Ciena Insights
In the federal government space, mandates and initiatives to improve cyber readiness and optimize application-sharing and -collaboration have resulted in cloud and virtualization initiatives. Designed to provide a more efficient, modernization-ready environment, these initiatives are gaining steady momentum.
It’s no longer sufficient to expand and overlay legacy networks. These networks prolong service delivery times, require increasing operational costs for maintenance, and challenge the ability to maintain cyber resiliency. Network operators’ ability to implement the pivot to network modernization often gets mired in outdated resources and budget realities. But innovating in the cyber domain doesn’t require a complete network overhaul or a disruptive shift in network design.
Ciena’s innovation for the cyber domain gives network and IT leaders new approaches to:
- Enhance cyber security through encryption of data traversing the network, and more automated detection and response of threats to the network itself
- Improve overall cost efficiency by converging multiple layers into a single platform supporting legacy and future applications while simplifying overall network operations and management
- Enable the virtualization of connectivity resources to automate service delivery and more on-demand consumption to support growing utilization of cloud services and mobility
Today’s agency networks are strategic mission assets, and IT modernization must balance cost- and performance-optimization and cyber resiliency. We’ve worked with government agencies, global enterprises, and carriers to architect infrastructure to converge network layers, simplify network management, support the migration of legacy TDM/ SONET applications, and create a programmable, mission-responsive platform for today’s and tomorrow’s mission networks.