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The world’s fastest provisioned network: Infinera and DANTE establish Guinness World Record


Infinera’s mission is to build the world’s most innovative network solutions to help our customers win, and we do that by delivering on our founding vision of “an infinite pool of intelligent bandwidth.” A core tenet of the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network™ architecture is to allow customers to use time as a weapon to compete in the marketplace, enabled via super-channel technology.

On August 13, 2013, Infinera and DANTE showcased the fastest provisioned network in the world, as determined by the Guinness World Records, on the GÉANT backbone in Europe using a combination of super-channel technology and GMPLS automation. Guinness World Records verified the provisioning rate of 26.02 Tb/s per hour of optical capacity on a live network link between Amsterdam and Hamburg.