OTEGLOBE Selects Infinera for Pan-European Network

Transbalkan Network Links Greece with Central, Western Europe
SUNNYVALE, CA on 30 January 2009
OTEGLOBE, the international division of Greek incumbent national carrier OTE, has selected Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) for the scale, speed, and flexibility of Infinera’s Digital Optical Networks architecture.

OTEGLOBE launched its Transbalkan Network (TBN) last year to connect Greece and the Balkans with central Europe and western Europe. With a unique geographical position between the Middle East and Europe, OTEGLOBE needed a fully protected, highly reliable, next generation network to provide international wholesale telecom services to other telecom operators and large enterprises in southeastern Europe and beyond.

OTEGLOBE has been experiencing a rapid increase in IP traffic, driven mainly by European customers and a growing volume of Middle Eastern business as broadband penetration continues to increase rapidly in the region. OTEGLOBE selected Infinera for its 7,000 kilometer Transbalkan Network because Infinera’s digital architecture delivers the speed and scalability to accommodate rapid demand growth combined with the manageability and flexibility to accommodate many different services in a single platform. Infinera’s large-scale photonic integrated circuits enable the Infinera system to support large networks with a highly scalable solution while at the same time delivering economies in space, power, and cost consumption and ease of operation.

“Strategically, the Transbalkan Network is core to our data and capacity business, and is aiming to reinforce OTEGLOBE’s vision of essentially becoming the bridge connecting the Middle East with Europe through the Balkans. We needed to have a reliable, fully protected terrestrial network with the ability to turn up services quickly, as an alternative route to our existing sub-sea network through Italy,” said P. Bosdogianni, Technology Director of OTEGLOBE. “Our analysis showed that speed, flexibility and reliability came though integration. Infinera met our requirements and we were glad to select Infinera for the deployment of our Transbalkan Network,” she added.

“We are thrilled to support OTEGLOBE with a pan-European network, demonstrating our growing momentum with many of the world’s largest and best-known telecom carriers,” said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh.

The Infinera DTN is a Digital ROADM for long-haul and metro core networks, combining high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service intelligence in a single platform.

About Infinera

Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications carriers worldwide. Infinera’s systems are unique in their use of a breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Infinera’s systems and PIC technology are designed to provide optical networks with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations, faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.infinera.com.

About OTEGLOBE

OTEGLOBE, headquartered in Athens Greece, is a provider of international telecommunications wholesale services to high-capacity carriers and multi-site organizations in the broader SE European region. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of OTE (ASE: HTO, NYSE: OTE), the incumbent telecommunications provider in Greece with the strongest corporate presence in SE Europe, and has been operational since October 2000. OTEGLOBE has grown to a regional hub delivering a complete portfolio of voice, data/IP and capacity services over a robust infrastructure. For more information, please visit www.oteglobe.gr.