This white paper, developed in collaboration between Ciena and Microsoft, explores how zero-trust optical design can deliver resilient metro connectivity. Microsoft contributes its tiered optical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) architecture, while Ciena provides the foundational transport technologies—the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS), and the Waveserver® family. Together, this approach integrates two autonomous optical domains into one logical service layer, enabling continuous, fail-safe operation that protects workloads and maintains uptime across the network edge.
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Zero-trust optical transport: A tiered architecture for metro network resilience
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