Midcontinent Deploys Infinera Network for Upper Midwest

Supporting Triple-Play Network with Rapid Bandwidth Growth

SUNNYVALE, CA on 26 October 2010

Midcontinent Communications has deployed Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) to deliver the benefits of Digital Optical Networks to its cable television, high-speed Internet, and telecom customers in its Upper Midwest service area.

Midcontinent is one of the nation’s largest independent cable companies, with more than 250,000 customers in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. Midcontinent operates the largest and most resilient network in the region, a 4600 fiber-mile network delivering services to urban and rural areas within the three states.

Midcontinent has been experiencing rapid growth in traffic on its network due to a growing offering of high-definition television channels, accelerating demand for Internet bandwidth, the move to IP technology for carrying television services between head-ends, and a growing enterprise business. After examining a range of alternatives for bringing additional capacity to its optical network, Midcontinent deployed the Infinera DTN Digital ROADM. Midcontinent selected Infinera for the speed, flexibility, and simplicity of Infinera Digital Optical Networks. With the Infinera network, Midcontinent can turn up services, including Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit/second (Gb/s), and other services, quickly and easily. The ease and simplicity of deploying services and managing the Infinera network did not require an extensive investment in training or additional engineering resources. With Infinera’s unique Bandwidth Virtualization capability, optical capacity can be deployed between any points on the network to carry a wide range of services, as and when needed.

“We looked at a wide range of options and the Infinera technology was clearly superior,” said Midcontinent Vice-President of Technology Jon Pederson. “With our Internet traffic growing at 80% year-on-year and enterprise customers requesting services up to 10Gb/s, we could not afford to take months to add capacity. The Infinera system enables us to fulfill demands quickly and easily.”

The Infinera DTN is the first optical networking system powered by large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Deployed worldwide in long-haul and metro core networks, the Infinera DTN combines 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 customers 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 http://www.infinera.com/.

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