Universal Broadband Access (pdf)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 funds programs to build universal, sustainable access to broadband Internet services that foster education, public safety, government efficiency, and commercial activity. This vision for universal, high-performance broadband requires network operators to address the unique needs of a wide range of network users by constructing a full-service metro network leveraging existing technologies—such as Ethernet and OTN—to provide rapidly scalable and reliable service.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 funds programs to build universal, sustainable access to broadband Internet services that foster education, public safety, government efficiency, and commercial activity. This vision for universal, high-performance broadband requires network operators to address the unique needs of a wide range of network users by constructing a full-service metro network leveraging existing technologies—such as Ethernet and OTN—to provide rapidly scalable and reliable service.
Low-Latency, High-Performance Optical Networking Solutions (pdf)
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.
The Energy Landscape: Generation, Transmission, and Consumption (pdf)
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.
CN 4200 Enables Native HD Video, Critical for Real-Time Telemedicine and Telesurgery Applications (pdf)
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. Cieana'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. Cieana'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 (pdf)
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. Using the CN 4200, hospitals can replace legacy leased-line infrastructures with high-capacity fiber networks and take advantage of EMRs, a remote PACS, and other contemporary applications and services. By leveraging the latest innovations in healthcare IT, hospitals can improve staff productivity, bolster care quality, and increase patient satisfaction while reducing operating costs.
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. Using the CN 4200, hospitals can replace legacy leased-line infrastructures with high-capacity fiber networks and take advantage of EMRs, a remote PACS, and other contemporary applications and services. By leveraging the latest innovations in healthcare IT, hospitals can improve staff productivity, bolster care quality, and increase patient satisfaction while reducing operating costs.
Efficient Native Digital Video Transport for the Media and Entertainment Industries (pdf)
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.
High-Quality Carrier Ethernet Services using Metro Packet Optical Transport (pdf)
To capture and retain the most discerning high-value enterprise customers, contain costs, and maximize profitability in the face of heavy competition, service providers must replace or augment first-generation, standalone Ethernet switches and basic Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH solutions with a more scalable, manageable, and deterministic service architecture.
To capture and retain the most discerning high-value enterprise customers, contain costs, and maximize profitability in the face of heavy competition, service providers must replace or augment first-generation, standalone Ethernet switches and basic Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH solutions with a more scalable, manageable, and deterministic service architecture.
Metro Packet Optical Transport for Differentiated Triple Play Services (pdf)
Facilities-based providers and ISPs taking advantage of local loop unbundling recognize the strategic and economic value of bundling broadband video, voice, and Internet access services to home subscribers. Growing and retaining a Triple Play customer base is desirable only if the service is profitable—a condition that requires a cost-effective and reliable metro aggregation and distribution network with guaranteed service quality and resource efficiency.
Facilities-based providers and ISPs taking advantage of local loop unbundling recognize the strategic and economic value of bundling broadband video, voice, and Internet access services to home subscribers. Growing and retaining a Triple Play customer base is desirable only if the service is profitable—a condition that requires a cost-effective and reliable metro aggregation and distribution network with guaranteed service quality and resource efficiency.
Leveraging Ethernet in Enterprise Campus Networks (pdf)
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.
Automated End-to-End Managed Service Delivery and Capacity Allocation (pdf)
End-to-end managed services are becoming key elements for profitability, enabling network operators to differentiate service offerings with more than just transport capacity. The synergy of CoreDirector, CN 4200, and ON-Center provides operators the ability to transform networks into operationally scalable, programmable service-delivery engines for cost-effective on-demand, end-to-end, managed services with six-9s availability and rapid infrastructure capacity allocation.
End-to-end managed services are becoming key elements for profitability, enabling network operators to differentiate service offerings with more than just transport capacity. The synergy of CoreDirector, CN 4200, and ON-Center provides operators the ability to transform networks into operationally scalable, programmable service-delivery engines for cost-effective on-demand, end-to-end, managed services with six-9s availability and rapid infrastructure capacity allocation.
Economic Benefits of End-to-End OTN Service Switching (pdf)
The unrelenting growth of bandwidth demand is causing a number of dilemmas for network operators—including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services. End-to-end OTN service switching is the most economical way to compete for and handle the growth in high-bandwidth optical services. No other solution allows operators to turn up new services faster and more efficiently while removing the cost of uncertainty in future traffic mix.
The unrelenting growth of bandwidth demand is causing a number of dilemmas for network operators—including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services. End-to-end OTN service switching is the most economical way to compete for and handle the growth in high-bandwidth optical services. No other solution allows operators to turn up new services faster and more efficiently while removing the cost of uncertainty in future traffic mix.
Delivering True Carrier Ethernet Business Services (pdf)
A number of business trends—including the maturation of virtualization and cloud-based applications—are impacting service provider networks and service consumption. Service providers must adapt quickly in an environment where demand for services is evolving continuously, network traffic distribution is changing constantly, and bandwidth is growing continually. Pure cost reduction, although very important, is no longer sufficient; the emphasis must shift to growing top-line revenue through the creation and deployment of new Ethernet business services with greater velocity, automation, and customization.
A number of business trends—including the maturation of virtualization and cloud-based applications—are impacting service provider networks and service consumption. Service providers must adapt quickly in an environment where demand for services is evolving continuously, network traffic distribution is changing constantly, and bandwidth is growing continually. Pure cost reduction, although very important, is no longer sufficient; the emphasis must shift to growing top-line revenue through the creation and deployment of new Ethernet business services with greater velocity, automation, and customization.
Flexible and Reliable Healthcare Networks (pdf)
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.
The Strategic Imperative of an Ethernet Metro Aggregation Network (pdf)
IP and Ethernet traffic is growing approximately 40 percent per year. Unfortunately, by 2010, broadband and wireless service revenues are projected to grow only 10 and three percent respectively. Service providers must better monetize this traffic growth while optimizing the service delivery architecture, and controlling both CAPEX and OPEX for rapidly growing and evolving IP and Ethernet services.
IP and Ethernet traffic is growing approximately 40 percent per year. Unfortunately, by 2010, broadband and wireless service revenues are projected to grow only 10 and three percent respectively. Service providers must better monetize this traffic growth while optimizing the service delivery architecture, and controlling both CAPEX and OPEX for rapidly growing and evolving IP and Ethernet services.
Wireless Backhaul Network Solutions Enabled by Ciena's Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery Portfolio (pdf)
Mobile operators must reduce the cost-per-bit of data transport in the backhaul network while continuing to provide greater bandwidth for new high-speed data services, ensure voice quality, maintain carrier-grade OAM and provide circuit-like resilience. Carrier Ethernet technology provides a solution to these backhaul problems. With its CESD portfolio, Ciena has found a way to maximize the value of Carrier Ethernet for successful backhaul services.
Mobile operators must reduce the cost-per-bit of data transport in the backhaul network while continuing to provide greater bandwidth for new high-speed data services, ensure voice quality, maintain carrier-grade OAM and provide circuit-like resilience. Carrier Ethernet technology provides a solution to these backhaul problems. With its CESD portfolio, Ciena has found a way to maximize the value of Carrier Ethernet for successful backhaul services.
Modernization of Government and Public Networks (pdf)
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.
Gigabit Ethernet Transport using the CN 4200 (pdf)
Soon broadband service providers will see their entire infrastructure—from broadband access concentrators to servers to routers—connected exclusively by Ethernet. Rapid changes in how the Internet is used are driving providers to upgrade and evolve their transport networks so their DSLAM, CMTS or PON OLT can continue to function in a mushrooming online environment.
Soon broadband service providers will see their entire infrastructure—from broadband access concentrators to servers to routers—connected exclusively by Ethernet. Rapid changes in how the Internet is used are driving providers to upgrade and evolve their transport networks so their DSLAM, CMTS or PON OLT can continue to function in a mushrooming online environment.
Easy Enterprise Connectivity - Rapid, low-cost Ethernet transport over WDM using the CN 4200 (pdf)
The increased need for speed and scalability in today’s networks requires Gigabit Ethernet. Enterprises and government agencies are driving Ethernet to become ubiquitous in their own network infrastructure. These entities realize the key to an efficient IT shop is keeping users productive, and are looking to extend this networking best-practice to the WAN to meet the need for data-friendly bandwidth for advanced applications and data transport in a mushrooming networking environment.
The increased need for speed and scalability in today’s networks requires Gigabit Ethernet. Enterprises and government agencies are driving Ethernet to become ubiquitous in their own network infrastructure. These entities realize the key to an efficient IT shop is keeping users productive, and are looking to extend this networking best-practice to the WAN to meet the need for data-friendly bandwidth for advanced applications and data transport in a mushrooming networking environment.
Enhancing Carrier-Managed Services using Multiservice Metro Optical Transport (pdf)
The growing popularity of high-bandwidth, carrier-managed services is increasing carriers’ need for a service delivery platform with the agility to support a growing range of services and the scalability available only in WDM equipment. Ciena’s CN 4200 family, with integrated Layer 2 switching and advanced optical transport, allows carriers to offer a full suite of Layer 1- and Layer 2-based carrier-managed services for the most desirable enterprise applications.
The growing popularity of high-bandwidth, carrier-managed services is increasing carriers’ need for a service delivery platform with the agility to support a growing range of services and the scalability available only in WDM equipment. Ciena’s CN 4200 family, with integrated Layer 2 switching and advanced optical transport, allows carriers to offer a full suite of Layer 1- and Layer 2-based carrier-managed services for the most desirable enterprise applications.
Dynamic Wavelength Routing: The Sensible Approach to ROADM (pdf)
ROADM systems add an all-optical switching capability to the network that can be extremely valuable to carriers. The agility to switch, drop, and add traffic at the optical layer becomes more important as service bandwidth profiles approach the 10 or 40 Gb/s data rates of a wavelength. Ciena's CN 4200 ROADM saves immediate capital expense and provides the scalability to defer the cost of adding bandwidth on the network.
ROADM systems add an all-optical switching capability to the network that can be extremely valuable to carriers. The agility to switch, drop, and add traffic at the optical layer becomes more important as service bandwidth profiles approach the 10 or 40 Gb/s data rates of a wavelength. Ciena's CN 4200 ROADM saves immediate capital expense and provides the scalability to defer the cost of adding bandwidth on the network.
Advanced DWDM Solution for GDPS Environments (pdf)
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.
Broadcast and Digital Simulcast (pdf)
As telephone companies and satellite providers intensify competition for Triple Play services, Ciena’s carrier-grade FlexSelect™ solution ensures that cable MSOs can provide the highest quality and service availability in the industry—with a graceful migration to an all-digital solution.
As telephone companies and satellite providers intensify competition for Triple Play services, Ciena’s carrier-grade FlexSelect™ solution ensures that cable MSOs can provide the highest quality and service availability in the industry—with a graceful migration to an all-digital solution.
Think Storage Network Extension, Think Ciena (pdf)
Choosing the right storage network extension solution is based upon the amount of data that needs to be moved between data centers, the performance requirements of the applications in use and the solution’s cost. Luckily, regardless of whether an organization is replicating a single terabyte (TB) database across town, or moving 50 TB to a new data center located hundreds of miles away, Ciena provides a best-in-class solution for robust, secure, resilient and high-capacity storage extension networks.
Choosing the right storage network extension solution is based upon the amount of data that needs to be moved between data centers, the performance requirements of the applications in use and the solution’s cost. Luckily, regardless of whether an organization is replicating a single terabyte (TB) database across town, or moving 50 TB to a new data center located hundreds of miles away, Ciena provides a best-in-class solution for robust, secure, resilient and high-capacity storage extension networks.
Smart Solutions: Ciena Optical Networking (pdf)
Ciena's Adaptive WAN technology enables the consolidation of disparate, legacy networks into a unified, multiservice optical network that optimizes operational efficiency and delivers cost savings. Equally important, the Adaptive WAN architecture provides the high bandwidth required by emerging applications, while ensuring support for legacy applications.
Ciena's Adaptive WAN technology enables the consolidation of disparate, legacy networks into a unified, multiservice optical network that optimizes operational efficiency and delivers cost savings. Equally important, the Adaptive WAN architecture provides the high bandwidth required by emerging applications, while ensuring support for legacy applications.
Carrier Managed Wavelength Services (pdf)
IXCs, IOCs and other competitive carriers are facing growing demands from their customers for increased bandwidth and other packet-based services. At the same time, these carriers still need to satisfy their customers in the slower growing SONET/SDH and ATM/Frame Relay markets. Ciena’s Managed Wavelength solution is based on the CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform, which breaks both the cost and bandwidth barriers of traditional solutions with high speed, highly scalable carrier-grade optical Ethernet. Simply put, this solution will deliver managed services end-to-end and ultimately drive revenue and profitability.
IXCs, IOCs and other competitive carriers are facing growing demands from their customers for increased bandwidth and other packet-based services. At the same time, these carriers still need to satisfy their customers in the slower growing SONET/SDH and ATM/Frame Relay markets. Ciena’s Managed Wavelength solution is based on the CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform, which breaks both the cost and bandwidth barriers of traditional solutions with high speed, highly scalable carrier-grade optical Ethernet. Simply put, this solution will deliver managed services end-to-end and ultimately drive revenue and profitability.
Think Assured Optical Networks, Think Ciena (pdf)
With Ciena's assured Adaptive WANs, agencies are finding tremendous econonomic and strategic advantages in consolidating voice, data, storage and video networks into a high-performance optical network that supports all applications between large agency locations and data centers.
With Ciena's assured Adaptive WANs, agencies are finding tremendous econonomic and strategic advantages in consolidating voice, data, storage and video networks into a high-performance optical network that supports all applications between large agency locations and data centers.
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.
Metro/Regional 10G Transport (pdf)
Metro networks are experiencing an increased burden to supply adequate bandwidth. New packet-based services place significant bandwidth requirements on the network, requiring operators to perform costly upgrades, often times with poor ROI. Ciena’s Metro/Regional 10G transport solution based on the CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform breaks traditional cost and bandwidth barriers with a high-speed, highly scalable carrier-grade 10 Gb/s optical transport solution.
Metro networks are experiencing an increased burden to supply adequate bandwidth. New packet-based services place significant bandwidth requirements on the network, requiring operators to perform costly upgrades, often times with poor ROI. Ciena’s Metro/Regional 10G transport solution based on the CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform breaks traditional cost and bandwidth barriers with a high-speed, highly scalable carrier-grade 10 Gb/s optical transport solution.
Secure Optical Networks for Financial Firms (pdf)
Financial firms' networks are experiencing exponential traffic growth. Many firms are deploying new applications that are generating enormous amounts of XML traffic—a particularly verbose protocol. New government regulations are driving increased usage of storage systems. And, heightened sensitivity to Business Continuance/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) has many implementing database mirroring over longer distances. In response to these growing demands, firms must upgrade their networks.
Financial firms' networks are experiencing exponential traffic growth. Many firms are deploying new applications that are generating enormous amounts of XML traffic—a particularly verbose protocol. New government regulations are driving increased usage of storage systems. And, heightened sensitivity to Business Continuance/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) has many implementing database mirroring over longer distances. In response to these growing demands, firms must upgrade their networks.
Global 2000 Enterprise Connectivity (pdf)
Large enterprises and institutions typically connect their data centers, sales offices, manufacturing plants and R&D centers using an owned or leased private fiber network or a carrier-provided wavelength service. The resources required for network implementation are expensive and enterprises need to drive as much utilization from these resources as possible. Ciena's CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform is a truly multiservice solution that is transparent to underlying applications and can aggregate multiple disparate service connections onto a single fiber or even a single wavelength.
Large enterprises and institutions typically connect their data centers, sales offices, manufacturing plants and R&D centers using an owned or leased private fiber network or a carrier-provided wavelength service. The resources required for network implementation are expensive and enterprises need to drive as much utilization from these resources as possible. Ciena's CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform is a truly multiservice solution that is transparent to underlying applications and can aggregate multiple disparate service connections onto a single fiber or even a single wavelength.
Wholesale Optical Services (pdf)
Today’s wholesale optical services market is driven by two fundamental factors. First, IXCs with long-haul WDM infrastructure that offer Metro-to-Metro connectivity but do not have direct access to all customer buildings. Second, LECs—particularly competitive service providers and even cable MSOs—that offer managed optical services within their Metro networks but cannot attract large enterprise accounts because they are unable to offer services between Metro regions. Ciena’s Wholesale Optical Services solution breaks both the cost and bandwidth barriers of traditional solutions with high-speed, highly scalable, carrier-grade optical Ethernet. Based on the CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform, ITU G.709 compliant OTU Digital Wrapper technology allows the Ciena solution to transparently manage other protocols across the network on a single wavelength.
Today’s wholesale optical services market is driven by two fundamental factors. First, IXCs with long-haul WDM infrastructure that offer Metro-to-Metro connectivity but do not have direct access to all customer buildings. Second, LECs—particularly competitive service providers and even cable MSOs—that offer managed optical services within their Metro networks but cannot attract large enterprise accounts because they are unable to offer services between Metro regions. Ciena’s Wholesale Optical Services solution breaks both the cost and bandwidth barriers of traditional solutions with high-speed, highly scalable, carrier-grade optical Ethernet. Based on the CN 4200™ FlexSelect™ Advanced Services Platform, ITU G.709 compliant OTU Digital Wrapper technology allows the Ciena solution to transparently manage other protocols across the network on a single wavelength.
Interconnecting Healthcare Providers (pdf)
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.
Ethernet Compression (pdf)
Enterprises IP networks that connect multiple locations across long distances often use Ethernet as the protocol of choice, because it provides high throughput to key data center applications. This demand for inter-data center connectivity continues to grow as enterprises support more remote applications, and they must do so with limited budgets and without allowing IP congestion issues to affect application performance. Ciena’s CN 2000™ Storage Extension Platform is a powerful solution for IP congestion issues at the edge of the data center, because it maximizes WAN efficiency and provides increased throughput, while leveraging existing assets without requiring additional WAN bandwidth.
Enterprises IP networks that connect multiple locations across long distances often use Ethernet as the protocol of choice, because it provides high throughput to key data center applications. This demand for inter-data center connectivity continues to grow as enterprises support more remote applications, and they must do so with limited budgets and without allowing IP congestion issues to affect application performance. Ciena’s CN 2000™ Storage Extension Platform is a powerful solution for IP congestion issues at the edge of the data center, because it maximizes WAN efficiency and provides increased throughput, while leveraging existing assets without requiring additional WAN bandwidth.
Fiber Relief (pdf)
Over the years, cable operators have deployed and consumed many fiber strands between the headend and hubs as well as between headends in a region. This capacity problem has not been solved and today, bandwidth demand is growing faster than ever due to VOD, HDTV and new high speed data applications. Deploying new fiber is an lengthy, expensive process that delays service roll out. Ciena solutions can provide the added capacity to existing fiber that MSOs require for new service applications.
Over the years, cable operators have deployed and consumed many fiber strands between the headend and hubs as well as between headends in a region. This capacity problem has not been solved and today, bandwidth demand is growing faster than ever due to VOD, HDTV and new high speed data applications. Deploying new fiber is an lengthy, expensive process that delays service roll out. Ciena solutions can provide the added capacity to existing fiber that MSOs require for new service applications.
Supporting Triple Play Services on a Converged Network (pdf)
Operators are bundling voice services along with their existing digital video and high-speed data services on the same broadband connection. Because all of these services are packet-based, it makes sense to transport all of them on a common network infrastructure. Cable operators can use an Optical Ethernet solution from Ciena to create a highly scalable, yet cost-effective “triple play” network that provides the service availability and QoS necessary to support all three service types.
Operators are bundling voice services along with their existing digital video and high-speed data services on the same broadband connection. Because all of these services are packet-based, it makes sense to transport all of them on a common network infrastructure. Cable operators can use an Optical Ethernet solution from Ciena to create a highly scalable, yet cost-effective “triple play” network that provides the service availability and QoS necessary to support all three service types.
