Infinera and CenturyLink are delivering one terabit per second (1 Tbps) of super-channel transmission capacity to support the SCinet network at this week’s International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
CenturyLink currently offers 100 GbE Optical Wavelength Service to research institutions and laboratories, including those at more than 150 U.S. Department of Defense locations through a contract for the Defense Research and Engineering Network; financial and educational institutions; Internet content providers; and is delivering these Ethernet services to enterprise customers across the U.S. and in select international cities through a dedicated network connection.
“This terabit deployment demonstrates the scale, reliability and efficiency of our network and complements the 100 gigabit Ethernet services we have available to our customers today,” said Pieter Poll, senior vice president of national and international network planning at CenturyLink. “The delivery of terabit capacity on SCinet demonstrates the rapid provisioning of services and the ability to turn up terabit capacity in minutes.”
SCinet is one of the most powerful and advanced networks in the world, created each year for the Supercomputing Conference.
“This demonstration with CenturyLink illustrates the ability to rapidly scale bandwidth and provision services across an Intelligent Transport Network,” said Bob Jandro, Infinera senior vice president, worldwide sales. “Working with CenturyLink to dynamically deliver terabit capacity over their backbone emphasizes the value of our solutions in powering one of the largest networks in the U.S.”
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