Datasheets and brochures
Application notes
Putting Assured Networking to Work for Government (pdf)
The complexity of current IT networks, a shortage of skilled technical talent, and legislative challenges have slowed the pace of renovation of cumbersome, costly network infrastructures. However, top government officials recognize the need for greater visibility into network operations, along with precise real-time information to accelerate and improve decision-making.
The complexity of current IT networks, a shortage of skilled technical talent, and legislative challenges have slowed the pace of renovation of cumbersome, costly network infrastructures. However, top government officials recognize the need for greater visibility into network operations, along with precise real-time information to accelerate and improve decision-making.
A Robust High-Capacity Network for Healthcare EMR and PACS Applications (pdf)
Leading healthcare providers are deploying electronic records and imaging systems to improve patient care, reduce turnaround times, and gain significant operational and cost efficiencies. Healthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Ciena's 4200 Family enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to replace legacy leased-line infrastructures with high-capacity fiber networks that meet stringent EMR and PACS requirements.
Leading healthcare providers are deploying electronic records and imaging systems to improve patient care, reduce turnaround times, and gain significant operational and cost efficiencies. Healthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Ciena's 4200 Family enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to replace legacy leased-line infrastructures with high-capacity fiber networks that meet stringent EMR and PACS requirements.
Enabling Next-Generation Healthcare Networks (pdf)
Driven in part by federal government legislation and incentives, healthcare providers are undertaking major initiatives to improve the overall quality of patient care and reduce medical errors. These providers have no choice but to adopt new life-saving, and also bandwidth-intensive, applications like telemedicine and PACS if they are to remain competitive and relevant. To overcome this challenge in a cost-effective manner, providers increasingly are adopting optical networking and Ethernet infrastructure to ensure that their critical patient data is delivered quickly and reliably throughout their networks.
Driven in part by federal government legislation and incentives, healthcare providers are undertaking major initiatives to improve the overall quality of patient care and reduce medical errors. These providers have no choice but to adopt new life-saving, and also bandwidth-intensive, applications like telemedicine and PACS if they are to remain competitive and relevant. To overcome this challenge in a cost-effective manner, providers increasingly are adopting optical networking and Ethernet infrastructure to ensure that their critical patient data is delivered quickly and reliably throughout their networks.
Evolving to a Smart Grid Energy Network (pdf)
Electric power systems constitute the fundamental infrastructure of modern society. Electric power grids and distribution networks reach virtually every home, office, factory, and institution in the industrialized world. While the basic electric grid design—based on concepts established over 75 years ago—has proven useful, its evolution has not kept up with advances in technology. Numerous pressures on the electric power delivery system are converging, forcing the system to evolve in different ways.
Electric power systems constitute the fundamental infrastructure of modern society. Electric power grids and distribution networks reach virtually every home, office, factory, and institution in the industrialized world. While the basic electric grid design—based on concepts established over 75 years ago—has proven useful, its evolution has not kept up with advances in technology. Numerous pressures on the electric power delivery system are converging, forcing the system to evolve in different ways.
Healthcare in the Public Sector (pdf)
The U.S. government is leading the charge to improve national, regional, and statewide healthcare for all people by providing significant financial backing to states and municipalities. Established in 2008, the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides states with a total of $40 billion as a catalyst to modernize healthcare systems and eventually create a national health information network.
The U.S. government is leading the charge to improve national, regional, and statewide healthcare for all people by providing significant financial backing to states and municipalities. Established in 2008, the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides states with a total of $40 billion as a catalyst to modernize healthcare systems and eventually create a national health information network.
Automated End-to-End Managed Service Delivery and Capacity Allocation (pdf)
End-to-end managed services are becoming key elements for profitability, enabling network operators to differentiate service offerings with more than just transport capacity. The synergy of CoreDirector, CN 4200, and ON-Center provides operators the ability to transform networks into operationally scalable, programmable service-delivery engines for cost-effective on-demand, end-to-end, managed services with six-9s availability and rapid infrastructure capacity allocation.
End-to-end managed services are becoming key elements for profitability, enabling network operators to differentiate service offerings with more than just transport capacity. The synergy of CoreDirector, CN 4200, and ON-Center provides operators the ability to transform networks into operationally scalable, programmable service-delivery engines for cost-effective on-demand, end-to-end, managed services with six-9s availability and rapid infrastructure capacity allocation.
Advanced DWDM Solution for GDPS Environments (pdf)
By leveraging the CN 4200, GDPS customers can realize up to 75 percent reductions of wavelength counts required to support STP. With these savings, plus the delivery of unprecedented flexibility to WDM networks supporting GDPS, the CN 4200 serves as a valuable foundation for GDPS environments and hybrid CTN environments.
By leveraging the CN 4200, GDPS customers can realize up to 75 percent reductions of wavelength counts required to support STP. With these savings, plus the delivery of unprecedented flexibility to WDM networks supporting GDPS, the CN 4200 serves as a valuable foundation for GDPS environments and hybrid CTN environments.
Interconnecting Healthcare Providers (pdf)
Many hospital groups are placing patient records online—integrating medical information, billing records, pharmacy operations, and scheduling and registration data in comprehensive systems. Electronic health records are just one example of medical Information Technology (IT) used to improve patient safety, quality of care and clinical outcomes.
Many hospital groups are placing patient records online—integrating medical information, billing records, pharmacy operations, and scheduling and registration data in comprehensive systems. Electronic health records are just one example of medical Information Technology (IT) used to improve patient safety, quality of care and clinical outcomes.
Efficient Native Digital Video Transport for the Media and Entertainment Industries (pdf)
Broadcasters and film and television producers face the challenge of transporting HD video content. The CN 4200 helps broadcasters improve service quality, reliability, and cost by replacing satellite links with dark fiber or managed wavelengths. Producers can eliminate antiquated tape distribution methods and use optical networks to deliver original-quality content efficiently to dispersed post-production teams. The CN 4200 is the only optical service delivery platform capable of transporting HD video in uncompressed format over metro and regional distances with original signal integrity.
Broadcasters and film and television producers face the challenge of transporting HD video content. The CN 4200 helps broadcasters improve service quality, reliability, and cost by replacing satellite links with dark fiber or managed wavelengths. Producers can eliminate antiquated tape distribution methods and use optical networks to deliver original-quality content efficiently to dispersed post-production teams. The CN 4200 is the only optical service delivery platform capable of transporting HD video in uncompressed format over metro and regional distances with original signal integrity.
CN 4200 Enables Native HD Video, Critical for Real-Time Telemedicine and Telesurgery Applications (pdf)
Leading healthcare providers turn to interactive telemedicine to expand reach, improve care, and increase productivity. Faced with ongoing shortages of specialists and trained personnel and a greatly increased patient caseload, healthcare providers are challenged to meet growing service demands. Ciena's CN 4200 enables healthcare IT professionals to deliver high-capacity, highly available networks, to maintain a competitive edge in today’s strained healthcare system.
Leading healthcare providers turn to interactive telemedicine to expand reach, improve care, and increase productivity. Faced with ongoing shortages of specialists and trained personnel and a greatly increased patient caseload, healthcare providers are challenged to meet growing service demands. Ciena's CN 4200 enables healthcare IT professionals to deliver high-capacity, highly available networks, to maintain a competitive edge in today’s strained healthcare system.
Low-Latency, High-Performance Optical Networking Solutions (pdf)
Financial services firms specializing in high-volume, high-frequency trading are looking to reduce network latency anywhere within the algorithmic-based trading work flow. In the past, efforts to reduce latency have been implemented with superfast computers, faster software and faster storage connections. Today, saving fractions of seconds by reducing data transport latency in network systems and fiber-based transport networks is receiving more attention. Ciena’s new low-latency, high-capacity fiber optic networking solutions address all of these demanding requirements.
Financial services firms specializing in high-volume, high-frequency trading are looking to reduce network latency anywhere within the algorithmic-based trading work flow. In the past, efforts to reduce latency have been implemented with superfast computers, faster software and faster storage connections. Today, saving fractions of seconds by reducing data transport latency in network systems and fiber-based transport networks is receiving more attention. Ciena’s new low-latency, high-capacity fiber optic networking solutions address all of these demanding requirements.
Modernization of Government and Public Networks (pdf)
Inherently inefficient, application-specific networks require expensive capital outlay each time a new application is adopted. As demand for the application grows or declines, there is no single means to scale network capacity nor a unified vision to accommodate emerging applications that directly yield public benefit. As the network specialist, Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.
Inherently inefficient, application-specific networks require expensive capital outlay each time a new application is adopted. As demand for the application grows or declines, there is no single means to scale network capacity nor a unified vision to accommodate emerging applications that directly yield public benefit. As the network specialist, Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.
Universal Broadband Access (pdf)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 funds programs to build universal, sustainable access to broadband Internet services that foster education, public safety, government efficiency, and commercial activity. This vision for universal, high-performance broadband requires network operators to address the unique needs of a wide range of network users by constructing a full-service metro network leveraging existing technologies—such as Ethernet and OTN—to provide rapidly scalable and reliable service.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 funds programs to build universal, sustainable access to broadband Internet services that foster education, public safety, government efficiency, and commercial activity. This vision for universal, high-performance broadband requires network operators to address the unique needs of a wide range of network users by constructing a full-service metro network leveraging existing technologies—such as Ethernet and OTN—to provide rapidly scalable and reliable service.
Wire-Speed Encryption Solution (pdf)
Whether supporting time-critical financial transactions, sensitive healthcare record storage, secure military communications, or simply wireless voice connections, today’s IT infrastructure is asked to do more than ever in an environment of increasing threats. Given the distributed nature of today’s leading-edge applications (such as sensor-based data gathering), the need for secure and reliable transmission facilities is ever-increasing.
Whether supporting time-critical financial transactions, sensitive healthcare record storage, secure military communications, or simply wireless voice connections, today’s IT infrastructure is asked to do more than ever in an environment of increasing threats. Given the distributed nature of today’s leading-edge applications (such as sensor-based data gathering), the need for secure and reliable transmission facilities is ever-increasing.
Taking Control of WAN Cost (pdf)
Positioning a company for growth on the heels of a recession requires a fresh look at the ways the enterprise networking infrastructure meets new business requirements. To meet the challenges of increasingly stringent competition, enterprises need a network that supports the new business plan, which defines requirements for network capacity, availability, and other characteristics while minimizing total cost.
Positioning a company for growth on the heels of a recession requires a fresh look at the ways the enterprise networking infrastructure meets new business requirements. To meet the challenges of increasingly stringent competition, enterprises need a network that supports the new business plan, which defines requirements for network capacity, availability, and other characteristics while minimizing total cost.
The Energy Landscape: Generation, Transmission, and Consumption (pdf)
Utilities are implementing highly intelligent energy grids to improve operating efficiency and meet government mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These smart grids are powered by a two-way communications network that must be highly reliable and constantly available, yet affordable to install and operate. Ciena’s solutions include optical transport and Ethernet service delivery platforms, supported by network management and specialist services offerings that form a comprehensive energy communications network.
Utilities are implementing highly intelligent energy grids to improve operating efficiency and meet government mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These smart grids are powered by a two-way communications network that must be highly reliable and constantly available, yet affordable to install and operate. Ciena’s solutions include optical transport and Ethernet service delivery platforms, supported by network management and specialist services offerings that form a comprehensive energy communications network.
Economic Benefits of End-to-End OTN Service Switching (pdf)
The unrelenting growth of bandwidth demand is causing a number of dilemmas for network operators—including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services. End-to-end OTN service switching is the most economical way to compete for and handle the growth in high-bandwidth optical services. No other solution allows operators to turn up new services faster and more efficiently while removing the cost of uncertainty in future traffic mix.
The unrelenting growth of bandwidth demand is causing a number of dilemmas for network operators—including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services. End-to-end OTN service switching is the most economical way to compete for and handle the growth in high-bandwidth optical services. No other solution allows operators to turn up new services faster and more efficiently while removing the cost of uncertainty in future traffic mix.
White Papers
ROADMs in Network Architectures (pdf)
ROADM delivers new flexibility to DWDM networks by enabling dynamic, transparent optical wavelength add/drop functioning, and adds considerable agility and robustness to network architectures—vastly improving service velocity and lowering TCO.
ROADM delivers new flexibility to DWDM networks by enabling dynamic, transparent optical wavelength add/drop functioning, and adds considerable agility and robustness to network architectures—vastly improving service velocity and lowering TCO.
The Value of OTN for Network Convergence and IP/Ethernet Migration (pdf)
Today, network operaters are forced to converge their networks in order to reduce OPEX and also to eliminate unnecessary additional CAPEX on multiple parallel networks. Ciena's 4200 OTN implementation maps all services into a common set of wavelengths—simplifying everything from monitoring and deployment to sparing and capacity management.
Today, network operaters are forced to converge their networks in order to reduce OPEX and also to eliminate unnecessary additional CAPEX on multiple parallel networks. Ciena's 4200 OTN implementation maps all services into a common set of wavelengths—simplifying everything from monitoring and deployment to sparing and capacity management.
Heavy Reading White Paper: Building the Next-Generation Packet-Optical Switching Network (pdf)
The next phase of SONET/SDH to packet network migration is underway, and optical networks must evolve to meet the challenges. To do this, a renewed focus has been placed on optical switching innovations and a tighter coupling of switching and transport through element integration and a unified control plane. Meanwhile, the network must continue to support legacy SONET/SDH traffic. Also, the network and network elements must have a high degree of modularity so operators can add the features and functions they need, when they need them.
The next phase of SONET/SDH to packet network migration is underway, and optical networks must evolve to meet the challenges. To do this, a renewed focus has been placed on optical switching innovations and a tighter coupling of switching and transport through element integration and a unified control plane. Meanwhile, the network must continue to support legacy SONET/SDH traffic. Also, the network and network elements must have a high degree of modularity so operators can add the features and functions they need, when they need them.
Storage Extension Network Solutions: Lower-cost, Higher-Performance Networks (pdf)
Robust, secure, resilient, high-capacity storage networks are business imperatives. The right network solutions must provide reliable, timely, and accurate application-layer replication over a network that cost-effectively delivers high-performance connectivity to fit application requirements. This white paper explores techniques to ensure the availability of storage applications over distances while driving costs down by up to 70 percent.
Robust, secure, resilient, high-capacity storage networks are business imperatives. The right network solutions must provide reliable, timely, and accurate application-layer replication over a network that cost-effectively delivers high-performance connectivity to fit application requirements. This white paper explores techniques to ensure the availability of storage applications over distances while driving costs down by up to 70 percent.
Making the Case for Converged Ethernet Transport (pdf)
This white paper examines the market drivers, key benefits, and main applications for converged Ethernet transport, and provides an overview of the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform Family—including the new G10/G10X Ethernet service modules, which deliver a cost-effective, high-performance, manageable packet optical networking platform.
This white paper examines the market drivers, key benefits, and main applications for converged Ethernet transport, and provides an overview of the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform Family—including the new G10/G10X Ethernet service modules, which deliver a cost-effective, high-performance, manageable packet optical networking platform.
The Network as a Programmable Service-Delivery Engine (pdf)
Service providers face the increasing need to capitalize on the paradigm shift occurring in the ways consumers and enterprises perceive and use network services and bandwidth. To remain differentiated and valuable to end-users, providers must transition networks to service-driven and highly programmable infrastructures.
Service providers face the increasing need to capitalize on the paradigm shift occurring in the ways consumers and enterprises perceive and use network services and bandwidth. To remain differentiated and valuable to end-users, providers must transition networks to service-driven and highly programmable infrastructures.
Videos
Ciena and EMC: Driving Customer Success with Storage Extension
Ciena's Lynne Milton outlines the power of the Ciena/EMC partnership in delivering value to customers globally.
Ciena's Lynne Milton outlines the power of the Ciena/EMC partnership in delivering value to customers globally.
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