Telia Carrier now utilizes an end-to-end Infinera Intelligent Transport Network, spanning long-haul to metropolitan areas, as the foundation of its leading network infrastructure, built from the ground up. Leveraging Infinera's leading optical solutions, Telia Carrier has rapidly expanded globally and was recently recognized as the number one Internet Protocol (IP) Transit provider in the U.S. in Dyn's 2015 "Baker's Dozen" report. With its new 100G metro capabilities and the upgrades to the second "Pacific Coast Highway" route, Telia Carrier eliminates capacity availability uncertainty for its partners and customers, fulfilling its promise to become "The Backbone of Your Business.".
Infinera has a history of supporting Telia Carrier with early-stage networks. Telia Carrier was the first network operator in North America to deploy the DTN-X family with instant bandwidth and the first network operator to test a terabit super-channel in a live network. Now, Telia Carrier is the first vendor announced to expand a DTN-X network nationwide by deploying Infinera's TM Series for 100G metro at scale. Infinera's TM Series will provide Telia Carrier's metro network with a 100G packet optical platform with multi-service capabilities, including the ability to support MEF 2.0 certified Ethernet services, mobile fronthaul, wholesale broadband, and metro aggregation. The solution offers a unified network management layer across DTN-X and the TM Series, along with software-defined networking (SDN) application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable rapid service.
"The West Coast is a critical network segment in the US, and we're adding an additional route to further enhance the customer experience in the region. Infinera's TM series makes the economics of 100G work. This metro solution brings the benefits of a space-saving, low-power integrated design. More and more of our customers are doing the math and realizing that now is the time to invest in 100G. And thanks to Infinera, we're ready for them," says Mattias Fridström, Chief Technology Officer at Telia Carrier.
"Telia Carrier now has an end-to-end Infinera unified transport network that is optimized for scale, operational simplicity, and to accelerate the delivery of network services to Telia Carrier customers," said Bob Jandro, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Infinera. "Expanding the deployment of Infinera end-to-end solutions by Telia Carrier underscores the value we bring to our customers worldwide."
