Business need

Today, government agencies are saddled with numerous costly, disparate networks that can not scale to support new and emerging applications. Emerging applications such as web services, remote data replication and distributed computing are introducing requirements for high-bandwidth and high-performance connectivity on agency networks, forcing agencies to rethink their network strategy. New and changing network requirements demand solutions that can evolve quickly and flexibly.

Challenges

Government agency networks have been deployed largely based on legacy platforms or traditional carrier-based network services, both of which provide limited ability for evolving agency connectivity requirements. These requirements cause long lead times, increase costs to government networks, and force the deployment of new networks to support updated applications. Therefore, agencies must manage numerous networks, which is inefficient, expensive and a hindrance to the introduction of new applications.

Solution

Tremendous savings result from consolidating voice, data, storage and video networks to a common campus, metro or regional network that supports all agency applications with the connectivity required for each. With multiservice optical and Ethernet networking equipment, an enterprise can consolidate multiple lower-speed services or protocols over a converged optical backbone. These solutions can be available as standalone networks owned and operated by agencies or their integrators, or by service providers as private network builds implemented under their managed services offerings.

Ciena's offerings

Ciena's assured, adaptive network solutions enable seamless migration of disparate, legacy networks to unified multiservice networks, optimizing operational efficiency and delivering cost savings, without disrupting existing applications. Ciena's portfolio is comprised of next-generation, multi-function platforms that flexibly support any mix of TDM, SONET, WDM, Ethernet, video and storage interfaces to streamline existing networks. Ciena provides a suite of products for consolidating multiple networks, including Multiservice Provisioning Platforms (MSPPs), Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and optical Ethernet and storage/LAN extension solutions. Today, Ciena's solutions are proven in multiple government agencies, including the Department of Energy (DoE), Department of Defense (DoD) and civilian agencies.

Benefits

• Unprecedented flexibility and automation lowers total cost of ownership
• Converged multi-function platforms let you optimize your network for maximum efficiency and lower operating costs
• Investment for the future: Ciena’s products are scalable and flexible, supporting changing network requirements and traffic growth
• Simplified management eases the complexity of operating a network. Automated design, configuration and management with point-and-click provisioning save considerable time, effort and manpower
• Ciena’s carrier-class platforms meet stringent government reliability standards with redundancy in system architecture and extensive testing of software