Our solutions
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Our solutions power the world's most adaptive networks to address ever-increasing digital demands for richer, more connected experiences for all users.
Cloud and AI networking
Maximize scale and performance across any distance in the WAN and inside the data center
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Metro data center interconnect
Provide seamless, high-capacity connectivity between data centers at the lowest power with footprint-optimized coherent pluggables.
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Global data center interconnect
Deliver widescale, global connectivity between data centers spanning any distance from long haul to subsea with highly scalable, programmable infrastructure, intelligent software, and automation.
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Data center out-of-band management
Access groundbreaking operational simplicity in out-of-band (OOB) management networks, centralizing network provisioning and significantly reducing the number of network elements and related infrastructure to manage.
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Managed optical fiber networks
Offer new managed solutions for hyperscaler and cloud provider growth with the managed optical fiber network (MOFN). Powered by Ciena's leading coherent technology and photonic network offerings, MOFN seamlessly interconnects data centers and cable landing stations so hyperscalers can rapidly expand their global networks and enter new markets.
Access and aggregation
Deliver the next generation of enterprise, residential, and mobile transport services with unparalleled scale and flexibility
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Broadband
Enable service providers and communities to build and evolve a broadband infrastructure that delivers long-term value through a rich set of hardware, software, and services that is flexible, scalable, and sustainable.
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Enterprise
Minimize deployment and infrastructure expenses and ensure the highest levels of assurance and agility for your enterprise services at the edge.
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Mobile transport
Build a foundation for an agile and seamless 5G evolution with open, programmable xHaul routers and network lifecycle automation across all domains.
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TDM
Maintain profitable delivery of TDM services while future-proofing investments toward network transformation, removing aging equipment and consolidating multi-agency services to customers.
Metro and edge
Simplify, scale, and optimize your metro and edge networks to meet new AI-driven connectivity demands
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Metro optical architectures
Create opportunities for new services with a programmable, easily configurable metro optical architecture solution that turns your network into an innovation platform to help you grow your business.
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On-demand wave services
Provide on-demand, high-capacity wavelength services with enhanced service-level agreement (SLA) options using dynamic, any-to-any secure connectivity between multiple locations and intelligent automation.
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Coherent routing
Achieve dynamic scalability and network expansion with our coherent routing solution, featuring the latest in IP and optical innovation and cutting-edge multi-layer operations, automation, and services.
Long haul
Maximize capacity and operational efficiencies with our innovative, flexible long-haul solutions
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High-capacity switching and transport
Deliver more capacity, faster, stretching existing fiber assets through the power of industry-leading coherent optics and photonic line system innovations combined with advanced analytics.
Submarine
Scale and protect your critical submarine network infrastructure—and sustainably optimize the return on your network assets
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Submarine networking
Learn how GeoMesh Extreme unifies submarine, terrestrial, and cloud networks. Unprecedented capacity, latency, and sustainability are within reach.
Open line systems
Gain more visibility and optimize your photonic network assets with our intelligent open line systems
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Programmable photonics
Optimize your photonic network and fiber assets to extract the most capacity and resilience from the network with our fully instrumented open line systems that use real-time analytics and intelligent network control.
AI-driven operations
Power your autonomous networking journey with AI-optimized multi-layer network control and cloud-native OSS solutions
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Multi-layer network control
Simplify, coordinate, and accelerate multi-layer lifecycle operations with intuitive visualization and open APIs.
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Blue Planet Inventory
Transform your operations with a unified view of network resources and services.
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Blue Planet Assurance
Modernize your network assurance systems to cost-effectively meet expectations for faster, better, more affordable services.
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Blue Planet Orchestration
Accelerate your network’s adoption of fully automated orchestration to reduce reliance on legacy systems.
Secure networking
Mitigate security risks and ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability
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Data security and encryption
Minimize your data security risks by ensuring that all in-flight data remains confidential with multi-layer encryption capabilities that are easy to deploy.
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Quantum secure communications
Strengthen your defenses today and into the quantum era with high-capacity data encryption that can be combined with an external QKD system to provide unconditional security of all critical in-flight data.
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Secure access service edge
With secure access service edge (SASE), converge SD-WAN and security service edge into a single-service, cloud-native, and globally distributed architecture that shifts the security focus from traffic-flow centric to identity centric.
Network transformation
Accelerate your network transformation with our industry-leading experts, field-proven analytical tools, and tailored approach and methodology
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Network transformation
We eliminate guesswork and minimize risk, reducing the time it takes for you to deliver the quality experience your customers expect. By ensuring you have the most agile network engineered to your current and future business needs, we focus on helping you drive revenue growth and meet sustainability goals.
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We provide the tools to build the world’s most adaptive networks for richer, more connected experiences for all users.
