Infinera announced a major expansion of its Instant Bandwidth feature, making those features network wide and eventually paired with software-based network control.
“Capacity engineering is now a major challenge for network operators as demands for more agile connectivity increase,” said Andrew Schmitt, founder at Cignal AI. “Infinera’s Instant Network evolves its existing solutions to automate capacity engineering in a way that no other architecture can match by combining high-capacity integrated photonics and a unique software approach.”
The release was written up in LightReading with a quote:
Industry analyst Andrew Schmitt, founder at Cignal AI, agrees that Ciena’s pitch is focused on “seeking to extract maximum capacity from deployed assets that are bought and paid for.” And in terms of that bigger picture, Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum “also has a more overt way of expressing openness for controlling transponders/common equipment from multiple vendors, using Blue Planet. Infinera can do this with its software, but Blue Planet has a longer history of multi-vendor work,” notes Schmitt.