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Enabling India to scale smarter, faster and greener with intelligent networks

Bharti Airtel is at the forefront of India’s digital transformation, with bold investments in 5G, AI-driven services and rural fiber helping to shape a connected, future-ready nation. With a strong infrastructure foundation and focus on innovation, sustainability and customer experience, Airtel is well-positioned to meet the country’s growing demand for high-speed, reliable connectivity. At Ciena, we deeply value our partnership with Airtel and are committed to supporting your vision with scalable, intelligent and adaptive network solutions. Together, we aim to accelerate time-to-market, simplify network operations and deliver secure, high-performance connectivity that reaches every corner of India’s digital economy.

Key challenges we help customers solve

AI and Automation

AI-driven networks create opportunities for network operators. Learn to take advantage of them with Ciena and our solutions for AI infrastructure.

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Network Resilience

By working with you as you build out Telstra’s diverse network routes, to deliver highly reliable solutions which feature integrated encryption and AI-driven autonomous management that help ensure consistent, high-speed connectivity and reliable performance and meet Telstra's stringent requirements.

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Network Modernization

Adaptive Network is Ciena's vision for evolving your network to meet today’s challenges while preparing for what’s next. Welcome to the Adaptive Network.

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Energy & Space Efficiency

We feel an innate responsibility to pursue technological innovation that can positively impact our environment for future generations and ensures responsible business practices.

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Automate Network Operations

Meet Navigator Network Control Suite (Navigator NCS), the software suite that helps you meet your operational goals and maximize your network performance.

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Achieve unprecedented performance and economic benefits

Providing ubiquitous 400G/800G connectivity with up to 1.6 Tb/s per wavelength, WaveLogic 6 brings the innovation you need to make meaningful impacts in network scale, economics, and power efficiencies.

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Unpredictable surges in bandwidth demand

Achieve dynamic scalability and network expansion with our coherent routing solution, featuring the latest in IP and optical innovation and cutting-edge multi-layer operations, automation, and services.

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Network Transformation

Accelerate your network transformation with our industry-leading experts, field-proven analytical tools, and tailored approach and methodology.

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Long-Haul Networks

Terrestrial & subsea networks, spanning vast distances overland and undersea, often face the challenge of scalability, reliability, and sustainability. As data demands continue to increase, these networks must adapt to handle the ever-increasing traffic while maintaining high performance. At Ciena, we provide network critical infrastructure that connects nations & continents to enable global communications.

Our advanced technologies ensure scalable, secure, and sustainable connections across vast transoceanic distances. Together, let's unlock the true potential of connectivity and embrace a future where seamless communication knows no bounds.

PRODUCT

Navigator Network Control Suite

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BLOG

The journey to 1.6T: Why 1.6T and what’s in it for you

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PRODUCT

WaveLogic 6

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6500 Reconfigurable Line System

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Metro and regional networks

We understand the importance of reliable, high-performance networks in metro regional networks. From fiber-based solutions to cutting-edge access platforms, we empower service providers to deliver fast, reliable, and scalable connectivity to homes, businesses, and public institutions. Leverage our advanced technologies to unlock flexible and scalable metro network solutions, including coherent routing for IP and optical network convergence utilizing pluggable technologies.

SOLUTION

Put coherent routing in the driver’s seat

Achieve dynamic scalability and network expansion with our coherent routing solution, featuring the latest in IP and optical innovation and cutting-edge multi-layer operations, automation, and services.

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SOLUTION

Metro optical architectures

Create opportunities for new services with a programmable, easily configurable metro optical architecture solution that turns your network into an innovation platform to help you grow your business.

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PON ecosystem

Ciena's XGS-PON ecosystem flattens traditional chassis-based PON power consumption and space while converging broadband, 5G and cloud services, where and when your customers need. All on the same Routing and Switching platform.

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SOLUTION

Broadband

Ciena’s broadband approach offers a smarter Passive Optical Network (PON) and next-gen architecture coupled with marketing support, allowing you to make a more sustainable investment.

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PRODUCT

xHaul Routers

Fully programmable, scalable, disaggregated, and SDN-ready platforms to address your unique requirements, from access to metro

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SOLUTION

Edge routing and switching

Minimize deployment and infrastructure expenses and ensure the highest levels of assurance and agility in your edge routing and switching.

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Blogs & Insights

Artificial intelligence

Discover how AI is transforming network optimization and automation, enhancing agilit...

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White Paper

Optimizing passive optical networks with coherent innovation

This paper examines coherent passive optical networks (CPONs) and their role in advan...

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The state of Segment Routing: A look at the past, present, and future

It’s been two years since our last research study on the role of Segment Routing (SR)...

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WaveRouter: Three examples of metro routing done differently

Ciena’s Nicola Benvenuti details just a few of the business case examples this unique...

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Entering the promised land of IP and optical convergence

Heavy Reading’s Sterling Perrin talks about the new era of IP and optical convergence...

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As we work to deploy 5G more widely, Ciena plays an integral role in providing an agile network foundation to satisfy our customers’ dynamic requirements.

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