CenturyLink and Infinera: On the Path Toward the Cognitive Network
December 11, 2018
By Sharfuddin Syed, Distinguished Engineer, Infinera and Jack Pugaczewski, Distinguished Architect, CenturyLink A new generation of end-user applications portends to not only drive continued demand for increased capacity, but also to create formidable operational challenges resulting from rapid and unprecedented shifts in traffic patterns. Therefore, we hear so much in the industry today about the importance of network automation. As fiber is pushed deeper into the network and becomes increasingly critical to emerging services such… Read More
Aloha! Infinera’s Talking About Transforming Subsea Networks at PTC'18 in Hawaii Exciting news! Infinera set a huge industry benchmark for subsea capacity-reach last quarter on the Seabras-1 cable with our latest subsea platform Infinera XTS-3300. As we gear up this week to celebrate PTC's 40th anniversary in Honolulu, our team… Read More
It has been a busy couple of weeks for Infinera in the world of open optical networks, and particularly open line systems. First, we were proud to be selected as the newest member of the Open ROADM MSA, one of the leading forums for defining and implementing standards for open… Read More
Last week was a rather hectic one in Denver, Colorado, with over 10,000 cable industry professionals descending on the city for the annual Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers® (SCTE) Cable-Tec Expo conference and exhibition. It was a busy week for the Infinera team, with lots of engagement with existing and… Read More
The instant scalability of compute, storage and network capacity using a virtual infinite pool of resources is one of the significant attributes of the cloud. Scaling up, or vertically, in a data center (DC) is when a single server utilizes more of its internal resources to enhance performance for an… Read More
The subsea cable market is booming with approximately $9.8 billion in new cables expected to enter service between 2016 and 2018 driven largely by the cloud. The deployment of a subsea cable of over 10,000 kilometers (km) in length can cost more than $500 million, with multiple investors typically financing… Read More
Last week the Infinera team, along with our mobile demonstration unit, the Infinera Express, attended the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2017 exhibition and conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The exhibition attracted 5,234 visitors, with 313 exhibiting companies from 27 countries and a record 3,189 people visiting the Market Focus… Read More
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Bax, Chief Operating Officer of Seaborn Networks. Our discussion is captured below. Scott: Thanks for taking the time to chat today, Andy. Can you start by telling us a bit about Seaborn Networks? Andy: We are the only truly independent… Read More
Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud…it seems that every other word in our industry is “cloud.” Rightly so, because it has become the center of the new era of the digital communication and information technology (IT) landscape for business. Almost everything we do with our smart devices involves the cloud, and connectivity… Read More
Today marks a milestone in Infinera’s journey of continuing to push the boundaries of optical networking. Seaborn Networks announced the deployment of the Infinera XTS-3300 meshponder on their Seabras-1 subsea cable. Seabras-1 is one of the longest uncompensated subsea fiber cables in the world, connecting New York and São Paulo.… Read More
Summer is almost over, but interconnection is as hot as ever. The metro cloud ecosystem (Figure 1) continues to expand, driven by strong growth in public cloud services, content delivery and other cloud-based applications. In the middle of it all, distributed internet exchanges (IXs), colocation providers and bandwidth providers work… Read More
