
Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth solutions, has
selected Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) for its regional network in the
Northeastern U.S. Infinera will bring the speed, responsiveness
and flexibility of an Infinera Digital Optical Network to Zayo’s
business, giving Zayo contiguous service from Chicago to New York
and Washington, DC.
Based
in Louisville, Colorado, Zayo Bandwidth, a Zayo Group business,
operates regional networks in the Northeast, Midwest, Minnesota
and the Memphis, Tennessee area. Zayo offers a wide range of telecom
services including private line, Ethernet, wavelength, Internet
and colocation services to customers in the telecom, enterprise
and government sectors and other bandwidth-intensive organizations.
Zayo has raised more than $340 million in private equity and debt
financing to support an aggressive plan to provide telecom services
in selected regional markets where demand is growing rapidly.
Zayo
has deployed Infinera in the busy northeastern corridor from New
York to Washington, DC as well as interconnecting Chicago to the
east coast to serve the increasing bandwidth requirements of its
customers. Zayo chose Infinera because the Infinera Digital ROADM
offers high capacity and integrated, reconfigurable switching, enabling
Zayo to provision or reconfigure bandwidth quickly and cost-effectively.
“The
Infinera system is very easy to provision and operate,” commented
Zayo Bandwidth Vice President of Engineering Troy Kau. He added:
“Zayo Bandwidth’s mission is to be responsive, and Infinera
enables us to be agile and configure our network quickly to meet
the needs of our customers.”
“Zayo
has a visionary business plan to offer the latest technology and
great customer service to its customers and we are delighted to
support their efforts with an Infinera Digital Optical Network,”
said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh.
The
Infinera DTN system is based on Infinera’s innovative large-scale
photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which integrate more than 60
optical devices on a pair of chips, to enable an optical system
with 100 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) of capacity on every line card.
The PIC-based system enables Infinera’s Bandwidth Virtualization,
an architecture where a wide range of services, from 1 Gb/s to 10
Gb/s today, and 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s services in the future, can
be quickly provisioned and reconfigured from a pool of readily available
bandwidth which is installed in 100 Gb/s increments.
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.
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