Infinera Validates Intelligent Transport Network Portfolio Over Lumentum White Box Optical Line System

SUNNYVALE, CA and MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - August 17, 2016) - Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (Lumentum), a provider of innovative photonic products for cloud and networking applications, have successfully validated Infinera's portfolio of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) platforms over Lumentum's white box optical line system. Infinera now offers customers an open optical networking solution validated by interoperability testing between Lumentum's white box optical line system and Infinera's Intelligent Transport Networks.

The joint solution supports an ecosystem that enables open networks for data center interconnect (DCI) and metro/edge WDM transport. This announcement by Infinera and Lumentum marks the first multi-vendor driven demonstration of, and commitment to supporting, an open, interoperable and agile approach to the construction of transport networks. The combined power of Infinera's photonic integrated circuit (PIC) based platforms and Lumentum's white box line system offers network operators a scalable, programmable, and automated solution for provisioning bandwidth using open standardized interfaces.

Infinera and Lumentum are collaborating on open packet optical transport in the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an industry initiative co-founded by Facebook. TIP consists of multiple operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators, and others collaborating to develop new technologies and approaches to deploy the telecom network infrastructure.

"By validating the industry's first white box open line system interoperability with Lumentum, Infinera has demonstrated our commitment to delivering the innovative and open optical solutions that our customers need," said Tom Fallon, Infinera CEO. "Infinera's leadership in technology innovation with large-scale photonic integration is changing telecom networks. This announcement is yet another step in the path to delivering on our vision of enabling an infinite pool of intelligent bandwidth that the next communications infrastructure is built upon."

"Lumentum's award-winning optical white boxes are designed for simplicity and scalability, with open interfaces to enable Software Defined Networking (SDN)," said Alan Lowe, Lumentum CEO. "The demonstration of successful interoperability with Infinera validates the open system approach that should deliver the simplicity and service innovation many network operators desire."