The Carrier Ethernet Service Switching Family integrates Ethernet services management, a common service-aware operating system, and programmable network devices to aggregate and deliver a full array of business and transport Carrier Ethernet services from the edge of the metro/core to the customer. Ciena’s field-proven True Carrier Ethernet™ combines the low cost and high capacity of Ethernet with the reliability, management, and service quality associated with SONET/SDH networks. The result is a programmable service-delivery engine that delivers Ethernet services with new levels of speed and agility.

With Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Service Extension Family, service providers can realize a new level of speed and agility in extending revenue-generating Ethernet services to end-customers over fiber or copper access networks, and provide Carrier Ethernet transport for legacy TDM and ATM services for converged voice/data business services and wireless backhaul applications.