Infinera Expands Cloud Xpress Family Of Metro Cloud Platforms - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Infinera Corp. (INFN), a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, Tuesday announced the expansion of the Cloud Xpress family of metro Cloud platforms. This release adds a new Cloud Xpress platform with 100 gigabit Ethernet client services in the same compact form factor along with enhanced functionality.

The Cloud Xpress family is designed specifically to address the needs of Cloud service providers, Internet content providers, Internet Exchange service providers, large enterprises and other large-scale datacenter operators. It first started shipping in December 2014.

The Cloud Xpress family leverages the oPIC-500 optical engine, Infinera's unique metro-optimized photonic integrated circuit, to deliver DWDM datacenter interconnect services up to 500 gigabits per second in a compact two rack unit chassis.

The new Cloud Xpress with 100 GbE extends the hyper-scale density, simplified operations and low power of the existing Cloud Xpress family that operators can use to easily deploy and scale their networks. The Cloud Xpress family now supports 10 GbE, 40 GbE and 100 GbE client-side interfaces to match customer specific requirements.