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Northwest Open Access Network Extends Delivery of Advanced Services to Rural Communities with CIENA; Wholesale Carrier Extends Network Backbone with CoreStream Agility Platform
LINTHICUM, Md. --(Business Wire)-- July 27, 2004 -- CIENA(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:CIEN), a leading provider of intelligent service creation and delivery solutions, today announced a multi-year agreement with the Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) for deployment of CIENA's solutions to enhance its network for delivery of next-generation voice and data services to utility and rural community customers in the Pacific Northwest. Initial deployments of CIENA's CoreStream(TM) Agility Optical Transport System are underway.
NoaNet, a non-profit wholesale carrier providing TDM, Ethernet and IP terminations, primarily to a rural customer base, selected CIENA to facilitate advanced service delivery capabilities in addition to meeting diverse bandwidth needs and improving service economics. CoreStream Agility maximizes NoaNet's existing bandwidth by efficiently scaling the carrier-class, ring-based system to meet increasing demand for delivering high-capacity services at the edge of the network.
"Fault tolerance, scalability, redundancy and carrier-class operation are critical to NoaNet's ability to deliver advanced services to our customer base. CIENA's CoreStream Agility ensures we achieve those objectives and that our customers experience the same level of service they could expect in urban areas," said Rob Kopp, chief technology officer at NoaNet. "CIENA also brings a wealth of experience in transport technologies and offered us the most compelling technical solution for efficiently increasing capacity and refining network capabilities. And, the platform's technical roadmap for supporting future applications proves to us that CIENA is committed to continuous development."
NoaNet is deploying CoreStream Agility on a new route extension to NoaNet's carrier-class data network where OC-192 line rates were required. Additionally, by leveraging CIENA's Select Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM), an integrated network element for software-configurable wavelength switching, NoaNet enjoys enhanced network flexibility and significantly lower operating costs utilizing remote configuration capabilities.
"With CoreStream Agility, NoaNet is able to scale its network appropriately while maintaining superior resiliency for meeting stringent service demands as broadband is rapidly pushed out further into rural areas," said Steve Alexander, CIENA's chief technology officer and general manager of the company's Core Networking Group. "Evolving the core network to support delivery of high-bandwidth services at the edge and driving down capital and operational costs end-to-end are vital elements to the success of every service provider today, and CoreStream Agility helps NoaNet to leverage both."
CoreStream Agility also meets NoaNet's requirements for maintaining standard architectures and technologies, which allow the service provider to offer new, advanced services on top of established technologies to leverage existing investments. CIENA's open architecture ensures that NoaNet's utility members and wholesale customers can easily connect their communication systems to the NoaNet backbone for seamless service delivery to service providers.
ABOUT CIENA
CIENA Corporation delivers innovative network solutions to the world's largest service providers, cable operators and enterprises, increasing the cost-efficiency of current services while enabling the creation of new carrier-class data services built upon the existing network infrastructure. Additional information about CIENA can be found at www.ciena.com.
ABOUT NOANET
The Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) is a nonprofit corporation operating a regional transport network of over 2,400 miles of fiber optic cable in the Pacific Northwest, leased primarily from the Bonneville Power Administration. NoaNet's network is being designed and built with the future of the converging telecommunications industry in mind and it will focus on deploying this network to rural communities in their serving area. NoaNet is a community-focused organization established to enable greater economic development and quality of life through delivery of advanced, affordable, "open access" telecommunications to northwest rural communities.
NOTE TO INVESTORS
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions of CIENA (the Company) that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this release are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in such forward-looking statements, due to risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, which include the risk factors disclosed in the Company's Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2004. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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