Modernizing the Bank Branch Office Network
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Historically, bank branch offices housed and maintained their respective IT infrastructures. This was costly and highly inefficient, and created significant compliance challenges. The requirement now is for a centralized, consolidated IT architecture that connects business processes across branches to support new ways of working and greater customer focus.
Historically, bank branch offices housed and maintained their respective IT infrastructures. This was costly and highly inefficient, and created significant compliance challenges. The requirement now is for a centralized, consolidated IT architecture that connects business processes across branches to support new ways of working and greater customer focus.
Managed Service Provider Solutions for the Financial Services Industry
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In today’s fiercely competitive business climate, increasing numbers of financial services companies—from large organizations with hundreds of employees to smaller, specialized firms—are looking to streamline their organizations to reduce operational costs and increase network productivity. The days of hefty network support staffs and unlimited infrastructure budgets are over.
In today’s fiercely competitive business climate, increasing numbers of financial services companies—from large organizations with hundreds of employees to smaller, specialized firms—are looking to streamline their organizations to reduce operational costs and increase network productivity. The days of hefty network support staffs and unlimited infrastructure budgets are over.
Managed Service Provider Solutions for the Healthcare Industry
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The federal government’s $20 billion-plus HITECH program is providing the monetary incentives for hospitals and doctors to transition to e-health record systems to improve efficiencies, cut costs, and boost quality of care and patient safety.
The federal government’s $20 billion-plus HITECH program is providing the monetary incentives for hospitals and doctors to transition to e-health record systems to improve efficiencies, cut costs, and boost quality of care and patient safety.
Native Digital Video Transport for the Content Production and Broadcasting Industries
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Broadcasters and film and television producers face the common challenge of transporting HD video content reliably and cost-effectively. Whether they need to transfer video between production studios (pre- and post-), or from an external venue to the production studios, the key considerations include signal integrity, cost and operational simplicity.
Broadcasters and film and television producers face the common challenge of transporting HD video content reliably and cost-effectively. Whether they need to transfer video between production studios (pre- and post-), or from an external venue to the production studios, the key considerations include signal integrity, cost and operational simplicity.
Coherent Optical Processing for High-Capacity Networks
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The paradox for today’s network providers is looming ever larger and faster: Increase available capacity for users, but do so at less cost. Equipment vendors have jumped into this issue wholeheartedly and are examining and offering a variety of techniques to solve this high-capacity bandwidth challenge. One solution in particular, pioneered by Ciena as the optimum approach and known as “coherent optical processing”, promises to help service providers solve their dilemma by allowing tremendous increases in capacity while keeping CAPEX and OPEX low.
The paradox for today’s network providers is looming ever larger and faster: Increase available capacity for users, but do so at less cost. Equipment vendors have jumped into this issue wholeheartedly and are examining and offering a variety of techniques to solve this high-capacity bandwidth challenge. One solution in particular, pioneered by Ciena as the optimum approach and known as “coherent optical processing”, promises to help service providers solve their dilemma by allowing tremendous increases in capacity while keeping CAPEX and OPEX low.
Enabling Next-Generation Healthcare Networks
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Driven in part by federal government legislation and incentives, healthcare providers are undertaking major initiatives to improve the overall quality of patient care and reduce medical errors. These providers have no choice but to adopt new life-saving, and also bandwidth-intensive, applications like telemedicine and PACS if they are to remain competitive and relevant. To overcome this challenge in a cost-effective manner, providers increasingly are adopting optical networking and Ethernet infrastructure to ensure that their critical patient data is delivered quickly and reliably throughout their networks.
Driven in part by federal government legislation and incentives, healthcare providers are undertaking major initiatives to improve the overall quality of patient care and reduce medical errors. These providers have no choice but to adopt new life-saving, and also bandwidth-intensive, applications like telemedicine and PACS if they are to remain competitive and relevant. To overcome this challenge in a cost-effective manner, providers increasingly are adopting optical networking and Ethernet infrastructure to ensure that their critical patient data is delivered quickly and reliably throughout their networks.
From Legacy to Smart Grid
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As utilities are seeing the demands on their networks grow tremendously, they are looking for ways to maximize network value—in terms of what it costs to operate the network, but also in the kind of value that the network contributes to the business. Ciena provides the powerful combination of the scalability and reliability of optical networking with the flexibility and low-cost economics of Ethernet to enable utilities to transition to reliable, next-generation application-driven networks.
As utilities are seeing the demands on their networks grow tremendously, they are looking for ways to maximize network value—in terms of what it costs to operate the network, but also in the kind of value that the network contributes to the business. Ciena provides the powerful combination of the scalability and reliability of optical networking with the flexibility and low-cost economics of Ethernet to enable utilities to transition to reliable, next-generation application-driven networks.
Evolving to a Smart Grid Energy Network
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Electric power systems constitute the fundamental infrastructure of modern society. Electric power grids and distribution networks reach virtually every home, office, factory, and institution in the industrialized world. While the basic electric grid design—based on concepts established over 75 years ago—has proven useful, its evolution has not kept up with advances in technology. Numerous pressures on the electric power delivery system are converging, forcing the system to evolve in different ways.
Electric power systems constitute the fundamental infrastructure of modern society. Electric power grids and distribution networks reach virtually every home, office, factory, and institution in the industrialized world. While the basic electric grid design—based on concepts established over 75 years ago—has proven useful, its evolution has not kept up with advances in technology. Numerous pressures on the electric power delivery system are converging, forcing the system to evolve in different ways.
Healthcare in the Public Sector
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The U.S. government is leading the charge to improve national, regional, and statewide healthcare for all people by providing significant financial backing to states and municipalities. Established in 2008, the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides states with a total of $40 billion as a catalyst to modernize healthcare systems and eventually create a national health information network.
The U.S. government is leading the charge to improve national, regional, and statewide healthcare for all people by providing significant financial backing to states and municipalities. Established in 2008, the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides states with a total of $40 billion as a catalyst to modernize healthcare systems and eventually create a national health information network.
The Energy Landscape: Generation, Transmission, and Consumption
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Utilities are implementing highly intelligent energy grids to improve operating efficiency and meet government mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These smart grids are powered by a two-way communications network that must be highly reliable and constantly available, yet affordable to install and operate. Ciena’s solutions include optical transport and Ethernet service delivery platforms, supported by network management and specialist services offerings that form a comprehensive energy communications network.
Utilities are implementing highly intelligent energy grids to improve operating efficiency and meet government mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These smart grids are powered by a two-way communications network that must be highly reliable and constantly available, yet affordable to install and operate. Ciena’s solutions include optical transport and Ethernet service delivery platforms, supported by network management and specialist services offerings that form a comprehensive energy communications network.
Taking Control of WAN Cost
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Positioning a company for growth on the heels of a recession requires a fresh look at the ways the enterprise networking infrastructure meets new business requirements. To meet the challenges of increasingly stringent competition, enterprises need a network that supports the new business plan, which defines requirements for network capacity, availability, and other characteristics while minimizing total cost.
Positioning a company for growth on the heels of a recession requires a fresh look at the ways the enterprise networking infrastructure meets new business requirements. To meet the challenges of increasingly stringent competition, enterprises need a network that supports the new business plan, which defines requirements for network capacity, availability, and other characteristics while minimizing total cost.
Wire-Speed Encryption Solution
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Whether supporting time-critical financial transactions, sensitive healthcare record storage, secure military communications, or simply wireless voice connections, today’s IT infrastructure is asked to do more than ever in an environment of increasing threats. Given the distributed nature of today’s leading-edge applications (such as sensor-based data gathering), the need for secure and reliable transmission facilities is ever-increasing.
Whether supporting time-critical financial transactions, sensitive healthcare record storage, secure military communications, or simply wireless voice connections, today’s IT infrastructure is asked to do more than ever in an environment of increasing threats. Given the distributed nature of today’s leading-edge applications (such as sensor-based data gathering), the need for secure and reliable transmission facilities is ever-increasing.
The Common Photonic Layer
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Common Photonic Layer (CPL) represents a significant development in the ongoing evolution to an Adaptive Optical Engine. CPL leverages years of proven expertise in developing and deploying optical network solutions and separates the optical line side from the service side. This service/photonic separation enables Ciena to deliver a highly flexible, optimized and intelligent common photonic layer to metro, regional and long-haul networks. This common approach eliminates the boundaries between each, thereby creating one converged, easy-to-operate, all-optical network.
Common Photonic Layer (CPL) represents a significant development in the ongoing evolution to an Adaptive Optical Engine. CPL leverages years of proven expertise in developing and deploying optical network solutions and separates the optical line side from the service side. This service/photonic separation enables Ciena to deliver a highly flexible, optimized and intelligent common photonic layer to metro, regional and long-haul networks. This common approach eliminates the boundaries between each, thereby creating one converged, easy-to-operate, all-optical network.
Low-Latency, High-Performance Optical Networking Solutions
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Financial services firms specializing in high-volume, high-frequency trading are looking to reduce network latency anywhere within the algorithmic-based trading work flow. In the past, efforts to reduce latency have been implemented with superfast computers, faster software and faster storage connections. Today, saving fractions of seconds by reducing data transport latency in network systems and fiber-based transport networks is receiving more attention. Ciena’s new low-latency, high-capacity fiber optic networking solutions address all of these demanding requirements.
Financial services firms specializing in high-volume, high-frequency trading are looking to reduce network latency anywhere within the algorithmic-based trading work flow. In the past, efforts to reduce latency have been implemented with superfast computers, faster software and faster storage connections. Today, saving fractions of seconds by reducing data transport latency in network systems and fiber-based transport networks is receiving more attention. Ciena’s new low-latency, high-capacity fiber optic networking solutions address all of these demanding requirements.
CN 4200 Enables Native HD Video, Critical for Real-Time Telemedicine and Telesurgery Applications
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Leading healthcare providers turn to interactive telemedicine to expand reach, improve care, and increase productivity. Faced with ongoing shortages of specialists and trained personnel and a greatly increased patient caseload, healthcare providers are challenged to meet growing service demands. Ciena's CN 4200 enables healthcare IT professionals to deliver high-capacity, highly available networks, to maintain a competitive edge in today’s strained healthcare system.
Leading healthcare providers turn to interactive telemedicine to expand reach, improve care, and increase productivity. Faced with ongoing shortages of specialists and trained personnel and a greatly increased patient caseload, healthcare providers are challenged to meet growing service demands. Ciena's CN 4200 enables healthcare IT professionals to deliver high-capacity, highly available networks, to maintain a competitive edge in today’s strained healthcare system.
A Robust High-Capacity Network for Healthcare EMR and PACS Applications
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Leading healthcare providers are deploying electronic records and imaging systems to improve patient care, reduce turnaround times, and gain significant operational and cost efficiencies. Healthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Ciena's 4200 Family enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to replace legacy leased-line infrastructures with high-capacity fiber networks that meet stringent EMR and PACS requirements.
Leading healthcare providers are deploying electronic records and imaging systems to improve patient care, reduce turnaround times, and gain significant operational and cost efficiencies. Healthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Ciena's 4200 Family enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to replace legacy leased-line infrastructures with high-capacity fiber networks that meet stringent EMR and PACS requirements.
Efficient Native Digital Video Transport for the Media and Entertainment Industries
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Broadcasters and film and television producers face the challenge of transporting HD video content. The CN 4200 helps broadcasters improve service quality, reliability, and cost by replacing satellite links with dark fiber or managed wavelengths. Producers can eliminate antiquated tape distribution methods and use optical networks to deliver original-quality content efficiently to dispersed post-production teams. The CN 4200 is the only optical service delivery platform capable of transporting HD video in uncompressed format over metro and regional distances with original signal integrity.
Broadcasters and film and television producers face the challenge of transporting HD video content. The CN 4200 helps broadcasters improve service quality, reliability, and cost by replacing satellite links with dark fiber or managed wavelengths. Producers can eliminate antiquated tape distribution methods and use optical networks to deliver original-quality content efficiently to dispersed post-production teams. The CN 4200 is the only optical service delivery platform capable of transporting HD video in uncompressed format over metro and regional distances with original signal integrity.
Leveraging Ethernet in Enterprise Campus Networks
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The proliferation of rich media content and the growing adoption of IP telephony, interactive video, and other time-sensitive, bandwidth-intensive business and educational applications are pushing enterprise campus networks to the limit. A Carrier Ethernet solution allows organizations to support these applications more effectively.
The proliferation of rich media content and the growing adoption of IP telephony, interactive video, and other time-sensitive, bandwidth-intensive business and educational applications are pushing enterprise campus networks to the limit. A Carrier Ethernet solution allows organizations to support these applications more effectively.
Modernization of Government and Public Networks
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Inherently inefficient, application-specific networks require expensive capital outlay each time a new application is adopted. As demand for the application grows or declines, there is no single means to scale network capacity nor a unified vision to accommodate emerging applications that directly yield public benefit. As the network specialist, Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.
Inherently inefficient, application-specific networks require expensive capital outlay each time a new application is adopted. As demand for the application grows or declines, there is no single means to scale network capacity nor a unified vision to accommodate emerging applications that directly yield public benefit. As the network specialist, Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.
Interconnecting Healthcare Providers
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Many hospital groups are placing patient records online—integrating medical information, billing records, pharmacy operations, and scheduling and registration data in comprehensive systems. Electronic health records are just one example of medical Information Technology (IT) used to improve patient safety, quality of care and clinical outcomes.
Many hospital groups are placing patient records online—integrating medical information, billing records, pharmacy operations, and scheduling and registration data in comprehensive systems. Electronic health records are just one example of medical Information Technology (IT) used to improve patient safety, quality of care and clinical outcomes.
Flexible and Reliable Healthcare Networks
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Changes in the healthcare industry and the adoption of new applications and bandwidth-intensive technologies are pushing legacy medical networks to the limit. Networks originally designed to support basic data communications services cannot meet the ever-growing demands imposed by contemporary healthcare applications. Ciena helps healthcare network planners overcome their business and technical challenges by delivering a dependable and flexible network infrastructure for effective healthcare automation.
Changes in the healthcare industry and the adoption of new applications and bandwidth-intensive technologies are pushing legacy medical networks to the limit. Networks originally designed to support basic data communications services cannot meet the ever-growing demands imposed by contemporary healthcare applications. Ciena helps healthcare network planners overcome their business and technical challenges by delivering a dependable and flexible network infrastructure for effective healthcare automation.
Advanced DWDM Solution for GDPS Environments
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By leveraging the CN 4200, GDPS customers can realize up to 75 percent reductions of wavelength counts required to support STP. With these savings, plus the delivery of unprecedented flexibility to WDM networks supporting GDPS, the CN 4200 serves as a valuable foundation for GDPS environments and hybrid CTN environments.
By leveraging the CN 4200, GDPS customers can realize up to 75 percent reductions of wavelength counts required to support STP. With these savings, plus the delivery of unprecedented flexibility to WDM networks supporting GDPS, the CN 4200 serves as a valuable foundation for GDPS environments and hybrid CTN environments.