Regional service providers
Make the most of your network infrastructure
Keep up with bandwidth demands and differentiate your business through a next-generation approach to access and aggregation networks—designed to last and adapt. Build for broadband, diversify with business services, monetize with wholesale demands. Strengthen your network in these key areas.
Modular and scalable
Anything, anywhere, whenever you want. Leverage the flexibility of pluggable interfaces, from XGS-PON μOLTs to 1/10/25GbE Ethernet and 400GbE coherent optics in modular, scalable, and compact routing platforms.
Open and adaptive
Our open-by-design next-gen metro and edge networks easily integrate with existing infrastructure. Adapt to evolving requirements with a rich feature set and programmable and versatile hardware and software.
Converged efficiency
One network, multiple services. Unlock new revenue with a network that seamlessly supports new business and wholesale services, including 5G transport.
MLGC powers digital experiences in rural North Dakota with Ciena’s Coherent Routing
“With our new future-forward, multi-layer network, we’re well equipped to handle the cloudification of apps and services and provide our enterprise and residential customers with tuned performance, optimized SLAs and unsurpassed quality of experience.”
—Tyler Kilde, President and General Manager of MLGC
Our regional service providers technology and services
ROUTING + SWITCHING
Coherent routing
We offer a full suite of next-gen coherent routers for network access, aggregation, and metro powered by a modern service-aware operating system (SAOS).
OPTICAL NETWORKING
Optical platforms
From the 6500 Family of Packet-Optical Platforms to the highly efficient Waveserver® Family and Coherent ELS, our optical innovation delivers adaptable solutions.
MULTI-LAYER CONTROL
Manage, Control and Plan (MCP)
Our MCP Applications provide analytics, software control, and automation—integrated in a single interface—to optimize multi-layer network resiliency and performance.
Ciena Services
We leverage decades of expertise and innovation to help you build, operate, and improve your network and achieve your business objectives.
Insights
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Broadband
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Coherent routing
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Metro optical architectures
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