Orange taps Infinera for European backbone

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Infinera and Orange have announced a partnership aimed at meeting the needs of the operator’s wholesale customers as bandwidth requirements continue to grow. The network deployment project will leverage Infinera’s latest generation of coherent engines and optical line system.

The companies recently completed a network in the U.S., and will now connect Paris, Marseille, and Bordeaux in France. Spanning 3,000 kilometres, the network includes multiple hub cities for international connectivity via submarine landing stations on France’s Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts and connection points for European data centres and additional Orange affiliates.

“We are excited about this new partnership with Infinera,” said Aurélien Vigano, VP of International Transmission Networks at Orange. “By partnering with Infinera, we are glad to add another key supplier to our network in order to reinforce our core backbone infrastructure across France to double our route between three strategic connectivity hubs, adding resilience and capacity to our network. With Infinera’s flexible GX platform, we will be able to seamlessly reinforce our network as new technologies become available, enabling us to keep pace with rapidly growing customer demands, while providing the best customer experience.”

“Infinera looks forward to our long-term partnership with Orange to deliver our GX Series solution on Orange’s new and existing optical transport routes, expanding Orange’s offerings to network operators and wholesale carriers, with resilient and reliable global connectivity capability,” said Nick Walden, senior vice president, Worldwide Sales, Infinera.

Orange currently has operations in 26 countries and business services in 220 countries and territories. Its international networks and infrastructure offer global connectivity via 40 submarine cable systems stretching 450,000 km, a system of 800 points of presence spanning over 100 countries, and 45,000 km of optical backbone terrestrial links across the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Africa.

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