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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- European business communications provider COLT (www.colt.net) has selected digital optical networking systems provider Infinera (www.infinera.com) as a fiber-optic network provider for its pan-European network, letting it deliver a broad range of service to customers more quickly than ever before.
Infinera's "Bandwidth Virtualization" model lets COLT rapidly provision a range of services and enjoy full utilization of its optical capacity, across its 13-country, 25,000 km (15,534 mile) network without complex optical engineering, according to Infinera's Monday announcement.
COLT said it chose Infinera because the speed and simplicity of Infinera's digital architecture helps COLT deliver services to their customers more quickly and efficiently than a traditional DWDM network, where each service is tightly coupled to the wavelength transponder card. Infinera's architecture enables the rapid delivery of services because every Infinera line card enables 100-Gigabit-per-second optical capacity, which is automatically configured and available to support services once the line card is installed.
"Infinera's next generation photonic integration technology is helping COLT to achieve its goal of operating the most modern and advanced network in Europe and delivering the highest-quality services to all our customers," COLT chief technology officer Alireza Mahmoodshahi said in a statement.
Deployed in just three months, the first phase of COLT's Infinera network connected eight major European cities in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, helping COLT meet the growing demands of its customers, including many of Europe's largest financial institutions, with a range of different highly reliable services including wavelengths and Ethernet at varying bit rates.
Through a combination of Infinera's "Just-in-TAM" fulfillment program and intelligent GMPLS control plane software, COLT can rapidly deliver a broad range of new services to their customers over pre-deployed 100Gbps DWDM increments. The use of Infinera's photonic integration technology also delivers significant savings in space and energy consumption.
In May, COLT added a dedicated managed services division to provide a wide range of on-demand services across Europe from cloud-based services to hosted applications.
In the same month, wholesale cross-border IP, voice and wholesale services provider TeliaSonera International Carrier (www.teliasoneraic.com), an affiliate of Scandinavia's largest telco, TeliaSonera (www.teliasonera.com), enlisted Infinera's help to upgrade its nationwide US network.
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