Cable&Wireless Worldwide Selects Infinera’s DTN-X for Multiterabit Optical Network

CWW to Deploy 500 Gb/s Super-Channels on the Most Advanced and Reliable Fiber Optic Network Linking Europe to Asia

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwire -03/05/12)- Infinera (NASDAQ:INFN – News) announced today that Cable&Wireless Worldwide(CWW), an international integrated communications and data hosting provider, has selected Infinera’s Digital Optical Networksolution, based on the new DTN-X platform, for its Europe Persia Express Gateway (EPEG) network, delivering a reliable, high capacity network connection between Europe and Asia. CWW chose Infinera’s DTN-X platform for its scalability, simplicity and efficiency, and ability to support a muliterabit network.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide is a global telecommunications company providing a wide range of high-quality managed voice, data, hosting, and IP-based services and applications. CWW’s international cable network spans every continent covering more than 150 countries.

EPEG will stretch approximately 10,000 kms from Frankfurt in Germany to Oman with the unique attribute of having only 246 kms of undersea cable and all other routes terrestrial. EPEG will allow a telecommunication transit route alternative to the Red Sea, Suez Canal, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea regions and can play an important role for traffic re-routing in the event of earthquakes and disasters, which have been known to affect multiple systems at once. A number of providers are collaborating on this project and building networks in their own regions, with CWW building out the segment from Frankfurt, Germany to the Ukraine/Russian border.

CWW’s multiterabit EPEG optical network will use Infinera’s Digital Optical Network solution, powered by Infinera’s DTN-X, which includes the latest 500 Gb/s photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The Infinera DTN-X delivers 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels and is upgradeable to 1 Tb/s super-channels in the future, providing scalability with investment protection. The platform integrates 5 Tb/s of OTN switching which will enable CWW to efficiently converge layers of the network resulting in reduced capital and operational expenses. Furthermore, Infinera’s intelligent GMPLS automation software will enable CWW to rapidly provision highly-reliable low-latency services, including 100 Gb/s Ethernet, making it highly competitive across the Europe to Asia route. The disruptive nature of Infinera’s 500 Gb/s PIC also enables network operators, like CWW, to consume less space and power, making the platform more efficient than any other solution on the market today.

“We believe that the Europe Persia Express Gateway is an important international network development as it will be providing high capacity, diverse connectivity from the Middle East Region to Europe,” said Rick Perry, vice president international planning at Cable&Wireless Worldwide. “Infinera’s solution is helping to underpin that development.”

“We are excited to partner with Cable&Wireless to build what we believe is the most advanced and reliable optical transport network between Europe and Asia,” said Tom Fallon, Infinera President and CEO. “At Infinera we are focused on helping global network operators like Cable&Wireless Worldwide to improve the scalability of their networks while simplifying operations and increasing the efficiency of fiber assets.”

Infinera’s product portfolio includes Infinera’s DTN long haul and metro platform, powered PICs and is designed to scale up to 6.4 Tb/s of transmission capacity per fiber; Infinera ATN, a scalable metro WDM transport platform; Infinera’s DTN-X platform with 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels; and Infinera’s Managed Services for global service and support.

About Infinera
Infinera specializes in Digital Optical Networking systems that are designed to continually improve the economics of optical networking by combining the speed of optics with the simplicity of digital. Infinera is unique in its use of breakthrough semiconductor technology: Large Scale Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC). Infinera’s systems leverage PIC technology to provide customers with a service-ready architecture that enables faster time-to-revenue and greater profitability through network efficiency 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 forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements relating to Cable and Wireless International’s selection and intent to deploy DTN-X and future capabilities of DTN-X; DTN-X’s scalability, simplicity and efficiency, and ability to support a muliterabit network; that the DTN-X delivers 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels and is upgradeable to 1 Tb/s super-channels in the future, providing scalability with investment protection; that platform integrates 5 Tb/s of OTN switching enabling efficiently converge layers of the network resulting in reduced capital and operational expenses; that the GMPLS automation software will enable rapid provisioning of highly-reliable low-latency services, including 100 Gb/s Ethernet;. The disruptive nature of Infinera’s 500 Gb/s PIC also enables network operators to consume less space and power, making the platform more efficient than any other solution on the market today. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations. Actual results may vary materially from these expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, aggressive business tactics by our competitors, our dependence on a single product, our reliance on single-source suppliers, and our ability to respond to rapid technological changes. Further information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties that affect our business, is contained in the risk factors section and other sections of our annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 1, 2011, as well subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC. These reports are available on our website at www.infinera.com and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Infinera assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements.

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