Infinera sets Guinness record with DANTE
Infinera and DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) have jointly announced that they have achieved a Guinness World Record for the fastest rate of multi-Terabit optical capacity across the GÉANT Network.
Infinera and DANTE were able to install and activate eight Terabits per second (Tb/s) of long haul super-channel optical capacity, enough capacity to simultaneously stream 1.6 million high-definition movies in each direction. This capacity was activated across the GÉANT production network in 19 minutes and 1 second after plugging in the first line card.
The record was set using an Infinera Intelligent Transport Network, featuring the DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform, deployed on the GÉANT backbone.
Working with Infinera to achieve the Guinness World Record for fastest provisioning of long-haul transmission capacity on a live network is consistent with our day-to-day experience operating an Intelligent Transport Network. Infinera provides the easy-to-deploy multi-Terabit capacity we need to rapidly scale GÉANT, Europe’s largest research and education network.” said Michael Enrico, CTO of DANTE.
Geoff Bennett, Director of Solutions and Technology Marketing at Infinera stated, “We know that service providers are facing increasing capacity demands at a multi-Terabit scale. Our ability to turn up a full eight Tb/s of capacity in less than 20 minutes clearly demonstrates the superiority of the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network in meeting those challenges, allowing service providers to use time as a weapon to increase revenue.”
The test was completed using the Infinera DTN-X platform which converges five Terabits of non-blocking OTN switching into the same platform, resulting in much more efficient network utilization when compared to conventional WDM architectures.
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