March 31, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Wholesale telecommunications provider RETN (retn.net) announced on Monday it has selected optical networking system provider Infinera’s (infinera.com) digital optical networking system. The network will modernize and upgrade RETN’s national backbone network, as well as construct its new Pan-European transmission ring.
The Infinera DTN system will enable RETN to increase total network capacity and provide its customers with a range of services including IP, MPLS, SDH and managed wavelength services. As a wholesale carrier focused on providing connectivity within Russia and between major international traffic exchange points, RETN provides data and IP-based services to more than 200 communication operators in Russia, Europe, North America and Asia.
Founded in 2002 by a group of alternative carriers in Russia, the RETN network has significantly expanded and now has on-network locations in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, New York, Washington, Helsinki, Prague, Kiev and Stockholm. Its Russian sites include Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Vladimir, Velikiy Novgorod, Tver, Yaroslavl, Tula, Lipeck, Belgorod and Voronezh. ”When the group of alternative operators set up RETN we knew that the key to successful IP services was to drive down the cost per bit,” says Dmitry Samarin, RETN’s general director. “DWDM plays a key role in our business strategy, and we have been searching for a DWDM supplier who could offer us the price, quality, scalability and ease of operations we need. Infinera is that company.”
RETN says it delivers high quality, competitive communications services to customers, which requires an underlying transmission network that can support these services without adding cost and complexity to the service provisioning process. RETN says Infinera’s bandwidth virtualization enabled the easy deployment and rapid speed of new service activation with the Infinera equipment.
Last month, Infinera announced that the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative enabled the company to expand its Infinera regional network.
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