Luxembourg Telecom Selects MRV LambdaDriver to Build Country’s First WDM-Based High-Speed Datacenter Network

MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC., today announced that Luxembourg Telecom has chosen the MRV LambdaDriver™ wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical transport system to build a high-speed fiber optic ring network to connect all of its data centers in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg Telecom the country’s first provider of countrywide data center interconnect services at speeds up to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps). MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading supplier of optical communication systems and related networking equipment, and services for high-speed carrier and enterprise networks and specialized aerospace, defense and other communications networks.

Luxembourg Telecom is a private, alternative telecom operator for businesses throughout the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The operator’s services include data center access, wide area network (WAN) services, Web hosting, data housing and managed services.

The carrier combined its Luxembourg Telecom Luxconnect fiber-optic infrastructure with MRV’s LambdaDriver WDM system, to build a low-latency, energy efficient and resilient fiber-optic ring to provide high-speed connections between its customers and its data center facilities located throughout southern and central Luxembourg, including Luxembourg, Bettembourg, Betzdorf, Contern, Kayl, Kircherg, Munsbach, Windhof and Roost.

"To be competitive, Luxembourg Telecom needed to set itself apart by building the country’s first ultra-low latency and high reliability data center network that also delivered a high level of configurability, and cost-effectiveness,” said Noam Lotan, chief executive officer of MRV Communications. "I’m happy they chose LambdaDriver as the foundation of this network and MRV as a strategic partner.”

"MRV’s leadership in this market gave us the confidence that our fiber ring would have the flexibility and reliability that our customers demand,” said Vincent Nicolay, sales director at Luxembourg Telecom. "We’re pleased to be working with MRV and look forward to collaborating with the company on future implementations.”

With the new network in place, Luxembourg Telecom is reducing connectivity costs for its customers located outside Luxembourg. Additionally, Luxembourg Telecom’s network operation center provides 24/7 monitoring of its services, allowing the operator to guarantee its customers’ service level agreements for availability and performance.

About MRV's LambdaDriver Platforms

MRV’s LambdaDriver is the company’s premiere optical transport system for building high-performance enterprise access, metropolitan carrier and long haul transport networks. The LambdaDriver is a multi-functional, compact, modular WDM system that supports both coarse wavelength division multiplexing and dense wavelength division multiplexing technology. LambdaDriver also serves as a packet optical transport system by integrating Carrier Ethernet connection-oriented services and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) for automated optical mesh topologies with wavelength-level switching. The LambdaDriver series can support data rates from 8 Mbps up to 40 Gbps with seamless future upgrades to 100 Gbps.

About MRV Communications, Inc.

MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of packet switching, packet optical (P-OTS), physical layer and out-of-band networking equipment, services and optical components for high-speed carrier and enterprise networks and specialized aerospace, defense and other communications networks. Through its wholly owned SourcePhotonics, Inc. subsidiary, the company provides optical communications components for carrier access and fiber-to-the-premises applications. MRV markets and sells its products worldwide, with operations in Europe that provide network system design and integration. For more information please call (978) 431-5011 or visit our websites at www.mrv.com and www.sourcephotonics.com.