In Open ICE We Trust
February 1, 2019
What do you do when you begin to suspect that you can’t trust your current network equipment supplier to put your interests first? As network security concerns turn into national security headlines, trust in network equipment suppliers is getting more attention than ever, from major end-user customers all the way to the executive suites of the largest service providers. Of course, trusting your suppliers means more than believing in the security of their products. It… Read More
What can you expect from Infinera at OFC 2018, the premier conference for optical networking and communications? In past years we have introduced unique technological innovations to maximize optical performance for cloud scale transport networks. This year, you’ll see how we are putting that innovation on fast forward. Infinera’s unique… Read More
Here we are in Barcelona ready for this year’s monster Mobile World Congress (MWC) show, alongside over 108,000 other attendees and over 2,300 exhibiting companies. This promises to be a very busy and exciting week as we bring MOXI to the MWC audience. MOXI is Infinera’s Mobile Optical Xtreme Infrastructure… 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
