[June 17, 2013] Infinera photonic integrated circuits failure free for over 1 billion hours Tweet Jun 17, 2013 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) reported its photonic integrated circuits (PICs) recently surpassed one billion hours of failure-free operation in live networks worldwide. This achievement underscores the reliability of Infinera's PICs and the key role they play in creating Intelligent Transport Networks. This figure is a cumulative total for all of the PICs that Infinera has shipped to customers since late 2004 in the Infinera DTN and DTN-X platforms. PICs are deployed by 109 customers in 67 countries around the world to light over onem kilometers of fibre and provide over three petabits per second of transmission capacity. Infinera is a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks. Intelligent Transport Networks help carriers exploit the increasing demand for cloud-based services and data centre connectivity as they advance into the Terabit Era. Find more at www.infinera.com. Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]