Infinera and American Tower announce first for Latin America

摘要

Infinera, a supplier of networking solutions, and American Tower, a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multi-tenant communications real estate, have announced the successful completion of the first point-to-multipoint coherent optical transmission in a carrier network environment in Latin America. This field trial was conducted with Infinera's XR optics technology over American Tower's passive optical network (PON) in Colombia. The trial demonstrated XR optics' compatibility with existing Gigabit PON (GPON) traffic over a single-fiber PON deployment in a metro regional area. The partners say that the proof of concept shows American Tower's ability to take advantage of the transformative value that XR optics can provide in the company's existing network infrastructure. With over 400Gb of available capacity per leaf, Infinera says XR optics is designed to enable network operators like American Tower to dramatically simplify their network architectures and significantly reduce capex and opex costs while enhancing network scalability.