Telstra Global and Infinera First to Demonstrate Soft Decision FEC Over 4,200km Hawaii to California Submarine Link

HONOLULU, HI — (Marketwire) — 01/21/13 — Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) today announced the first successful demonstration of a 100 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) optical signal enhanced with Soft Decision Forward Error Correction (SD-FEC) across Telstra Global-s dedicated fibre pair within Segment S5 of AAG Hawaii to California submarine cable. Infinera-s SD-FEC technology has the potential to double the transmission capacity of existing submarine cables. This trial demonstrates the power of SD-FEC in