Submarine networking
Unify and simplify networks over land, sea, and cloud
With today’s ever-increasing bandwidth demand, global submarine networks play a critical role in connecting the world. By unifying networks over land, sea, and cloud, GeoMesh™ Extreme simplifies end-to-end connectivity in a unique and seamless way—providing unprecedented capacity, latency, sustainability, and management.
The challenge
Submarine networks are critical infrastructure, carrying 99% of the world’s intercontinental communications traffic. The demand on these networks is growing exponentially and tolerance for faults is shrinking. As a result, you need solutions that can dynamically meet capacity requirements while ensuring resiliency in the face of inevitable network issues.
Our approach
Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme unifies submarine, terrestrial, and cloud networks in an unprecedented manner. Maximize spectral efficiency and proactively plan for future demand with our hardware, software, and professional services. Simplify global networks with an actionable, end-to-end view of your assets.
The benefits
GeoMesh Extreme empowers you to cost-effectively scale while ensuring availability with its united, global view of the network. The solution’s intelligent mesh switching provides the resilience you need to guarantee connectivity in the face of network disruptions while delivering on your business goals with a greater return on network assets.
Our submarine networking technology and services
WaveLogic Coherent Optics
WaveLogic Coherent Optics power 100 Gb/s to 1.6 Tb/s per wavelength solutions, driving scalability, intelligence, and programmability.
6500
Ciena’s 6500 family of Packet-Optical Platforms enables you to continually stay ahead of unpredictable customer demands.
6500 Reconfigurable Line System
The 6500 RLS is a compact, simple-to-deploy, photonic layer solution that improves scalability, reduces footprint, and offers flexibility.
Waveserver
The Waveserver 5 interconnect platform is optimized for 100/400GbE applications and provides unmatched scaling capabilities in a compact footprint.
Navigator Network Control Suite
Meet Navigator NCS, the software suite that helps you meet your operational goals and maximize your network performance.
Ciena Services
We harness our expertise to help you build, operate, and improve your network and achieve your business objectives.
Wave Services Report
Driven by AI and the adoption of cloud services, wave services are gaining momentum. Read our report to identify and understand the business opportunities.
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Chalk Talk: Changing the Submarine Networking Game with Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme
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