Ciena Insights
By letting the control plane optimize for service changes, operators can reduce CAPEX and OPEX, but also greatly simplify their network. Ultimately, this means faster provisioning of Layer 0-2 services, differentiation via a wide range of SLA offerings, faster fault isolation and service recovery, and a flexible programmable network foundation that can operate in an SDN architecture.
Programmable coherent optics drive new levels of network economics, providing the ability to maximize capacity per application—and fiber—and drive down cost per bit. But there’s more. They can also be used to protect the network against security breaches, encrypting all in-flight data, all the time, with no impact to the user experience.