CIENA'S MultiWave Metro Selected by NetWorld+Interop `99 for InteropNet Labs Technology Showcase
Linthicum, MD — 05/10/1999Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) today announced that its MultiWave Metro metropolitan area optical transport system has been chosen by NetWorld+Interop '99 for inclusion in its InteropNet Labs showcase at the Las Vegas Convention Center from May 10-14, 1999.
The Networld+Interop conference and exhibit is the definitive networking event for the service provider and enterprise markets. Designed to highlight the newest tools available to build reliable, robust networks to handle converging data, voice, and video traffic and to provide information about building and managing an Internet infrastructure that offers compelling integrated services for enterprise networks, the InteropNet Labs provides a respected, live, proving ground for cutting-edge developments and new technologies.
Ciena's MultiWave Metro will be deployed in the InteropNet Lab in a four node ring configuration carrying live ATM, Gigabit Ethernet and IP/SONET traffic over a single fiber pair - highlighting Metro's ability to support multiple interfaces and applications.
"At a time when industry focus has shifted to helping carriers solve the growing congestion in local access markets, NetWorld+Interop's InteropNet Labs represents an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the flexibility, cost-savings and carrier revenue-generating potential that Ciena's intelligent optical networking brings to this space," said Steve Chaddick, senior vice president for strategy and corporate development at Ciena.
"Ciena's MultiWave Metro system offers carriers a versatile, cost- and bandwidth-efficient choice to legacy SONET metropolitan ring architectures - without sacrificing carrier-class reliability and protection - and we're pleased with NetWorld+Interop's recognition of Metro's revolutionary architecture," Chaddick concluded.
Ciena's MultiWave Metro, currently in beta trials with potential customers, is an optical networking transport system designed for use in service provider metropolitan applications. Logically configurable in point-to-point, mesh or ring topologies, MultiWave Metro enables deployment of SONET/SDH rings, IP or ATM virtual path rings and point-to-point connections for private line services.
Because of Metro's ability to drop any wavelength at any location the system can support a variety of virtual networks efficiently on the same fiber pair, dramatically increasing a service provider's ability to support both current and future services. The system provides carriers up to 60 Gb/s of voice, data or video traffic over a single fiber pair.
Ciena's MultiWave Metro differentiates itself from other solutions by being a complete carrier-class solution for a wide variety of protocols, data rates and network survivability options.
NetWorld+Interop '99's InteropNet Labs showcase and Ciena's MultiWave Metro system will be located in the lobby between the North and South Halls at the Las Vegas Convention Center, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on May 11-12, and from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM on May 13, 1999.
Additional information about Ciena and its Lightworks Initiative can be found on its worldwide Website: http://www.ciena.com.
Ciena Corporation's market leading optical networking systems form the core of telecommunications networks worldwide. Ciena's LightWorks(TM) Initiative changes the fundamental economics of service provider networks by simplifying the network architecture and reducing the cost to operate it. Ciena's networking solutions utilize bandwidth expanding dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology and include the MultiWave® family of products for long-haul, short-haul and metropolitan applications. Ciena's CoreDirector(TM), an intelligent optical core switch, delivers dynamic provisioning, grooming, flexible capacity management and survivability. Through its Ciena Services subsidiary, Ciena provides a range of engineering, furnishing and installation (EF&I) services for telecommunications service providers in the areas of transport, switching and wireless communications.
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 difficulty in anticipating core demand for bandwidth as well as other risk factors disclosed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 1998, as supplemented by the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the Commission on February 18, 1999, and as updated and restated into "plain English" format in a Form 8K filed April 5, 1999.
Nicole Anderson
Ciena Corporation
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Marie Downing
Ciena Corporation
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