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[Lauren Rotman <>]

Networking Leaders Demonstrate 100 Gigabit per Second Throughput
Infinera, Internet2, Juniper Networks and Level 3 Demonstrate 100Gbps  
Data Transport Between Seattle and SC09 Show Floor in Portland

PORTLAND, Ore.--November 16, 2009 --At the SC09 Conference, a group of  
leaders in the networking industry announced a key milestone in the  
migration to 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology by successfully  
demonstrating a multivendor 100Gbps routing and optical network. In  
this demonstration, 100Gbps of test data (generated by an Ixia test  
set) was transmitted from Portland to Seattle through a single slot on  
the Juniper Networks(R) T1600 Series Core Router, populated with a new  
10x10GbE physical interface card (announced separately by Juniper) via  
an Infinera optical system, over Level 3 and Internet2’s nationwide  
fiber-optic network. The data was then looped back to Juniper’s T1600  
Series Core Router in Juniper’s booth on the SC09 show floor in  
Portland.

Also being demonstrated at SC09 is the industry’s first 802.3ba  
compliant 100GbE router interface in Juniper’s booth 1448. These  
100Gbps demonstrations represent the continued advances made by the  
joint initiative — announced last year at SC08 — between the U.S.  
Dept. of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Internet2,  
Infinera, Juniper Networks and Level 3 Communications. The five  
organizations announced an initiative to work together to develop and  
deploy 100GbE services with the ultimate goal of implementing a fully- 
operational 100GbE network.

ESnet and Internet2 have both begun aggressive projects to pursue  
deployment of testbeds and eventual production deployment of 100GbE to  
support the growing data demands of scientific research. With these  
industry-leading partners, both Internet2 and ESnet are continuing to  
pursue their vision for 100GbE-capable research and education (R&E)  
networks.

Juniper’s T1600 will support the industry’s first 802.3ba compliant  
100GbE router interface, which is also being demonstrated in Juniper’s  
booth 1448. In conjunction with the TX Matrix Plus, the T1600 is  
designed to scale up to 25 terabits per second (Tbps) of total capacity.

“With ‘Big Science’ projects like the Large Hadron Collider expected  
to be generating data flows of 100Gbps as soon as 2010, it’s clear  
that the world’s scientific research and education community needs to  
move beyond groups of 10Gbps waves and be ready with 100GbE solutions  
in the very near term,” said Kanaiya Vasani, vice president of product  
management, High-End Systems Business Unit, Juniper Networks. “As  
trends such as cloud computing and video continue to drive network  
traffic in all other industry and consumer sectors, service providers  
and other large network operators will require a new generation of  
scale—100 Gigabit Ethernet meets this need.”

Internet2, in partnership with Level 3, operates an advanced  
nationwide network serving the U.S. research and education community,  
designed to seamlessly add capacity as its members’ needs evolve.  
Through a unique and deep partnership, ESnet shares control and  
operation of the Internet2 optical infrastructure. Both networks have  
already experienced rapid growth as global collaborations continue to  
expand to nearly every research discipline, making the path towards  
100GbE a natural next step.

“Just a year after our partners agreed to the challenge of building a  
100GbE interoperable prototype, we are very pleased by the progress  
made with our collaborators on the path toward 100 Gigabit Ethernet  
that doesn’t just demonstrate optics or switching, but combines the  
two in to a working IP and MPLS backbone for advanced science,” said  
Rob Vietzke, Internet2 executive director of Network Services. “Many  
researchers in our community are already pushing the limits of 10Gbps  
technology with sustained flows reaching over 9Gbps for an individual  
researcher’s workstation. Internet2 is committed to delivering  
capabilities to our members to ensure that our network meets their  
scientific requirements today and provides the right platform to  
support their science innovations well into the future. 100GbE is part  
of that future.”

“Level 3 continues to work with leaders in the industry to drive  
toward a commercially viable 100GbE service architecture,” said Jack  
Waters, chief technology officer for Level 3. “100 Gigabit Ethernet  
offers the promise of superior economics with greater network  
performance and scale to support our customers as they face ongoing  
bandwidth demand growth.”

Infinera has been a leader in the move to 100GbE for several years.  
Infinera’s photonic integrated circuits (PICs) integrate 100Gbps of  
optical capacity on a pair of chips and Infinera’s Bandwidth  
Virtualization architecture is designed to enable a wide range of  
services, including future 100GbE services, to be transported over  
today’s optical infrastructure with speed and flexibility. At SC09,  
Infinera is demonstrating a pre-production 100 Gigabit Ethernet  
Module, designed to deliver 100GbE services in today’s Infinera DTN.  
Infinera’s next-generation PICs, designed with capacity of 400Gbps on  
a pair of chips, will enable significant increase in the capacity and  
scalability of optical networks.

“The research and education community is leading the industry in terms  
of applications that require large streams of data and highly scalable  
networks,” commented Infinera Chief Technology Officer Drew Perkins.  
“With our digital architecture based on photonic integrated circuits,  
Infinera is uniquely positioned to deliver scalable, flexible,  
intelligent optical networks that can deliver and manage all that  
bandwidth easily and cost-effectively.”

An Ixia test platform was used to generate and capture 100Gbps of test  
traffic. Ixia has been a leader in the development of 40Gbps and  
100Gbps Ethernet standards, working closely with the IEEE 802.3ba task  
force. Ixia has been an active development partner, helping to bring  
Juniper’s 100Gbps line card to market. Ixia’s “K2” 100Gbps load module  
is used as a reference implementation to ensure that Juniper’s  
interface conforms to industry standards and performs at line rate.

About 100 Gigabit Ethernet
100GbE is the next generation of Ethernet technology, and provides a  
10x increase in scale over the 10GbE technologies most prevalent in  
today’s networks. The higher speed is necessitated by growing network  
traffic, and will enable service providers and R&E networks to  
efficiently and cost-effectively support trends such as cloud  
computing, mega-data centers and data-intensive research projects.  
Internet2, for example, has seen data traffic on its network grow by  
3,300% in ten years, and 100GbE will enable them to continue to meet  
the needs of its member community. The IEEE is currently finalizing  
the 100GbE standard, with ratification targeted for mid-2010. The  
solutions demonstrated today are expected to be fully compliant with  
the standard when ratified.

About SC09
SC09, sponsored by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the  
IEEE Computer Society, offers a complete technical education program  
and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing,  
networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific  
discovery, research, education and commerce. This premier  
international conference includes a globally attended technical  
program, workshops, tutorials, an exhibit area, demonstrations and  
hands-on learning. The SC conference series is among Tradeshow Week  
magazine's Top 200  events. For more information on SC09, please visit http://sc09.supercomputing.org/ 
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For More Information
Visitors to SC09 are encouraged to visit the Juniper booth 1448, where  
test equipment will produce a visual representation that confirms  
100Gbps line-rate transmission.

Additional information regarding each of the companies involved can be  
found below:
ESnet: http://www.es.net, SC09 booth 723
Infinera: http://www.infinera.com, SC09 booth 1444
Internet2: http://www.internet2.edu, SC09 booth 1355
Ixia: http://www.ixia.com
Level 3 Communications: http://www.level3.com

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Level 3 forward-looking statement: Some of the statements made in this  
press release are forward looking in nature.
These statements are based on management’s current expectations or  
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achieving its stated goals include, but are not
limited to, the current uncertainty in the global financial markets  
and the global economy; disruptions in the financial
markets that could affect Level 3’s ability to obtain additional  
financing; as well as the company’s ability to: successfully
integrate acquisitions; increase the volume of traffic on the network;  
defend intellectual property and proprietary rights;
develop effective business support systems; manage system and network  
failures or disruptions; develop new services
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expect, a new technology being developed that
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Contacts
Juniper Networks
Greg Friedmann, 571-203-1723

or
Internet2
Lauren Rotman, 202-331-5345

or
Infinera
Deborah Porchivina, 415-272-0943

or
Ixia
Kelly Maloit, 818-444-2957

or
Level 3
Debra Havins, 720-888-7466

or
Esnet
Jon Bashor, 510-486-5849