SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN - News) announced today that Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR - News), the nation's largest provider of communications services focused on rural America, has deployed Infinera's ATN for its metro network. Infinera's ATN extends the benefits of Frontier's backbone network, which is based on Infinera's DTN platform. The new Infinera ATN metro platform adds scale and simplicity to Frontier's network, and the combined platforms enable Frontier to serve customers in 14 counties, spanning more than 640 fiber route miles in eastern Pennsylvania.

Frontier offers consumers, businesses and service providers a full range of communications services in Pennsylvania and 26 other states. Its Infinera network in Pennsylvania provides voice, business and wholesale bandwidth services to consumers and businesses and wholesale mobile backhaul for Tier 1 mobile operators.

"We are very pleased with the simplicity and efficiency of Infinera's DTN and ATN solutions," said Michael Golob, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology at Frontier. "The operational simplicity of these advanced platforms enabled us to turn up a new network across 14 locations in just three days. The efficiency of Infinera's solution has reduced certain off-net lease costs in our network by as much as 75 percent."

Infinera Corp. (Nasdaq: INFN)