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Ciena Modernizes Packet Networking with 'Adaptive IP' and Coherent Optics
Ciena®
(NYSE: CIEN) is bolstering its Packet
Networking portfolio with new Adaptive IP capabilities, coherent
optics, and purpose-built hardware platforms, arming service providers
with the ability to capitalize on 5G, Next-Generation Cable MSO Access
associated with Fiber Deep, Business Services, and more. These
advancements also simplify access to metro networks allowing providers
to evolve toward an adaptive network that can support both new and
legacy business services and applications.
With these new capabilities, Ciena is bringing to market solutions that
are open, cost-effective, and disaggregated making them simpler to
deploy, manage, and maintain. The new portfolio features also
significantly reduce network operators' power, cost, and footprint
requirements.
Key Facts:
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Many of today's TDM (SONET/SDH/PDH) and Packet (Ethernet/IP/MPLS)
networks are rigid, complex, and costly, resulting in a slower
time-to-market and growing inflexibility to address constantly
changing customer demands. Networks also continue to lack the agility
and ability to rapidly deploy new services, which leads to customer
churn and loss of revenue.
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To help service providers address these challenges once and for all,
and to profit from new and high-growth opportunities like the
evolution from 4G to 5G, L2/L3/VNF Business Services, and
Next-Generation Cable MSO Access, Ciena is introducing a simpler,
streamlined approach to building IP-enabled networks, from access to
metro. Ciena is investing in several enhancements to its Packet
Networking portfolio, including:
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Service-Aware (News - Alert) Operating System (SAOS) enhanced with IP
capabilities targeted at specific high-growth applications -
Based on a streamlined, modular, open, and highly programmable
IP architecture, Ciena's SAOS empowers providers via an "Adaptive
IP" approach. This improves service velocity, shortens
time-to-revenue, and enables an adaptive network to best address
evolving end-user network service requirements for existing, new,
and emerging applications with a highly differentiated quality of
service.
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Ciena's new 5162
Service Aggregation Platform as well as the 5170
Service Aggregation Platform will be the first to offer
enhanced SAOS, enabling providers to address L3 VPN business
services. Additiona Adaptive IP features will be developed and
integrated across Ciena's Packet Networking platforms.
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Coherent Optics - This allows for rapid, cost-effective
scaling to address ongoing bandwidth growth, specifically toward
the network edge. Supporting coherent optics simplifies network
designs with notable reductions in power, space, cost, and overall
operational complexity.
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6500
Packet Transport System (PTS) - The 6500 PTS
converts legacy TDM business services (SONET/SDH/PDH) into packet
flows to be carried over a more efficient and scalable packet
network. This allows network operators to continue supporting
existing TDM customers while also addressing new, high-growth
applications - all over a single, converged packet-based transport
network.
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Blue Planet Management Portfolio - Added to Ciena's
existing Blue Planet Management portfolio are new Layer 3-aware Route
Optimization & Assurance capabilities obtained from the
recent acquisition of Packet Design (News - Alert) for improved IP network
designs, operation, and management, from end-to-end.
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These new capabilities are supported by Ciena's broad suite of Professional
Services, which allow operators to elegantly transform their
networks, regardless of the stage (plan, design, deploy, manage, and
maintain) of their journey to a more adaptive network.
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Attendees at the MEF18
event taking place Oct. 29 - Nov. 2 in Los Angeles will have an
opportunity to hear more about these new capabilities in a keynote
session led by Kevin Sheehan, Ciena's CTO for the Americas, taking
place Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 11:30 a.m. PST. Ciena's booth (#507) will
also feature these enhancements in several technical demonstrations.
Executive Comment:
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"5G, IoT, Next-Generation Cable MSO Access, and L2/L3/VNF Business
Services require that operators redefine what they need from their
existing packet networks. Ciena's new Adaptive IP capabilities provide
a graceful migration path from legacy TDM (SONET/SDH/PDH) networks and
traditional, closed IP-based architectures to more open,
disaggregated, and programmable IP-based SDN architecture. This gives
our customers greater control of their own destiny and lays the
foundation of the ultimate end state - the Adaptive Network, which
responds in real-time to changing demands."
- Scott McFeely,
Senior Vice President, Global Products and Services, Ciena
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is a networking systems, services, and software
company. We provide solutions that help our clients create more adaptive
networks in response to the constantly changing demands of their users.
By delivering best-in-class networking technology through high-touch
consultative relationships, we build the world's most sophisticated
networks with automation and scale. For updates on Ciena, follow us on
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the Ciena
Insights blog, or visit www.ciena.com.
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