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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- After passing extensive conformance and interoperability tests with the US Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Interoperability Test Command (jitc.fhu.disa.mil), Infinera DTN, from optical networking systems provider Infinera (www.infinera.com), has been approved for Department of Defense (www.defense.gov) network deployments.
The Infinera DTN is a digital ROADM for long-haul and metro core networks, combining high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service intelligence in a single platform. According to Infinera's Monday announcement, it is the first DWDM system to be certified by JITC for carrying 40 Gigabit/second services, giving it the potential to be deployed with the DoD and related government agencies. Infinera's unique bandwidth virtualization makes it possible to carry 40 Gb/s services over any optical infrastructure capable of transporting 10 Gb/s services today.
JITC testing provides a thorough assessment of a product's ability to provide security, protocol compliance, stability, scalability, interoperability, and management for potential DoD network configurations. The Infinera DTN was tested and certified as a "DISN Terrestrial Transport" device in accordance with JITC's "Unified Capabilities Requirements 2008" and has now achieved "Unified Capabilities Approved Products List" status.
The Infinera DTN was installed and tested in the JITC Advanced Technologies Testbed at Indian Head, Maryland. The JITC tests replicated potential DoD network configurations, and tests confirmed the Infinera DTN's capability to interoperate within various configurations and protect sensitive information.
The JITC approval is Infinera's latest of many certifications, which include approval by the US Army Test Integration Center at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, as well as the US Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Program for deployment by telecom companies using USDA Rural Utilities Service funding to build networks. The Infinera DTN has been deployed in public sector networks including the New Mexico state network, and the Internet2 backbone network, the world's largest research network.
Based on large-scale photonic integration, the Infinera DTN can deliver 100 Gb/s of optical capacity on a pair of photonic integrated circuits, with scalability, flexibility and high security required by government networks. Infinera optical systems are designed to scale to a potential 8 Terabits/second capacity on a single fiber.
Last month, Infinera introduced a new ATN metro wavelength division multiplexed edge platform, which provides a seamless end-to-end managed wavelength-division multiplexing solution with the benefits of the company's optical networks architecture and submarine connectivity.
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