NETWORKS

"We are enthusiastic about Spread Networks' certification of Infinera as a network equipment provider for their new low latency fiber route," said Chris Liou, Vice President of Network Strategy at Infinera. "Spread Networks certified Infinera for its market-leading low-latency product, its commitment to ensuring the best customer experience through an extensive managed network service and support product, and its demonstrated focus on reliability and quality."

"We are pleased to have Infinera as a certified optical equipment provider on our network," said David Barksdale, CEO of Spread Networks. "Infinera has demonstrated that they are capable of providing a solution that meets our customers' high expectations for low latency and high quality service and support."

Infinera is the number one provider in the North American long-haul optical network market, according to Dell'Oro Group, with a strong history of technology innovation. When speed matters, Infinera technology offers financial institutions a flexible, high-performance, low-latency platform that is ideal for high frequency trading applications. Infinera's managed network services provide financial institutions with the unique benefits of a private optical network, such as guaranteed 24-hour circuit turn-up, 30 minute mean-time-to-repair, and 24x7x365 monitoring and maintenance.

The Infinera low latency solution has been designed around several key innovations to speed information transmission, including

• Ultra-fast Transponders - A transponder serves as the on-ramp to an optical network and is a source of network latency. Infinera's new low-latency transponders add as little as 10 nanoseconds to a data stream. Infinera believes this to be 5-10x faster than competitors advertise for their transponders.

• Latency-optimized Optical Amplifiers - Infinera's low latency solution includes new Raman optical amplifiers designed to streamline the propagation of light across long haul networks. These new amplifiers reduce latency by more than 60% compared to conventional amplifiers.

• Low Latency Dispersion Compensation - Fiber Bragg Grating dispersion compensation eliminate fiber length and thus latency. The use of Fiber Bragg Gratings between New York and Chicago can save 200 to 1000 microseconds compared to a network with conventional dispersion compensation coils, depending on fiber type.

• Flexible Forward Error Correction (FEC) modes - Infinera product enhancements include clear-channel options for Ethernet services to eliminate time consuming digital processing such as FEC. Other enhancements remove extraneous digital encapsulation to enable streamlined Ethernet transport over light.

With Infinera's latest low latency technologies and optical networking solution, financial institutions can minimize the most significant sources of latency in the optical transmission layer, and accelerate the high performance network underlying their trading platforms.

Spread Networks Spread Networks sets a new standard for trading latency. Built from the ground up, this flagship product offers a fresh supply of dark fiber on the shortest route between New York and Chicago, bringing round-trip latency under 13.33ms. Without the drag of traditional telecommunications offerings, Spread Networks provides its customers with a private network to achieve a 'clean speed' allowing data to run as close as possible to the true speed of light through fiber.

Exhibiting at the SIFMA Financial Services Expo in NYC from June 22-24, Infinera representatives will be on hand to provide an explanation of the features and capabilities of Infinera's low latency solution at Booth #2105. Press and analysts are invited to arrange a meeting by contacting the Infinera representatives at events@infinera.com.