Highlight: Ciena’s Next Generation Switching Solutions
Operators are transitioning network infrastructures from SONET/SDH to Ethernet and OTN to more effectively and economically address the increase in high-speed optical and IP-centric traffic and services. Although not the only major concern in building a next-generation, packet-optimized network, switching plays a prominent role in creating competitive differentiation, optimizing service delivery, and achieving the desired scalability, performance, resiliency, and flexibility. And, to truly address the financial and technological imperatives of an operator’s business in facilitating this transition, a more customizable and optimized approach to switching is required—one that provides a degree of hardware and software modularity and reconfigurability not found in the market today. Ciena recently announced additions to its switching portfolio that will play a prominent role in helping our customers transition to service-enabling infrastructures based on Ethernet and OTN.CoreDirector® FS Multiservice Optical Switch
The CoreDirector FS is a comprehensive enhancement of the Company’s core optical switch that delivers substantial new hardware and software features, including data, control and management plane extensions, to support the transition from SONET/SDH architectures to next-generation Ethernet/OTN-based networks. Fully interoperable with the global installed base of CoreDirector and CoreDirector CI® switches, CoreDirector FS’ features include transparent service delivery with OTN switching, scalability up to 1000 nodes in a single control plane domain, full C-band tunable, pluggable ULH DWDM interfaces, new FlexSelect® Line Modules with programmable ports and tighter integration with the CN 4200® FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform.
Learn More5400 Family of Reconfigurable Switching Systems
Ciena’s 5400 family is a series of performance-optimized, multi-terabit Ethernet, OTN and TDM switching systems with integrated transport functionality that can be flexibly configured to implement a broad range of network elements including a scalable optical cross-connect, feature-rich Carrier Ethernet switch, or a fully converged packet-optical transport and switching system. Featuring its own patent-pending technology and configurable components, the 5400 family incorporates the field-proven intelligent optical control plane of CoreDirector FS, market-leading OTN and FlexiPort technology of CN 4200 and the True Carrier Ethernet® functionality of the Carrier Ethernet Services Delivery (CESD) portfolio. Initial products in the 5400 family will include the 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System and the 5410 Reconfigurable Switching System. The first release of the 5430 is a 44 RU, 30-slot system with 3.6 Tb/s of capacity while the 5410 is a 22 RU, 10-slot system with 1.2 Tb/s of capacity. Both platforms are designed to scale capacity as market demand evolves