Carphone Warehouseis building its own
optical fibre network to serve its broadband customers, as opposed
to relying wholly on BT's network.
The firm is using Infinera to supply a national backbone network
across the UK.
Carphone Warehouse, which is the UK's third-largest internet
service provider, with 2.5 million customers, decided last year to
build its own nationwide backbone network to carry data and voice
traffic for its growing customer base.
Neil McArthur, chief executive of Carphone Warehouse Networks,
said, "We chose Infinera for our national backbone because it
allows us to achieve far better economies of scale. More
importantly, it gives us control of our own destiny when it comes
to rolling out high-capacity, high-quality services when and where
our customers need them."