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MANAGED OPERATIONS

Multi-vendor network operational expertise

Drive readiness, accelerate service delivery, and optimize costs

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Free your team to focus on strategic priorities

Flexible turnkey managed operations

The challenge

Managing multi-vendor network operations in-house is complex and costly. It requires specialized staff, cross-vendor coordination, secure infrastructure, and ongoing investment in NOC resources, technology, and spares—pulling time, budget, and focus from strategic priorities.

Our approach

A flexible, turnkey, single-point-of-contact model streamlines network operations. Acting on your behalf, a designated customer engagement manager harnesses our AI-native multi-vendor NOC, technical support, managed spares and engineer dispatch, and more to oversee all day-to-day activities across your full network or wherever you need support.

The benefits

Improve operational reliability, resolve issues faster, and strengthen service performance with support backed by our deep operational expertise and exceptional SLA attainment. This allows your team to focus on strategic business priorities.

Our managed operations capabilities

Globally distributed NOC

AI-native, cloud-based multi-vendor network management from our Ciena-owned NOC helps simplify operations and improve SLA performance.

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Tech support

24 x 7 support from over 400 Ciena engineers helps maximize uptime, resolve issues faster, and maintain network performance.

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Managed spares and engineer dispatch

Global logistics, same-day managed spares, and on-site support help maintain availability and resolve issues at lower cost.

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Insights

Beyond bandwidth: How Ciena Services keeps neoscalers ahead of the network curve

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Beyond bandwidth: How Ciena Services keeps neoscalers ahead of the network curve

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Expanding the value of managed services in network operations

Curtis Price, Program Vice President of IDC’s Infrastructure Services group, details ...

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Managed services: Enabling a range of new communications service provider business models

As market dynamics shift and the competitive landscape for communications services in...

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Webinar

On-demand webinar | Unlock network value

In this webinar, Ciena and an IDC guest speaker discuss network operators’ current ch...

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Infobrief

How managed services drive success for network operators

Partnering with a managed service provider that possesses extensive knowledge of emer...

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