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KVH has selected an Infinera Digital Optical Network to provide speed, scalability, and low latency to its business customers.

Based in Tokyo, KVH offers integrated communications and IT management solutions including managed services, data networking, internet access, and voice services to business customers with facility-based networks in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka. KVH is the leading provider of 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 including 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. 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, instead of the weeks or months typically required by traditional DWDM systems. Infinera systems powered by photonic integrated circuits are designed up to 8 Terabits per second of line-side capacity throughout the network. Infinera's Bandwidth Virtualization architecture enables the flexible deployment of PIC-based network capacity to carry any available service between any points on the network without any of 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.

With the Infinera network, KVH will also be able to deliver reduced latency across its network. The Infinera network delivers low latency with optics and electronics optimized to minimize non-essential processing of the signal as it travels through the network. 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," said KVH Vice President, Telco and International Business Unit, Dr. Zhongmin Guo.

"KVH is at the leading edge of important networking trends and serving some of the world's most demanding customers, and we are delighted to support KVH with an Infinera Digital Optical Network," said Infinera CEO Tom Fallon.

The Infinera DTN is the first optical networking system powered by large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Deployed worldwide in long-haul and metro core networks, the Infinera DTN combines high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service intelligence in a single platform.