Infinera GX Collection Powers Paratus Superhighway Community Between Johannesburg and Europe

Infinera GX Collection Powers Paratus Superhighway Community Between Johannesburg and Europe

San Jose, Calif. – April 18, 2024 – Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) introduced as we speak that Paratus Group, a number one community supplier in Africa, deployed Infinera’s GX Collection and FlexILS options to supply the lowest-latency categorical route between Johannesburg and Lisbon, delivering companies with a latency of 123 milliseconds and supporting wavelengths as much as 800G. Infinera’s options have been deployed on the not too long ago accomplished 1,890-km Paratus categorical fiber hyperlink between Johannesburg and Europe, through Botswana to Swakopmund, the place it connects with the Equiano subsea cable from Namibia to Lisbon and on to London and the remainder of Europe.

Paratus’ new superhighway gives community operators an unparalleled alternative for capability and redundancy the place resilience and high-speed efficiency are required. This ensures seamless information stream, environment friendly communications, and uninterrupted companies. Paratus is the touchdown companion for the Equiano subsea cable, which gives numerous routing and geographically separated paths. Deploying Infinera’s options mitigates doable cable station faults and ensures the community stays intact and absolutely useful across the clock.

“As a steadfast companion on the bottom in Africa, Paratus gives unrivalled wholesale capability options for community operators, as exemplified by our superior expertise from Infinera, our infrastructure, and our dedication to providing redundancy,” mentioned Martin Cox, Paratus Group Chief Business Officer.

“Our continuous funding in creating Africa’s high quality community is now prolonged with the stay launch of this superhighway powered by Infinera’s industry-leading expertise. That is an thrilling time for community operators in South Africa as a result of they will now benefit from the quickest and most sturdy connectivity from Africa to Europe,” mentioned CEO of Paratus Group, Schalk Erasmus.

“Deploying Infinera’s GX networking answer permits Paratus to leverage the {industry}’s highest-capacity answer to supply its prospects high-performance companies whereas minimizing latency and maximizing reliability,” mentioned Nick Walden, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Gross sales, Infinera. “We’re happy to work with Paratus to launch these new companies to the area.”

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This press launch accommodates forward-looking statements, together with however not restricted to the operational and efficiency advantages of Infinera’s GX Collection and FlexILS options. These statements should not ensures of outcomes and shouldn’t be thought-about as a sign of future exercise or future efficiency. Precise outcomes might fluctuate materially from these expectations because of numerous dangers and uncertainties. Details about these dangers and uncertainties, and different dangers and uncertainties that have an effect on Infinera’s enterprise, is contained within the threat elements part and different sections of Infinera’s Quarterly Report on Type 10-Q for the Fiscal Quarter ended September 30, 2023 as filed with the SEC on February 29, 2024, in addition to any subsequent stories filed with or furnished to the SEC. These stories can be found on Infinera’s web site at http://www.infinera.com and the SEC’s web site at http://www.sec.gov. Ahead-looking statements embody statements concerning our expectations, beliefs, intentions, or methods and will be recognized by phrases reminiscent of “anticipate,” “imagine,” “might,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “might,” “ought to,” “will,” and “would” or related phrases. Infinera assumes no obligation to, and doesn’t at present intend to, replace any such forward-looking statements.