[August 08, 2012] |
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Spirit Selects Ciena for Network Upgrade
LINTHICUM, Md. --(Business Wire)--
Ciena®
Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that Spirit
Communications, a leader in North and South Carolina business
telecommunication services, will use Ciena technology, including the 5430
Packet-Optical Reconfigurable Switching System (RSS) and OneConnect
Intelligent Control Plane software, to modernize and further enhance
its transport network. Spirit Communications, the first in the Carolinas
to deploy the 5430 RSS, will use Ciena's technology to differentiate its
service offerings and increase the programmability, flexibility and
resiliency of its network to better serve its customers' increasing
demand for bandwidth capacity.
Key Facts:
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Spirit is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) and Carrier
Services provider in North and South Carolina that operates its own
network to provide innovative communication solutions to commercial
businesses, state and federal government agencies, healthcare
organizations and telecommunications providers throughout the
Carolinas. Additionally, its partnerships with major
telecommunications carriers allow Spirit to provide worldwide
connectivity.
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Ciena's 5430 RSS will link Spirit's major point-of-presence (POP)
locations across the Carolinas. The upgraded network will support an
increase in switching capacity at each location to serve existing TDM
traffic migrated from legacy systems, as well as advanced Optical
Transport Network (OTN) and Carrier Ethernet protocols, for increasing
demands today and in the future.
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Additionally, by combining Ciena's 5430 switching system with
OneConnect, both key elements of the Ciena's OPn
architecture for programmable networks, Spirit is able to
differentiate its service offering with mesh restoration, improved
network resiliency and service availability, beyond what would be
possible with a competitive platform.
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Spirit will now have the opportunity to differentiate its optical and
private line service offerings and increase revenue by providing:
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Fast turn-up of services;
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High-resiliency services based on mesh restoration, ensuring
protection against multiple failures in a cost-effective manner;
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Low-latency services that guarantee latency measures to the
end-customers; and,
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Optical VPN services that interconnect multiple customer locations
at high capacity.
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Combined with Ciena's 4200
Advanced Services Platform and 6500
Packet-Optical Platform, which are both already deployed in the
network, the 5430 will help Spirit carry additional traffic without
the need to build an entirely new network.
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Spirit will also use Ciena's advanced network management solution,
which provides simple, cost-effective and integrated management
capabilities.
Executive Comments:
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"By deploying Ciena's optical switching and control plane technology,
we are able to establish a high-availability mesh network between the
major POP locations within our footprint across the Carolinas.
Additionally, the network enhancements will allow us to scale our
network, both now and in the future, to support our customers'
increasing demand for Carrier Ethernet services, wireless backhaul and
data center interconnectivity."
- Greg Guerra, EVP business
development and product management at Spirit
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"Our OPn programmable network architecture is ideal for
network operators like Spirit to improve their competitive advantage
by providing enhanced service resiliency, improved service-turn up
time, low-latency and guaranteed latency services, which will help
them to better monetize their networks. With Ciena's 5430 and
OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane software, this network upgrade
will allow Spirit to cost-effectively scale and enhance its transport
network to efficiently create and deliver high-capacity, premium
services."
- Chad Whalen, vice president and general manager,
North America field organization at Ciena
Technology Background:
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Ciena's 5430 platform is optimized for cost-effective, scalable and
intelligent bandwidth management, enabling efficient aggregation,
grooming, and tiered protection of SONET/SDH and OTN traffic types.
The platform is powered by Ciena's market-leading OneConnect
Intelligent Control Plane software, which allows operators to automate
labor-intensive operations including planning, provisioning, and
inventory management, while dramatically increasing network resiliency
and availability.
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Ciena's leadership in control plane software stems from a 12-year
history of innovation and live field deployments in some of the
world's largest, most mission-critical and most performance-demanding
networks, representing thousands of nodes and hundreds of thousands of
circuits.
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More than 90 percent of field-deployed Ciena Packet-Optical
Switching systems run Ciena's control plane for automated service
creation, mesh restoration and service differentiation with some
customers reporting unprecedented 99.9999 percent (six-9s) reliability
due to the performance and robustness of Ciena's control plane
software.
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Ciena's 4200 Family optimizes WDM transport with integrated switching
and services management while addressing performance and cost
requirements for telecom infrastructure and enterprise services.
Supporting Resources:
About Spirit Communications
Spirit Communications is the premier provider of telecommunication
services in North and South Carolina. It operates its own cutting-edge
MPLS network and provides innovative voice, data and Internet solutions
to a cross section of businesses, government agencies and healthcare
organizations throughout the Southeast. It provides world-class carrier
services to telecommunications providers throughout the southeast
utilizing the most advanced technologies and network speeds available
today.
About Ciena
Ciena is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide
to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally
change the way they perform and compete. With focused innovation, Ciena
brings together the reliability and capacity of optical networking with
the flexibility and economics of Ethernet, unified by services and
software that delivers the industry's leading network automation. We
routinely post recent news, financial results and other important
announcements and information about Ciena on our website. For more
information, visit www.ciena.com.
Note to Ciena Investors
Forward-looking statements. This press release contains certain
forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and
assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are
based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof; and
Ciena's actual results could differ materially from those stated or
implied, due to risks and uncertainties associated with its business,
which include the risk factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-Q,
which Ciena filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 6,
2012. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Ciena'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. Ciena 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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