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Services for every phase of your network lifecycle

Ciena Services helps you maximize your network infrastructure investment throughout your network’s lifecycle. We offer a portfolio of service offers and solution services, delivered by highly experienced technical specialists who collaborate with you every step of the way to achieve your critical objectives and provide outcomes for your core business. Our portfolio consists of best-of-breed services that optimize network efficiency and performance.

Ciena Learning

Empowering experiences. Enriching outcomes.

WHAT'S NEW?

Discover what’s new!

Whether you’re a novice looking to get up and running or a professional looking to upskill, reskill or reinvent your career, our Discover Serieswith over 65 Web-based, self-paced courses—is perfect for you.

Learn anytime, anywhere. For free.

DID YOU KNOW?

We’re now Ciena Learning.

We simplified our name. Our commitment to educate, enrich, and empower you remains the same!

Gain the knowledge you need to make a difference—in your organization, your life, and the world around you.

Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Platform

Driving digital transformation

Manage, Control and Plan (MCP)

MCP is Ciena’s domain controller, unifying and automating network and service operations of Ciena’s packet and optical infrastructure across access, metro, core, and subsea domains. It eliminates manual, time-consuming, error-prone steps between multiple, legacy management systems by synchronizing operations across network protocol layers so operators can quickly plan, provision, manage, and assure end-end services deployed over Ciena packet-optical networks.

IT + Network: powerhouse combination

The Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Platform is a comprehensive, open software suite that empowers service providers with deep insights about the network to optimize business processes that span IT and Network functions, accelerating your digital transformation. IT and Network operations are no longer constrained in legacy, manually intensive silos.

Blue Planet powers closed-loop automation through multi-domain, multi-layer orchestration combined with inventory federation, analytics, and route optimization and assurance, unlocking network potential and business agility. Working across multi-vendor domains, including Ciena’s domain controlled by Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), Blue Planet intelligent automation enables the delivery of a range of end-to-end services with fast time to market and exceptional performance, at reduced operational costs. With Blue Planet, you can make your IT and Network operations smarter and more agile, facilitating your journey to the Adaptive Network™.

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