Media Coverage
2010
Cities must act fast on Google broadband offer
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, February, 2010
"Anything that will drive higher broadband speeds to residences and businesses will only benefit the entire ecosystem."
2009
Jagdeep Singh's Infinera effect
Gazettabyte, 12/27/2009
"We are looking to lead the 40 Gig market."
Computers Make The World Go Round
Woman Engineer Magazine, Fall 2009
"One of the most dynamic sectors in engineering is photonic materials," says Infinera PIC engineer Sheila Hurtt.
Photonic Integration: Bent on disruption
Gazettabyte, 10/26/2009
"Bandwidth growth is forcing us to consider architectures not considered before."
Infinera's new metro edge gear goes PIC-less
Telephony, 10/19/2009
"The ATN can exchange wavelengths directly with DTNs."
Anchors Away at Infinera
Telecom Ramblings, 9/2/2009
"Yesterday, Infinera announced its new product line for undersea cables."
Infinera Goes Underwater
Light Reading, 9/1/2009
"Submarine business is on the rise."
Cox Backbone Grows with ROADMs
Communications Technology Magazine, 8/18/2009
"It has been a godsend," Pellegri said.
Big Purple Truck
Fibre Systems Europe, 6/30/2009
"Setting up a new connection takes just 20 minutes with Infinera's kit, compared to 3-4 days using competitor's equipment."
Infinera Bolsters Colt's Backbone
Light Reading Europe, 6/22/2009
"To be able to do these things at the speed we have done with Infinera products is unheard of," says the CTO.
Infinera, a small tech company, is growing in the Lehigh Valley
The Morning Call, 5/29/2009
"'This is the best type of economic development that a community could ask for,' said US Congressman Charlie Dent."
Viking Victory for Infinera
Light Reading Europe, 4/30/2009
"In terms of products, Infinera's was the only future-proof product we saw."
Environment pays the price for boom in laptops and mobiles
The Sunday Times, 4/19/2009
"Infinera's next-generation chip will have enough data capacity to carry 1.2m YouTube videos, compared with 300,000 today, and will improve energy efficiency by 80%."
Fiber Sets Stage for Rural Broadband
Communications Technology, 3/30/2009
Infinera "is positioned to reap some of the benefits of the broadband stimulus."
Infinera Aims to Give Undersea Fiber Networks a Makeover
GigaOM, 3/23/2009
Infinera has been one of the optical industry's disruptors, helping to boost capacity and lower the costs of both inter- and intracity networks. Now the company is turning its attention to subsea networks...
Chips that take data speeds flying off the scale
by Jeff Ferry and Radha Nagarajan, FinancialTimes.com, 2/25/2009
"The dramatic growth of the silicon chip industry has been based on the ability of technologists to engineer ever more powerful chips by increasing the density of transistors packed on to each chip. The rise of photonic integrated circuits shows that indium phosphide-based chips are pursuing a similar path."
Infinera Sweeps MSOs, Looks Abroad
Light Reading, 1/6/2009
"Infinera Corp. has kicked off 2009 with a reminder of its success in the U.S. cable market, a prediction of renewed customer base growth, confidence about its potential for prolonged technical superiority in the optical market, and an eye on international markets."
2008
Infinera, Juniper, Internet2 team on 100-GigE test bed
Telephony Online, 11/18/2008
"The number of bits per second you're getting over a single wavelength really is not the important thing," said Drew Perkins, Infinera's chief technology officer. "The important thing is: What services are you able to deliver over a fiber network?"
Infinera: What spending slowdown?
Telephony Online, 10/22/2008
"Infinera beat expectations for the third quarter and remains on track to see 10% revenue growth this year."
CBR Interviews Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh
Computer Business Review, October, 2008
"The critical factor is what economic value your systems bring to the customer."
OIDA Photonic Integration Forum
by Jeff Ferry, fibresystems.org, 10/7/2008
"The two most interesting themes of the conference's first day were scalability and power consumption."
Photonic integration diverges down two paths
Lightwave, October, 2008
"We always come back to being able to double the bandwidth on a chip every three years," said Infinera's Dave Welch.
Speedy InP chips look to boost optical network capacities
Compoundsemiconductor.com, September, 2008
"Infinera is backing faster rates by halving the channel spacing and switching to DQPSK"
Photonic Integration drives down the cost per bit
FibreSystems Europe, September, 2008
"What Infinera has proved is that operators will go with the radical."
Cox Builds a Backbone
Light Reading's Cable Digital News, 7/15/2008
"We [will have] the ability to turn up how much capacity we need, and do it at our pace, as well," said Cox's Randy Kinsey.
Telecom warning: Take steps to innovate, or else
CedMagazine.com, 6/20/2008
"We're in danger of bottlenecking the growth of the Internet," said Infinera President and CEO Jagdeep Singh in his keynote address to NXTcomm08.
Demo shows progress on 100G Ethernet
EE Times, 6/12/2008
"We are already seeing strong interest from some of our largest customers who are asking when we will support 100G in the wide area for applications like linking remote data centers," said Randy Nicklas, chief technology officer at XO.
Infinera gets active about passives
fibresystems.org, 6/12/2008
"If there's one word to describe Infinera it's integration...[Infinera] is doing on the passive optical side what we've already achieved on the active PIC side."
Zayo lights Northeastern 'express lane'
Telephony Online, 5/22/2008
"Zayo also plans to keep using Infinera gear to expand throughout New Jersey, West Virginia, Tennessee and Indiana."
Interoute CTO Blames Vendors for Confusion
Light Reading Europe, 4/15/2008
"Technical capabilities have changed the economies of optical transport," stated Finnie.
Optical Vendors Face PIC Challenges
Light Reading, 3/24/2008
"The lead that Infinera has is pretty amazing,...A significant lead in the optical business is typically about six months, and this company is realistically about four years ahead of systems suppliers and component suppliers."
Infinera unveils photonic roadmap
fibresystems.org, 2/26/2008
"The company is demonstrating a 400 Gbit/s photonic integrated circuit (PIC) here at OFC/NFOEC."
400 Gigabit Photonic Integrated Circuit Slated by Infinera
ScreenPlays Magazine, 2/21/2008
"With plans to introduce a 400 Gbps PIC, the company is raising the bar."
Infinera Obliterates Q4 Estimates
Light Reading, 1/31/2008
"Infinera is getting sales from a wider customer base."
Equinix Calls on Infinera
Light Reading, 1/29/2008
"Equinix Chief Technologist Lane Patterson says Infinera has point-and-click provisioning and an easy-to-use self-managing platform."
XO Sweats its Optical Assets
Light Reading, 1/21/2008
"Underpinning the offer is the Infinera Corp. gear that XO has been deploying during the past 18 months or so."
Speedy InP chips look to boost
optical network capacities
Compoundsemiconductor.net, January, 2008
"Infinera is backing faster rates by halving the channel spacing and switching to DQPSK"
2007
Brits Build Backbone With Infinera
Light Reading Europe, 12/19/2007
"We've pretty much built a national network in eight weeks...and can increase capacity at the push of a button."
Survive the wait for faster Ethernet
ComputerWeekly, 11/27/2007
"Moving to 100 Gbps is a big leap...However the Internet never stands still."
Keeping Pace at Infinera
Silicon Valley Business Journal, 11/23/2007
"Infinera will change the future of optical telecommunication networks," says Vinod Khosla.
LHC data transport at SC07
iSGTW International Science Grid this Week, 11/21/2007
Internet2, Infinera, and 5 other organizations demonstrated a 40Gb/s network designed to carry data from the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
Infinera Momentum Continues
Light Reading, 10/24/2007
"With all this momentum, it's little surprise that Light Reading readers have taken notice."
Infinera Pulls a 360
Light Reading, 10/8/2007
"By deploying Infinera, 360networks can put services anywhere without regard to the wavelength infrastructure."
100-GigE Not Coming Soon Enough
Light Reading, 10/2/2007
"Standards for 100-Gbit/s Ethernet don't look as if they'll arrive quickly enough."
Infinera's InP Demo Heralds 10 Tbit/s Systems
Compoundsemiconductor.net, 9/21/2007
"We now have PIC networks that can span the entire fiber bandwidth, without a fiber-based optical amplifier."
Infinera Offers Super-Lambda Services
Fibre Systems Europe, September, 2007
"Our solution enables a streamlined operational model by enabling the 40 Gbit/s circuit to be provisioned, managed, protected and monitored as a single logical circuit."
Infinera Reports Second Quarter Earnings
Bloomberg News, 8/2/2007
"Infinera reported this week that invoiced shipments...more than tripled in the second quarter to $69 million."
Data Services Growth Pushes Cox to 800-Gigabit Optical Backbone
Screen Plays Magazine, August, 2007
"Infinera gives us speed of provisioning and flexibility in the face of uncertainty."
What are photonic integrated circuits?
Capacity Magazine, January, 2007
"It's quite possible that the same rapid advances seen in electronic ICs will be experienced in photonic ICs."
World's Fastest Optical Chip
MIT Technology Review, January - February, 2007
"Photonic integration becomes the technology that enables the Internet to grow."
Industry debates merits of 100GbE transmission
Lightwave, 1/1/2007
"Ethernet as a protocol has a lot of advantages as the next scaling step-stone..."
2006
What's holding up 40G?
Lightwave, 12/1/2006
"...Infinera has joined eight other vendors to establish the X40 multisource agreement (MSA) to develop a multirate 40-Gbit/sec optical transceiver that is only 2.5x more expensive than its 10-Gbit/sec counterpart."
A Better Fibre Glut
Financial Times, 11/8/2006
"telcos and internet service providers are now chasing speed of service delivery, and no longer price, from their bandwidth suppliers..."
Infinera Engineers Win LEOS Aron Kressel Award
China Fiber-Optic News, October, 2006
"It's great that we won this award, but it should be emphasized that we are representing a team of people here at Infinera, all of whom were involved in making this happen," says Dr. Rick Schneider...
Infinera Muscles into Interoute
Light Reading, 10/30/2006
"Optical equipment hotshot Infinera Corp. has secured itself another toehold in Europe with a deployment at pan-European carrier Interoute Telecommunications Ltd."
Watch and Learn
Capacity Magazine, October, 2006
"As a technology leader, Internet2 wanted its network deployed on the most up-to-date network platforms..."
Telecom Texas Hold'em
LightReading.com, 9/21/2006
"Infinera appears to be taking orders for long-haul optical DWDM systems as fast as the waitress at Dakota's jotted down our orders for prime dry-aged beef."
XO Lights Up
XChange Magazine, August, 2006
"The Infinera gear will allow XO to reduce its costs by about 30 percent..."
Infinera's PICs Generating Interest Among Carriers, Vendors Alike
Lightwave, 8/1/2006
"Infinera's 1.6-Tbit/sec PIC is representative of the kind of Moore's Law data rate increases the company has achieved over the last three years, and it has some of its competitors nervous."
Digital Vision Threatens Incumbent Telcos
Compound Semiconductor, 5/1/2006
CEO Jagdeep Singh discusses Infinera strategy with Compound Semiconductor Magazine
Photonic Integration, Get Set for the Revival
FibreSystems Europe, May, 2006
FibreSystems Europe looks at Infinera's role in the growing trend towards photonic integration.
XO Selects Infinera for Optical Network Upgrade
XChange Magazine, March, 2006
"XO Communications has selected Infinera?s DTN optical system to upgrade and expand its core long-haul backbone network and introduce new higher-capacity services."
2005
Startup Infinera Knocks Nortel Out Of The 10 Gb/s Box PDF
Broadband Business Forecast, November, 2005
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