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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.

CUSTOMER STORY

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 

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