Datasheets and brochures
Application notes
Networked Remote Storage for Enterprises (pdf)
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery is a major concern for large enterprise IT managers. System downtime affects the bottom line through lost revenues and productivity, negative customer experiences and potential legal liability. Now, enterprises no longer have to sacrifice the integrity of their IT planning due to cost prohibitive network services. Ciena provides solutions that enable service providers and enterprises to cost-effectively interconnect data centers to ensure their data is safe, secure, and always available.
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery is a major concern for large enterprise IT managers. System downtime affects the bottom line through lost revenues and productivity, negative customer experiences and potential legal liability. Now, enterprises no longer have to sacrifice the integrity of their IT planning due to cost prohibitive network services. Ciena provides solutions that enable service providers and enterprises to cost-effectively interconnect data centers to ensure their data is safe, secure, and always available.
Advanced Optical Enterprise Solutions (pdf)
Ciena’s data-optimized solutions provide enterprise networks with cost-effective, high bandwidth connectivity,enabling them to support storage network extension, network consolidation, and business continuity. Ciena’s ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM and CN 2600 Multiservice CWDM Platforms deliver end-to-end solutions. CN 2600 and Metro platforms support storage and data interfaces. Our network solutions provide the density, flexibility, availability, manageability, and scalability that today’s enterprises require.
Ciena’s data-optimized solutions provide enterprise networks with cost-effective, high bandwidth connectivity,enabling them to support storage network extension, network consolidation, and business continuity. Ciena’s ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM and CN 2600 Multiservice CWDM Platforms deliver end-to-end solutions. CN 2600 and Metro platforms support storage and data interfaces. Our network solutions provide the density, flexibility, availability, manageability, and scalability that today’s enterprises require.
White papers
Protection Schemes for Metropolitan Optical Networks (pdf)
This paper outlines two different protection schemes designed for optical networks: Optical Unidirectional Path Switched Rings (O-UPSR), also called Optical Dedicated Protection Rings, and Optical Bidirectional Line Switched Rings (O-BLSR), also called Optical Shared Protection Rings. These two protection schemes have different effects on critical network functionality, such as wavelength utilization and total system capacity, and service providers must make informed decisions about which scheme is best suited to the specific needs of their networks. Outlined in this paper are the different technical operations and requirements of each scheme, as well as their benefits.
This paper outlines two different protection schemes designed for optical networks: Optical Unidirectional Path Switched Rings (O-UPSR), also called Optical Dedicated Protection Rings, and Optical Bidirectional Line Switched Rings (O-BLSR), also called Optical Shared Protection Rings. These two protection schemes have different effects on critical network functionality, such as wavelength utilization and total system capacity, and service providers must make informed decisions about which scheme is best suited to the specific needs of their networks. Outlined in this paper are the different technical operations and requirements of each scheme, as well as their benefits.
Webinars
Adapting Enterprise Infrastructure for The Future (presented by OnFiber Communications)
Metro network solutions provider OnFiber Communications will provide an overview of its AdaptiveBuild process, a unique enterprise network infrastructure solution for multi-location companies with high bandwidth requirements. OnFiber will also discuss how Ciena's ONLINE portfolio helps them create these high capacity, purpose-built, end to-end networks designed specifically to support customers’ individual business application and infrastructure requirements.
Metro network solutions provider OnFiber Communications will provide an overview of its AdaptiveBuild process, a unique enterprise network infrastructure solution for multi-location companies with high bandwidth requirements. OnFiber will also discuss how Ciena's ONLINE portfolio helps them create these high capacity, purpose-built, end to-end networks designed specifically to support customers’ individual business application and infrastructure requirements.
Deploying DWDM in a Triple Play Network (presented by Cox Communications)
Rapid subscriber growth and consumer demand for advanced services led Cox Communications, the nation's third largest cable operator, to scale its network with dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. As a full service provider of advanced communication products to residential and business customers, Cox required a next-generation solution to cost-effectively and reliably enable multiple services - voice, video, data - across a single network while streamlining network operations. This presentation details the process and results of Cox's partnership with Ciena to establish a profitable triple play network via DWDM platform.
Rapid subscriber growth and consumer demand for advanced services led Cox Communications, the nation's third largest cable operator, to scale its network with dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. As a full service provider of advanced communication products to residential and business customers, Cox required a next-generation solution to cost-effectively and reliably enable multiple services - voice, video, data - across a single network while streamlining network operations. This presentation details the process and results of Cox's partnership with Ciena to establish a profitable triple play network via DWDM platform.
Customer success stories
Progress Telecom (pdf)
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) required an efficient, highly-reliable and secure data network to deliver and manage high-quality services to its customers. Powered by Ciena’s CN 2600 Multiservice Edge Aggregator and ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform, Progress Telecom’s Optical Wavelength Service provides BCBSNC full-rate Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over a single fiber. As a result, the health care provider can quickly and easily add new services and additional channels and locations to its network without disruption.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) required an efficient, highly-reliable and secure data network to deliver and manage high-quality services to its customers. Powered by Ciena’s CN 2600 Multiservice Edge Aggregator and ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform, Progress Telecom’s Optical Wavelength Service provides BCBSNC full-rate Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over a single fiber. As a result, the health care provider can quickly and easily add new services and additional channels and locations to its network without disruption.
OnFiber Communications (pdf)
A large international business and IT consulting firm recently turned to OnFiber™ Communications and Ciena to protect its business operations in the event of a disaster. Utilizing Ciena’s ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform to carry multiple Fibre Channel signals between several data center locations, OnFiber successfully implemented a disaster recovery solution with remote backup and restoration capabilities to secure the firm’s network.
A large international business and IT consulting firm recently turned to OnFiber™ Communications and Ciena to protect its business operations in the event of a disaster. Utilizing Ciena’s ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform to carry multiple Fibre Channel signals between several data center locations, OnFiber successfully implemented a disaster recovery solution with remote backup and restoration capabilities to secure the firm’s network.
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