KVH selects Infinera for Japanese network
OCTOBER 26, 2010 -- KVH, a provider of integrated communications and IT management systems in Japan, has selected an Infinera Digital Optical Network to provide speed, scalability, and low latency to its business customers.
Based in Tokyo, KVH offers managed services, data networking, internet access, and voice services to business customers with facility-based networks in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka. KVH also provides ultra low latency and proximity hosting solutions to the high-frequency trading community in Japan.
KVH’s customers are increasingly demanding multi-Gigabit connections for applications, such as high-frequency trading, real-time disaster recovery, and storage area network backup. KVH selected the Infinera DTN Digital ROADM system with integrated OTN switching for the scalability, speed, and flexibility of Infinera’s Digital Optical Networks architecture, reveals a representative.
With the Infinera DTN network, KVH can deliver services from 1 Gigabit/second (Gb/s) to 40Gb/s today and 100Gb/s in the future in a matter of days, rather than the weeks or months often required by traditional DWDM systems. Infinera systems powered by photonic integrated circuits are designed to deliver up to 8 Terabits per second of line-side capacity throughout the network.
Infinera’s Bandwidth Virtualization architecture enables the deployment of PIC-based network capacity to carry any available service between any points on the network without the optical impairments or constraints typical of all-optical ROADMs. With Infinera’s Digital ROADM, OTN switching and grooming is enabled at every network node.
KVH will deploy the Infinera DTN with new software-provisionable, multi-protocol Tributary Adapter Modules (TAMs) available in Release 6.0 to deliver 4Gb/s and 10Gb/s Fibre Channel services to support disaster recovery and storage backup services. These new products began shipping in Q3 of this year.
After the initial deployment in the Tokyo metropolitan area, KVH intends to deploy Infinera networks in Yokohama and Osaka.
“Our new Infinera network will support us in our goals of leading the market with new services for our business customers, especially customers in the financial services industry, to further strengthen our proposition in ultra-high-speed networks and ultra-low-latency network and cloud computing services,” says KVH vice president, Telco and International Business Unit, Dr. Zhongmin Guo.