Private line wavelength services: Sell high-bandwidth, multi-protocol services without exhausting your SONET/SDH network
Offer your largest customers the capacity they need

Business need

Enterprises are looking for economical methods to interconnect geographically separated data centers and equipment to meet new requirements for disaster recovery and ongoing needs, saving money through consolidating networks onto a common backbone. When your enterprise customers want higher rate services, you need to accommodate these demands without being forced into major capital outlays.

Challenges

Service providers offering high-capacity services to enterprise customers need to accommodate increasing demands for bandwidth with differentiated services and solutions that can be tailored flexibly to meet the needs of enterprise applications. In addition, providers want to streamline operations and management by supporting multiple services over integrated platforms.

Solution

Avoid dedicating fiber for enterprise access by instead offering private line wavelength services using Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. Ciena’s FlexSelect™ Architecture features the CN 4200®  family, a scalable product family that offers differentiated high-speed managed services over wavelengths and optimizes network capacity for these and other revenue-generating services. It lets you address high-bandwidth requirements for storage backup and disaster recovery without exhausting your network capacity.

Ciena's offerings

Ciena—a leader and pioneer in WDM technology—offers a family of WDM platforms that offer flexible, scalable and profitable private line wavelength services. Ciena offers low-cost, high-quality platforms that allow you to operate native optical Ethernet and storage connectivity services alongside your SONET/SDH services. You can offer services at rates up to and including 10 Gigabit, and support multiple protocols—such as Ethernet, FICON®, Fibre Channel, or ESCON®. Ciena solutions allow you to manage the wavelengths as well as the services running over them, so you can upsell management services to existing customers and differentiate to capture new enterprise customers.

Benefits

  • Deliver higher-speed, higher-revenue services to enterprise customers
  • Offers integrated management of wavelengths and services
  • Simplify network operations and management and reduce the cost of spares by deploying integrated, multiservice WDM platforms
  • Support disaster recovery, storage and other high-speed service requirements