Colt Technology Services, a provider of network, voice, datacenter and managed Cloud services has selected Infinera DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform for the upgrade of its long distance network (LDN), known as the European Supercore. The European Supercore network supports national and international services between the European cities of London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Zurich, Vienna and Dublin.
Infinera DTN-X platform will enable Colt to support the demand for high capacity services in Europe more effectively. The solution supports up to eight terabits per second (Tb/s) of capacity and is expected to provide continued service and revenue growth in the high bandwidth services market. Infinera said that its Instant Bandwidth allows Colt to rapidly provision 40G and 100G services to its carrier and enterprise customers while providing highly reliable and scalable services.
According to Infinera, the DTN-X platform delivers capacity of 100 Gb/s coherent transmission today via 500 Gb/s super-channels, with a forward-scale design to support terabit super-channels in the future.
Zhongmin Guo, VP, Strategy & Business Development, Network Services, Colt Technology Services
Carriers, Cloud providers and enterprise customers know they can rely on Colt and our world class infrastructure to deliver and manage reliable services, leaving them free to focus on their priorities. This network upgrade is the latest in a series of investments in our network and will allow Colt to rapidly provision high-bandwidth services to our customer base in Europe. The Infinera platform allows us to easily scale the network as customer demand increases over time, giving Colt the flexibility needed to effectively support our customers.
Chris Champion, SVP, EMEA
We are pleased the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network is powering Colt's European Supercore network extending the benefits of LDN services between the key European cities. Infinera is committed to continuing to provide Colt with a solution that automates, converges and simplifies its optical transport network to reliably deliver advanced services to its customers.
