SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 09/21/15 — Infinera, provider of , announced the appointment of Rajal M. Patel to the board of directors of Infinera, effective September 17, 2015.Mr. Patel brings more than 20 years of experience in scaling cloud infrastructure for consumer Internet, SaaS and other service providers globally. Since March 2014, Mr. Patel has served as the head of cloud engineering at Pinterest. Prior to Pinterest, Mr. Patel served as senior vice president for technical operati
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 09/09/15 — (NEC) (TSE: 6701), together with Juniper Networks and Infinera, today announced that NEC has signed a global framework agreement with the Telenor Group, a Norway-based worldwide telecommunications operator. With this new contract, NEC becomes an end-to-end, turnkey solution provider for Telenor. As the system integrator, NEC will supply all major aspects of the operator–s transport network, including microwave, IP routers and optical and will mana
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 09/01/15 — Infinera, provider of , announced Nick Walden as senior vice president of sales, EMEA with responsibility for leading Infinera–s sales activities in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) markets.Mr. Walden comes with 20 years of industry insight and experience gained through a range of leadership positions. Regarded as a highly experienced and collaborative sales and business leader, Mr. Walden has achieved transformational business outcomes w
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 08/24/15 — Infinera, provider of , announced the rapid recovery of network capacity on the submarine optical fiber cable connecting Australia, Guam and Japan, managed by Australia Japan Cable (AJC). AJC recently experienced a network path failure following a subsea cable fault in 7,000 meters to 8,000 meters water depth.The Infinera team and AJC rerouted over 400 gigabit per second (Gb/s) of traffic from the impacted AJC section to alternate paths on the AJC o
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 08/14/15 — Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), provider of , announced that its offer to acquire Transmode (OMX: TRMO) has been accepted by shareholders representing approximately 95.8 percent of the outstanding shares and votes in Transmode. The transaction is now slated to close on or around August 20, 2015. Of the shares tendered, approximately 63 percent were tendered under the cash and stock mix alternative, and approximately 37 percent were tendered under the all-c
LITTLE ROCK, AR and SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 08/12/15 — Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications, and Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, have been deploying the Infinera DTN-X platform as a part of Windstream–s network expansion strategy.Windstream Carrier Solutions provides Wave transport services up to 100G across the United States, leveraging Windstream–s DWDM Long-Haul Core Network. Carriers, Content/Over t
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/22/15 — Infinera Corporation (NASDAQ: INFN), provider of , today released financial results for the second quarter of 2015 ended June 27, 2015.Revenue for the quarter was $207.3 million compared to $186.9 million in the first quarter of 2015 and $165.4 million in the second quarter of 2014.GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 46.7% compared to 47.2% in the first quarter of 2015 and 42.5% in the second quarter of 2014. GAAP operating margin for the quarter
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/21/15 — Infinera, provider of , announced that Equinix has selected the Infinera to interconnect its Hong Kong datacenters. The Infinera Cloud Xpress offers Equinix a platform with hyper-scale density, operational simplicity and low power consumption.Equinix is a global interconnection and datacenter company, operating International Business Exchange (IBX®) datacenters in 33 markets across 15 countries in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. Th
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 06/24/15 — Infinera, provider of , announced that IHS, formerly Infonetics Research, named Infinera as a leader among the top optical network hardware vendors in the recently published 2015 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard. In the report, Infinera is described as the –ne plus ultra of the rapidly growing Internet content provider and datacenter interconnect market.– The report further highlights Infinera as a leader not because of size but because o
SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 06/24/15 — Infinera Corporation (NASDAQ: INFN) today announced that it will release its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 ended June 27, 2015, after the close of market on NASDAQ on Wednesday, July 22, 2015.An investment community conference call to discuss these results and Infinera–s outlook will be held the same day at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT and will be accessible live and on an archived basis as follows:Second Quarter 2015 Financi
