Infinera Helps BVU Bring Broadband to Bristol, Virginia

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 28, 2009) - Bristol Virginia Utilities (BVU) has selected Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) for the metro optical network that supports its broadband service for Bristol Virginia, Abingdon, and surrounding areas in southwest Virginia. BVU is one of the few public utilities in the U.S. that has built a fiber-to-the-premises network offering the triple-play of telephone, television, and broadband Internet services. The city of Bristol, Virginia was recently named one of the Top Seven "most intelligent communities" worldwide by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), an independent think tank that studies economic and social developments for the 21st century.

BVU is a 64-year-old, city-owned utility that provides electricity, water, fiber-optic broadband services, to a 125 square mile area including the city of Bristol. It began to offer a fiber-based triple-play package in 2003, in order to provide all its residents with a high-speed broadband option, and to use advanced communications services to lure more industry to the region. The network includes a 250 mile fiber backbone. Consumers can choose from a menu of high-speed broadband services that range from 2 Megabits per second (Mbps) up to 16 Mbps. Business customers can purchase multi-Gigabit services including Internet, transparent LAN, and high capacity local access loops.

BVU selected Infinera for the speed, flexibility, and scalability of Infinera's digital architecture. With consistent bandwidth growth, BVU needed a system that could respond quickly to spikes in demand and customer growth. Infinera's digital architecture, based on Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs), enables the network to add large chunks of capacity quickly and easily. The operating costs of the Infinera network are low because Infinera's IQ™ network operating system uses advanced software intelligence to configure and provision wavelengths and set up circuits. In addition, Infinera's Digital ROADM architecture enables the network to be reconfigured in software in response to changing traffic patterns. Traditional all-optical ROADMs often require manual reconfiguration or equipment changes ("truck rolls") to support a new configuration.

"Infinera's simplicity, flexibility, and raw capacity have played an important role in the services we offer our customers. It has been very valuable in helping us deliver services to existing commercial customers, and compete effectively for economic development projects within the state of Virginia," said Mark Lane, BVU's Chief Technical Officer.

A Model of Broadband in a Small City

Bristol is a city of 17,500 people in the southwestern corner of Virginia and hundreds of miles from major metropolitan areas. BVU's success in bringing broadband to a small city in rural Virginia, even before the passage of the federal broadband stimulus program, illustrates how Infinera's breakthrough technology will be able to help realize the objectives of President Obama's broadband stimulus program quickly and affordably. Infinera's photonic integration and intelligent software make it possible to build more quickly than ever scalable, high-capacity broadband networks in unserved and underserved parts of the U.S.

BVU has been recognized as a model for a successful broadband network with numerous awards. Awards received by BVU or the city of Bristol include the 2008 National League of Cities Gold Award for Municipal Excellence, the Virginia Governor's Technology Award (2008), and the Smart Community Award (2008) from Last Mile magazine. The Intelligent Communities Forum said that in choosing its finalists, it looked for communities that demonstrated innovation, ingenuity, and a dedication to putting people first and building a solid "talent base" within the community.

"BVU is an internationally-recognized example of broadband as it ought to be," said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. "Residents and businesses in the Bristol area have affordable, high-speed broadband services, excellent customer service, and a choice of providers. We are pleased to support BVU with an Infinera Digital Optical Network. And we look forward to supporting other providers as they build out broadband networks under the auspices of the federal broadband stimulus program."

The Infinera DTN is the first optical networking system powered by 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.

About Infinera

Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications carriers worldwide. Infinera's systems are unique in their use of a breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Infinera's systems and PIC technology are designed to provide customers with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations, faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services without reengineering their optical infrastructure. For more information, please visit http://www.infinera.com/.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on information available to Infinera as of the date hereof; and actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied, due to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Infinera's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, including that Infinera's digital architecture enables the network to add large chunks of capacity quickly and easily; that the operating costs of the Infinera network are low because Infinera's IQ™ network operating system uses advanced software intelligence to configure and provision wavelengths and set up circuits; that Infinera's Digital ROADM architecture enables the network to be reconfigured in software in response to changing traffic patterns; that traditional all-optical ROADMs often require manual reconfiguration or equipment changes ("truck rolls") to support a new configuration; and that Infinera's photonic integration and intelligent software make it possible to build more quickly than ever scalable, high-capacity broadband networks in unserved and underserved parts of the U.S. Such forward-looking statements can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipated," "believed," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include aggressive business tactics by our competitors, our dependence on a single product, our ability to protect our intellectual property, claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property, our manufacturing process is very complex, product performance problems we may encounter, our dependence on sole or limited source suppliers, our ability to respond to rapid technological changes, our ability to maintain effective internal controls, the ability of our contract manufacturers to perform as we expect, a new technology being developed that replaces the PIC as the dominant technology in optical networks, general political, economic and market conditions and events, including war, conflict or acts of terrorism; and other risks that may impact Infinera's business are set forth in our annual report Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 17, 2009, as well as subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and we disclaim any obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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