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Infinera’s Cloud Xpress hit the shelves

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New Delhi: Infinera, optical transmission equipment maker, has started shipping the Cloud Xpress, a family of metro optical platforms designed for network operators delivering cloud-based services to consumers and businesses worldwide.

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“Infinera has shipped the Cloud Xpress for production deployment as well as field trials to multiple customers. Cloud Xpress customers include Internet content providers, data center operators and large enterprises,” a statement said.

The company launched the Cloud Xpress this September as part of the Infinera Cloud Xpress family. The Cloud Xpress platform is optimized for the metro cloud, the transport network that provides data center connectivity within a metro area. The company claims that Cloud Xpress is designed to simplify the deployment of high-bandwidth connections while lowering the power and space required to scale metro cloud networks.

Keeping in mind the fact that large network operators are reporting a significant effect on incoming traffic, which is accelerating the deployment of high-capacity transport solutions into the metro cloud. The Cloud Xpress is designed specifically to address this need.

"As Cloud applications and services have grown in importance, the need for high-speed data center interconnection has grown at a very high rate," said Paul Parker-Johnson, practice lead, Cloud and virtual system infrastructures at ACG Research. "This has generated the need for new transport solutions with leaner form factors, higher densities and superior operating efficiencies. Cloud Xpress is well-positioned to participate in the emerging service provider data center interconnect transport market, which we expect to reach $4 bn by 2019."

"Meeting our commitment and shipping the Cloud Xpress in Q4 2014 is a key milestone for Infinera as we enter the metro cloud market," said Stuart Elby, senior vice president of cloud network strategy and technology at Infinera. "The Infinera Cloud Xpress marks a better way to bring innovative Intelligent Transport Network solutions to the metro Cloud market by delivering a purpose built product with the right form factor, space and power profile," Elby added.

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