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
By Mark Showalter Sr. Dir., Marketing Everyone here is excited about the recent demonstration of the world’s first 100 Gb/s service transmitted across the Pacific ocean with Pacific Crossing, a subsidiary of NTT in Japan. Because it is very expensive to deploy fiber optic cabling across oceans, subsea transmission is… Read More
By Mike Capuano Vice President, Corporate Marketing I hadn't been to Singapore since 2006. Back then I was with a different company, and while it was a good visit, this time I could feel the energy in the air. This time I was in town to launch the new DTN-X… Read More
By Mark Showalter Sr. Dir., Marketing We’ve been burning the midnight oil preparing for the big day–today! We finally unveiled what we have been working on–the new Infinera DTN-X. The Infinera DTN-X is based on our latest 500 Gb/s photonic integrated circuits. Designed for global service providers, the Infinera DTN-X… Read More
Join Infinera to hear an important update from CEO Tom Fallon and Chief Strategy Officer Dave Welch, other senior executives and industry experts. We will unveil a major breakthrough that promises to redefine how transport networks are designed, built, and managed. You need to attend this webcast if you are… Read More
By Hiro Notaney Director, Corporate Marketing Reading the Wall Street Journal a few months ago, I was fascinated to learn that the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s Oscar winner, Slumdog Millionaire, in which a kid from the slums of Mumbai wins a TV quiz show, comes from a book about physicist… Read More
By Hiro Notaney Director, Corporate Marketing Like many loyal and early-adopter Netflix customers, I was peeved by a recent announcement that the company was almost doubling the price of my monthly subscription to $16. Is this how they repay all those years of loyalty? Jacking up the price with a… Read More
The interesting thing about Mike Kelly is that until a few weeks ago, he was comfortably retired after a successful career culminating in a senior sales position at Juniper Networks. So why did Mike recently join Infinera as VP of Cable Sales? Was it the cutting edge technology? The highly-capable… Read More
By Geoff Bennett Infinera Product Evangelist At conferences and trade shows there’s often a discussion around the value of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs). The idea of these devices dates back to the mid-90s when the DWDM industry was born. Now there are tens of thousands of such devices deployed… Read More
By Mike Capuano VP, Corporate Marketing I joined Infinera on May 2 after multiple rounds of interviews. They sized me up and, of course, I sized up Infinera. After over 20 years in the industry, I had to admit that I was really impressed by a team with this level… Read More
