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Reducing traffic congestion and highway accidents, decreasing travel times, alerting drivers to hazards, ensuring speedy response to adverse road conditions and emergencies and delivering a higher quality motorist experience – all while adhering to staff and budget limitations. These are just a few of the challenges facing state and local government departments of transportation. The need to enable real-time transmission of data from intelligent transportation systems devices while laying the foundation for autonomous vehicles is straining networks. Network engineers and operations managers need network technologies that can meet the needs of today’s digital transportation applications, while scaling to the future needs of automated highways, ubiquitous broadband, and an increasingly software-defined environment.

Ciena enables transportation in these strategic areas:

Modernize networks to support future innovations and broadband initiatives

Ensure networks are ready to support autonomous vehicles and provide capacity for rural broadband initiatives

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Next-generation networks to support ITS

Deliver performance and real-time requirements of new ITS applications

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Resilient networks to ensure “always-on” applications

Provide 24x7 availability to key ITS applications and data, with no downtime due to disasters

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Modernize networks to support future innovations and broadband initiatives

Ensure networks are ready to support autonomous vehicles and provide capacity for rural broadband initiatives.

Verizon and Ciena leaders discuss how a communication network built on 5G and fiber can support the digitization of infrastructure.

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Bridging the Gap Together, Delivering Broadband to Rural Communities

In this panel discussion, you’ll hear from a utility in Alabama (Cullman Electric) that launched scalable broadband to its rural community and more.

Ciena played a key role in enabling Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) realize its vision by upgrading the network infrastructure to support new capabilities.

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The Road to Automation: Practical Steps Transportation Leaders Can Take to Achieve Network Modernization

Learn more about the role of automation, virtualization, and cloud in simplifying and streamlining network management

The funding from the FY 2021 Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act present a much-needed opportunity for state and local DOTs.

IT infrastructure at the edge is essential to day-to-day government operations. Application servers et al keep remote agency locations connected to the citizens

Articles

Smart Transit: Moving Beyond Points A and B

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains smart transit, the smart rail experience of the future is a fully integrated experience.

Ciena can bring state DOT networks to a ‘carrier-grade’ level to provide the bandwidth required to support the growing number of sensors, video cameras et al.

Podcasts

Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 31: An Avalanche of Data – Colorado’s Roadways of the Future

CDOT’s Bob Fifer and John Williams share what network requirements are needed to maintain the 28 billion miles of annual vehicle travel on Colorado’s roadways

Next-generation networks to support ITS

Ensure performance and delivery of new ITS applications through next-generation packet optical network technology

Road networks are getting smarter, with sensors and networks helping transportation agencies manage congestion and improve safety for drivers and pedestrians.

Some of the most exciting technologies for governments are being developed and deployed to improve one of the most vexing public sector challenges.

Articles

Next-generation networks help DOT’s deliver quality motorist experience

Converged packet-optical technology enhances Department of Transportation’s intelligent transportation systems while paving the way for future automated highways.

Podcasts

Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 31: An Avalanche of Data – Colorado’s Roadways of the Future

CDOT’s Bob Fifer and John Williams share what network requirements are needed to maintain the 28 billion miles of annual vehicle travel on Colorado’s roadways

Articles

Want to simplify and automate your Department of Transportation MPLS network? Try Segment Routing.

As intelligent transportation technologies evolve in sophistication to improve safety and reduce congestion, Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains how the network that connects thousands of these digital devices must also evolve.

Articles

Is technology the answer to stopping unsafe driving behaviors?

All of us at times, are guilty of unsafe driving. Learn about a project Ciena is working on with the Colorado Department of Transportation to reduce traffic accidents and make our daily travels safer.

Ciena’s Adaptive Network provides the technology foundation needed to simplify, scale, and automate today’s ITS and make our roads smarter and safer.

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How An Adaptive Network Helps the Colorado Department of Transportation Make Travel Safer and More Convenient

Learn more about the technologies that make up the Adaptive Network, and how they help CDOT reduce complexity in a dynamic network and impact the future of transportation.

Ciena can bring state DOT networks to a ‘carrier-grade’ level to provide the bandwidth required to support the growing number of sensors, video cameras et al.

Resilient networks to ensure “always-on” applications

Build redundancy into the network to ensure that key applications and data are available 24x7, with no downtime due to emergency or disaster

Road networks are getting smarter, with sensors and networks helping transportation agencies manage congestion and improve safety for drivers and pedestrians.

Watch to see how the right next-generation network technology and design can help DOTs ensure their networks are always on and ready.

Network optimization is an essential tactic for ensuring organizations have the on-demand connectivity, availability, and performance that modern applications require.

Articles

Is your network putting the brakes on your intelligent transportation system?

As intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications become more sophisticated, ensuring network uptime has become increasingly difficult for state departments of transportation (DOTs). Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda highlights how DOT’s can add resiliency

IT professionals encounter seemingly endless challenges and demands that can impact the quality of the motorist experience. Any threat or vulnerability that impedes traffic manager access to data from remote roadside ‘smart’ devices can cause serious

Ciena can bring state DOT networks to a ‘carrier-grade’ level to provide the bandwidth required to support the growing number of sensors, video cameras et al.

Podcasts

Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 31: An Avalanche of Data – Colorado’s Roadways of the Future

CDOT’s Bob Fifer and John Williams share what network requirements are needed to maintain the 28 billion miles of annual vehicle travel on Colorado’s roadways

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