SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - June 25, 2008) - SDN Communications has selected an Infinera
(
NASDAQ:
INFN) Digital Optical Network to simplify communications and
service delivery for its local telecom, research and education, and
wholesale customers in South Dakota.
Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, SDN Communications is an independent
regional interexchange carrier owned by South Dakota's 18 independent local
telephone companies. SDN provides telecom and data services to its members,
the state government of South Dakota, the South Dakota Research Education
and Economic Development (REED) network as well as wholesale services to
other interexchange carriers and wireless telecom companies.
Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization™ will enable SDN to deliver services
more quickly to its customers because the unique Infinera architecture puts
in place a pool of available bandwidth that can be provisioned or
reconfigured in software to meet customer demand. Interchangeable
client-side modules enable SDN to offer a wide range of services over a
single Infinera infrastructure. SDN is seeing increased demand for its
services due to growing consumer demand for Internet video and
video-on-demand, and growing enterprise demand from sectors like finance
and health care for connectivity to large regional data centers.
SDN chief executive officer Mark Shlanta said that Infinera's network will
enable SDN to speed up its delivery of services to customers, as compared
to the 60 to 120 days it may take to provision a new wavelength on a
traditional DWDM system. "We position ourselves in the marketplace as the
provider that offers 'businessimplification' -- a phrase we coined to
demonstrate how we simplify our customers' businesses by offering more
services more quickly and more cost-effectively. Infinera's network
technology takes us to the next level of delivering on that promise," said
Mr. Shlanta.
"We are very pleased to support SDN Communications and the business and
educational communities of South Dakota with an Infinera Digital Optical
Network," said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh.
The Infinera DTN is a digital ROADM combining in a single platform scalable
optical transport, digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service
intelligence.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications
carriers worldwide. Infinera's systems are unique in their use of a
breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit
(PIC). Infinera's systems and PIC technology are designed to provide
optical networks with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations,
faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated
services without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more
information, please visit
www.infinera.com.
About SDN Communications
SDN Communications' 21,000-mile fiber optic footprint touches 300 South
Dakota communities and reaches into Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and
North Dakota. Eighteen of South Dakota's independent telephone companies --
cooperative, municipal, tribal, and family-owned companies -- own SDN. It
is the premier business-to-business broadband service provider for:
Connectivity - for multiple-location offices
Internet - dedicated service
Network Surveillance - guarding networks
Networking Equipment - cabling infrastructure, data equipment, and IP
telephony
For more information go to:
www.sdncommunications.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on
current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and
uncertainties. These statements are based on information available to
Infinera as of the date hereof; and actual results could differ materially
from those stated or implied, due to risks and uncertainties.
Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Infinera's
expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future such
the benefits and capabilities or our products and the Digital Optical
Networks architecture, including the benefits of Bandwidth Virtualization,
the timing for SDN to offer new services on the Infinera Equipment and
Infinera's belief about the timing for customers to provision new services
on a traditional DWDM system, and other statements that can be identified
by forward-looking words such as "anticipated," "believed," "could,"
"estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or
similar words. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to
differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements include aggressive business tactics by our competitors, our
dependence on a single product, our ability to protect our intellectual
property, claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property,
our manufacturing process is very complex, product performance problems we
may encounter, our dependence on sole or limited source suppliers, our
ability to respond to rapid technological changes, our ability to maintain
effective internal controls, the ability of our contract manufacturers to
perform as we expect, general political, economic and market conditions and
events, including war, conflict or acts of terrorism; and other risks and
uncertainties described more fully in our annual report filed on Form 10K
filed with the SEC on February 19, 2008 and our public announcements,
reports to stockholders and other documents filed with or furnished to the
Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are based on
information available to us as of the date hereof and we assume no
obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press
release, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
Contact Information: For further information:
Media:
Jeff Ferry
Infinera
Tel (408) 572-5213
jferry@infinera.com
Investors:
Bob Blair
Infinera
Tel. (408) 716-4879
bblair@infinera.com