Business need
In today’s economic environment, enterprise IT and networking departments are continually being asked to do more with less. CIOs and CFOs are looking for ways to cut costs without impacting the services provided to their internal users and external customers.Challenges
Over time, many enterprise networks have evolved using multiple services and technologies delivered by multiple service providers. This approach has contributed to the increased complexity and costs now commonly associated with an enterprise network. At the same time network managers are faced with the challenge of managing multiple networks that are siloed and separated, increasing their deployment times and consuming precious resource cycles and IT budgets.Solution
The answer to realizing significant cost and resource savings is to simplify networking services by consolidating and optimizing your infrastructure. By utilizing Wide Area Network (WAN) platforms, which reduce the amount of hardware while delivering the flexibility required to respond quickly to business needs, enterprises increase the performance of their network while reducing costs and complexities.Ciena's offerings
Ciena helps you consolidate any enterprise network using Multi-Service Provisioning Platforms (MSPPs), Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), Optical Ethernet and Storage/Local Area Network (LAN) extension solutions. Whether you use Ciena's SONET/SDH multiplexing to reduce the number of independent lower-speed private line services into one high-speed service (i.e., multiple DS1s, DS3s, 100bT into a managed OC-48 ring) or you consolidate voice, video, storage and LAN networks using Ciena's WDM and Storage/LAN extension, Ciena helps enterprises drastically reduce network connectivity costs and management and maintenance complexities. By working with Ciena, a network solution can be tailored to realize these savings and provide a fast ROI in a matter of months.Benefits
- Significantly reduce network connectivity costs
- Reduce network complexity
- Aggregate multiple networking services and applications onto one common platform
- Increase network performance while decreasing costs
- Unmatched flexibility delivers superior scalability without increased hardware costs
- Reduce network maintenance and management costs
