Ciena's ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform Provides Carrier-class Solutions for both carrier and enterprise environments. Various network topologies can be supported at distances from tens to hundreds of kilometers and bandwidth in excess of 320 Gb/s on a fiber, complete with SONET/SDH and optical protection options for 99.999% availability. Intelligent, dynamic optical power management completes the picture, enabling graceful capacity upgrades without the need for manual adjustment. Multi-protocol functions include the widest range of optical interfaces covering Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel (FC), FICONTM, ESCON®, SONET/SDH and Digital Video—all with performance monitoring visibility. ONWAVE sub-wavelength aggregation and switching enables efficient transport of these rates using combinations of both 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s wavelengths in the network. Integrated SONET/SDH Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM) functions are also provided via ONWAVE service blades, transparently combining OC-3/12/48 and SDH equivalent framed signals into OC-48 or OC-192 wavelengths. Overhead transparency is incrementally provisionable to allow conventional or transparent transport, enabling applications such as router inter-connect or carriage of sub tending BLSR ring traffic. Additionally, on-board SONET switching provides STS-1 level grooming, as well as SONET/SDH gateway functionality. Two ADM blades mated in a shelf replace what was previously a shelf or rack of conventional ADM equipment.

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