Ciena’s WaveRouter™ is a family of purpose-built coherent metro routers designed to unify IP and optical in the metro—with ultimate flexibility, future-proof extensibility, and improved network sustainability. WaveRouter can easily and flexibly scale wide-area network (WAN) traffic—with the ability to scale up and out, delivering capacity when and where it’s needed. With optional WaveLogic™ capabilities, WaveRouter can support dense, any-to-any, high-capacity coherent routing-and-switching metro applications.
Introducing our expanded family of disruptive routers for more choices to converge your network
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