Broadband
A path to better broadband
Flexibility for today. Scalability for tomorrow.
The challenge
With ever-increasing bandwidth demand and the need to remain competitive, operators must evolve their broadband access networks to reach greater levels of scale and efficiency. But many broadband networking solutions are rigid, requiring operators to use more products, deploy more capacity than necessary, and use more space and power than sustainability goals allow.
Our approach
Ciena’s broadband solution provides a new way to build and evolve fiber access networks with the flexibility and dynamic scalability operators haven’t had before. This is achieved through groundbreaking innovation in passive optical network (PON) pluggables, purpose-built routers, and agile subscriber management and network control software.
The benefits
Evolve your network to serve more customers in more locations now, while enabling any combination of residential, business, and mobile services to maximize your revenue potential. And with XGS-PON, 25GS-PON, and higher rates in the future, you can cost-effectively scale as demand requires, achieving greater sustainability with smallest-footprint, lowest-power technology.
Our broadband technology and services
Optical network units (ONUs)
Deliver high-performance XGS-PON services to residential and business customers with fast, secure, reliable ONUs.
Pluggable optical line terminals (OLTs)
Deploy a fully functional OLT in a small form factor pluggable, scaling flexibly and easily with demand and reducing space, power, and cooling costs.
Host routers
Turn up services anywhere using a full range of host routers that integrate pluggable OLTs, coherent optics, and high-performance routing.
Virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG)
Manage subscriber sessions at scale —and adapt to market demands flexibly and reliably—with Ciena’s software-defined, virtualized, cloud-native BNG.
Navigator Network Control SuiteTM (Navigator NCS)
Gain visibility and unified control to deploy services faster, troubleshoot easily, and optimize network resources as subscriber demand grows.
Blue Planet® automation
Optimize and automate the planning, deployment, and operations of fiber broadband services across multi-vendor networks.
Broadband Services
Turning broadband technology into a profitable business takes deep technical and operational expertise. Trust Ciena Services to make it happen.
Ciena’s broadband network architecture
Innovations like Ciena’s micro–optical line terminal (uOLT) and vBNG, combined with a robust family of purpose-built routers, managed by our Navigator NCS, are redefining broadband access flexibility, scalability, and sustainability—giving operators a path to better broadband.
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