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

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