Interoute and Infinera win Wholesale Service Innovation award for high capacity European network

London, 8 June 2011 – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest next-generation network, today announced it has won a Wholesale Service Innovation award at the Global Telecoms Business Awards, held in central London on 7 June 2011. The Wholesale Service Innovation award was won in partnership with Infinera. Matthew Finnie, Interoute’s Chief Technology Officer, and Chris Champion, Infinera’s Vice President of Sales EMEA, received the award for the deployment of a high capacity Optical Transport Network (OTN) in Europe.

With Infinera’s Optical Transport Network (OTN) service at the core of its pan-European network, Interoute is able to deliver high capacity connections to multiple organisations on the same fibre, which can be turned up to 10G to meet customer demand. The partnership also allows for the delivery of clear channel wavelength links, especially useful for wholesale services needing to carry both bandwidth and management traffic. For wholesale services looking for a trusted partner that can offer digital visibility and high capacity network connections, Interoute removes the complexity of monitoring networks and delivering and maintaining high standards of managed services provisioning.

Interoute offers its wholesale customers a broad portfolio of managed or outsourced services, from IP Transit, VoIP, Colocation to Ethernet Services and Outsourced Network Services. Running these services across Europe’s largest next generation network, which is made up of 60,000km of lit fibre, connecting 100 cities in 29 countries and supported by eight Data Centres and 32 purpose-built collocation centres, Interoute can be responsive to the network needs of its wholesale customers.

“We are thrilled to have had our wholesale services recognised by this award,” said Matthew Finnie, CTO at Interoute. “Interoute’s network is used by all the major incumbents, and is increasingly attractive to operators in the service provider market looking to outsource part or all of their European networks. We continue to invest in the scale and reach of our European network, and Infinera’s technology plays a key part in allowing us to deliver cost effective, high capacity networks to our customers in very short time frames.”

In presenting the Awards, Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business, commented: “This is the fifth time we’ve run the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards and this year we saw more nominations, from a greater range of operators and vendors, than ever before.

“This is a sure sign the industry is working harder and harder to deliver exciting and innovative services to customers worldwide. Congratulations to all of this year’s award winners and to Infinera and Interoute for their wholesale high capacity network.”

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