Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says it has surpassed one billion hours of failure-free operation in live networks worldwide. This figure is a cumulative total for all of the PICs that Infinera has shipped to customers since late 2004 in the Infinera DTN and DTN-X platforms. Infinera's PICs are deployed by 109 customers in 67 countries to light over one million kilometers of fibre and provide over three petabits per second of transmission capacity.
"This achievement is a very significant milestone for Infinera," said Rick Talbot, Current Analysis. "It demonstrates that photonic integration offers the same kind of benefits in reliability as silicon integration for electronics has demonstrated over the past 50 years. This reliability is critical as operators leverage PICs for cost-effective super-channel solutions to scale Intelligent Transport Networks."
Infinera announced last month that the Dell'Oro Group ranked the firm number one for the first quarter of 2013 in the global long-haul 100G wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) market.
