Infinera has announced that BroadBand Tower, a Tokyo-based data centre and cloud services provider, deployed Infinera’s GX Series Compact Modular Platform to expand high-capacity, ultra-low-latency connectivity between its data centres across the Tokyo metropolitan area. The Infinera GX solution enables BroadBand Tower to meet increasing customer demand for cloud-based services connectivity in Japan and enhance service performance in the era of 5G.
With Digital Transformation as a strategic government priority and adoption of cloud computing growing in the country’s most populous metropolitan area, delivery of secure and scalable data centre and cloud services in Tokyo is increasingly critical to BroadBand Tower’s consumer and enterprise customers. Infinera’s GX solution enables BroadBand Tower to leverage a network transport solution that scales to terabit capacity in an easy-to-operate, highly compact form factor to deliver high optical performance on demand.
Hiroki Kabasawa, Member of the Board & Operating Officer, Cloud & Storage Engineering at BroadBand Tower, said: “Infinera’s GX solution is a leading optical transport solution, outperforming other solutions on the market for data centre interconnect to deliver the high capacity, security and reliability needed for data centres, making it the ideal solution for our expansion.”
