May 25, 2012
11:15 AM EDT
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Gaming the Optical Control Plane
Earlier this week Ciena unveiled our new OneConnect intelligent optical control plane (see OneConnect: This is an optical control plane).
One of the benefits of Ciena's new OneConnect intelligent optical control plane is the ability to enable auto-discovery, automated provisioning and virtual point-and-click service creation, as well as automated link restoration in milliseconds instead of seconds or minutes.
So what better way to demonstrate the near point-and-click capabilities of our control plane than by creating a OneConnect game where you score points by quickly clicking a path between nodes through the network.
And that's exactly what we've done with our OneConnect Control Plane game, a fun (but still educational) take on the intelligent optical control plane.
To encourage you to play, we're giving away a OneConnect Control Plane T-shirt to the top 3 high scores by the end of May (just enter your name when recording your score, we'll use the honor system after that for verification).
Just click below to take your best shot at the high score.
But make no mistake, the capabilities of Ciena's new control plane are no game. In fact, a recent Infonetics survey of global service providers found that control plane capabilities were the #2 most important factor that set vendors apart during evaluation (see Infonetics: Carriers say Ciena top optical vendor).
With that in mind, we've been pushing the importance of control plane this week to industry pubs as part of our OneConnect unveiling. Generally the topic of control plane isn't one that gets your heart racing, but so far the message has been well-received:
- Ciena SVP Tom Mock and product marketing director Theresa Cauble were interviewed by LightWave Online for this article that highlights how OneConnect fits into the broader software-defined network (SDN) market that is getting so much attention lately.
- Tom Mock also talked to Sean Buckley of FierceTelecom on our plans to extend the OneConnect control plane to Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform.
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