Applications change, services evolve, and customers upgrade. Without a crystal ball advising when and where to move, service providers must place network bets. Rapid innovation will always bring about unpredictable shifts, but now you CAN make network choices that are always right—no matter what tomorrow brings.

New technologies like Ciena's FlexiPort programmable hardware, part of its FlexSelect Architecture, give you the power to dynamically adjust your network down to the port level. Another FlexSelect tool, OTN (Optical Transport Network) or "digital wrapper," gives you the flexibility to transport any service on any wavelength and manage it with 155Mb/s granularity.

Ovum-RHK recently declared OTN as a "must have" technology for packet migration and is an essential tool for making network decisions that are always right.