Sunnyvale, Calif. – February 10, 2020, 8:00 a.m. ET – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) and
Lumentum Holdings Inc. (Lumentum), a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic
products, today announced a collaboration to bring to market XR optics-based networking solutions. XR optics enables
radically more efficient and cost-effective solutions to address the transport networking challenges operators face
in delivering new 5G, enhanced broadband, and cloud-based business services. Featuring the industry’s first
point-to-multipoint coherent optical aggregation technology, XR optics is designed to disrupt optical networking
economics by enabling new transport architectures.
XR optics is powered by Infinera’s innovative low-power DSP technology which leverages routable Nyquist
subcarriers to enable a single high-speed transceiver to simultaneously send and receive independent data streams
to/from numerous low-speed transceivers. Lumentum brings a history of successful coherent module development and
manufacturing expertise to help realize XR optics-based solutions. The partnership will result in the introduction
of a family of easily deployable, pluggable XR optics offerings applicable across a wide variety of market
applications.
“We are delighted to partner with Lumentum to launch this revolutionary point-to-multipoint solution designed
to help network operators benefit from unprecedented savings,” said Dr. Dave Welch, Founder and Chief
Innovation Officer, Infinera. “Lumentum has been an important team player, recognizing the value of XR optics
and committed to bringing this innovative solution to market.”
“Collaborating with Infinera leverages our deep experience in high-speed coherent components and pluggable
modules to bring an innovative solution like XR optics to market,” said Beck Mason, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of Lumentum’s Telecom Transmission Business. “The XR optics concept aligns with our core
strategy to provide scalable and flexible coherent optical network solutions that enable higher-speeds for
next-generation transport networks.”
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About Lumentum
Lumentum (Nasdaq: LITE) is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products
enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are
part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s lasers enable
advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities.
Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more
information, visit http://www.lumentum.com/
About Infinera
Infinera is a global supplier of innovative networking solutions that enable carriers, cloud operators, governments,
and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate service innovation, and automate network operations. The
Infinera end-to-end packet optical portfolio delivers industry-leading economics and performance in long-haul,
submarine, data center interconnect, and metro transport applications. To learn more about Infinera, visit www.infinera.com, follow us on Twitter @Infinera and read our latest blog
posts at www.infinera.com/blog.
Infinera and the Infinera logo are registered trademarks of Infinera Corporation.
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to those relating to XR
optics’ ability to enable new transport architectures and expectations about helping network operators realize
unprecedented savings. These statements are not guarantees of results and should not be considered as an indication
of future activity or future performance. Actual results may vary materially from these expectations as a result of
various risks and uncertainties. Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties
that affect Infinera’s business, is contained in the risk factors section and other sections of
Infinera’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Fiscal Quarter ended September 28, 2019 as filed with the SEC
on November 12, 2019, as well as any subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC. These reports are
available on Infinera’s website at www.infinera.com and the SEC’s
website at www.sec.gov. Infinera assumes no obligation to, and does not currently
intend to, update any such forward-looking statements.