The Carphone Warehouse, Europe's leading mobile phone retailer and one of the UK 's leading Internet service providers, has selected Infinera for its national backbone network in the UK .  Infinera's Digital Optical Network will allow The Carphone Warehouse to deliver the capacity and services needed by its rapidly growing customer base of residential and business broadband users, as well as supporting the company's strategic objective of becoming the UK 's leading alternate fixed line provider. The Carphone Warehouse decided last year to build its own nationwide backbone network to carry data and voice traffic for its growing customer base. The Carphone Warehouse has selected Infinera as the optical platform for the network because of many key features including flexibility, speed, and cost-effectiveness. The Infinera Digital Optical Network enables The Carphone Warehouse to deliver any service to any point on its network without the need for expensive and time-consuming optical fine-tuning. Infinera's interchangeable tributary modules provide the flexibility to add new services or quickly change the services provisioned on existing line-side capacity. Infinera networks offer industry-leading speed of service delivery due to the digital architecture and the software intelligence in the Infinera IQ network operating system. Speed of installation and speed of adding new services are critical success factors for The Carphone Warehouse, which is supporting a rapidly-growing customer base, and a customer base which is rapidly embracing new applications such as the delivery of television programming in new and more consumer-friendly forms.
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