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On-demand wave services

Expand your niche in the evolving cloud ecosystem

Increase competitive differentiation and unlock new revenue

The challenge

Moving massive amounts of data across clouds in just hours requires on-demand, high-capacity connectivity, especially near the metro edge. This challenge presents an opportunity to leverage your optical network assets to deliver an innovative, high-capacity cloud exchange service.

Our approach

We offer a flexible, scalable, and secure switched optical infrastructure using intelligent automation to provide an on-demand, high-capacity wavelength service with enhanced service-level agreement options. This pay-as-you-go solution allows enterprises to quickly provision and schedule 100G/400G of capacity when and where they need it.

The benefits

Unlock new revenue opportunities with industry-leading coherent optics that scale up to 800G and a flexible ROADM-based optically switched infrastructure. Offer a premium customer experience with dedicated high-speed, low-latency, and highly secure multi-cloud access on demand.

Interactive tool

Where in your network are you feeling the pressure?

Next-generation metro and edge networks are comprised of key technologies and architecture approaches to address specific use cases that are critical to your business. Explore why traditional approaches to these architectures need to evolve—and how.

Insights

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Infobrief

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Enabling Next-Generation Metro and Edge Networks for Communications Service Providers

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