TeliaSonera International Carrier taps DTN-X with Infinera Instant Bandwidth delivering 100G capacity

Telecom Lead Europe: TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC) has selected DTN-X with Infinera Instant Bandwidth delivering 100 Gigabits per second (100G) of optical transport capacity via software control across its North American network.

The DTN-X platform enables TSIC to offer its customers up to 100G bandwidth-on-demand and lower its operational costs.

Erik Hallberg, President of TeliaSonera International Carrier

“Infinera’s DTN-X with Instant Bandwidth gives us a competitive edge enabling significantly shorter customer delivery times for 100G services and allows us to offer one of the most advanced and scalable networks in North America,” said Erik Hallberg, President of TeliaSonera International Carrier.

TeliaSonera International Carrier’s customers include content providers and network operators globally for IP, DWDM, Ethernet, voice and specialized mobile services. In North America, its 18,000 km fiber network, reaching 35 PoPs in 23 cities, is the first to deploy the DTN-X with Instant Bandwidth.

“The selection of the DTN-X with Instant Bandwidth from TeliaSonera International Carrier demonstrates the strength of the relationship that began with our DTN in the 10G era and is now entering the 100G era with the DTN-X,” said Chris Champion, Infinera Vice President, EMEA sales.

Instant Bandwidth allows network operators to deploy bandwidth in 100 Gigabits per second (100G) increments without the typical long wait times associated with provisioning equipment, as well as engineering and activating services.

With Infinera’s Instant Bandwidth, network operators can provision an additional 100G of network capacity with one-click to achieve a success based business model. Instant Bandwidth enables service providers to differentiate their services by shortening provisioning times and accelerating service delivery while simultaneously reducing time to revenue.

“Interest in 100G is broad-based and deployments are outpacing our market projections,” said Dana Cooperson, VP Network Infrastructure at Ovum. “Operators need a way to keep pace with uncertain network traffic growth without under or over provisioning infrastructure capacity. Network operators want to deploy capacity at 100G incrementally while minimizing and balancing capex and opex.”

Infinera started shipping the DTN-X platform earlier this year and the Instant Bandwidth solution for it is now available.

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