Video
World Wide Packets Acquisition; Expanding Ciena's Carrier Ethernet Solution
Ciena's Director of Product Marketing, Malcom Loro, discusses the enhanced value that Ciena brings to customers with the acquisition of World Wide Packets.
Ciena's Director of Product Marketing, Malcom Loro, discusses the enhanced value that Ciena brings to customers with the acquisition of World Wide Packets.
The Resilient Submarine Network
Ciena's Senior Product Marketing Manager, Jim Zik, explains how the Ciena CoreDirector's mesh-based network can make submarine networks more resilient and prevent traffic outages.
Ciena's Senior Product Marketing Manager, Jim Zik, explains how the Ciena CoreDirector's mesh-based network can make submarine networks more resilient and prevent traffic outages.
Optical Transport Networks (OTN)
Product Marketing Director Vinay Rathore provides an overview of OTN technology as a services friendly global standard for optical networks that is replacing SONET/SDH.
Product Marketing Director Vinay Rathore provides an overview of OTN technology as a services friendly global standard for optical networks that is replacing SONET/SDH.
White paper
The Value of OTN for Network Convergence and IP/Ethernet Migration (pdf)
Today, network operaters are forced to converge their networks in order to reduce OPEX and also to eliminate unnecessary additional CAPEX on multiple parallel networks. Ciena's CN 4200 OTN implementation maps all services into a common set of wavelengths—simplifying everything from monitoring and deployment to sparing and capacity management.
Today, network operaters are forced to converge their networks in order to reduce OPEX and also to eliminate unnecessary additional CAPEX on multiple parallel networks. Ciena's CN 4200 OTN implementation maps all services into a common set of wavelengths—simplifying everything from monitoring and deployment to sparing and capacity management.
Evolution to the 100G Transport Network (pdf)
Carriers are challenged by bandwidth constraints while attempting to accommodate demands for high-speed services. The aggregation of 10GbE on IP routers, coupled with fiber plant exhaust, necessitates 100 Gb/s ports on DWDM equipment and 100GbE ports for switch-to-switch interconnection. This white paper explains how Ciena leads the development of timely, technically innovative 100 Gb/s solutions that operate over existing 10 Gb/s infrastructures.
Carriers are challenged by bandwidth constraints while attempting to accommodate demands for high-speed services. The aggregation of 10GbE on IP routers, coupled with fiber plant exhaust, necessitates 100 Gb/s ports on DWDM equipment and 100GbE ports for switch-to-switch interconnection. This white paper explains how Ciena leads the development of timely, technically innovative 100 Gb/s solutions that operate over existing 10 Gb/s infrastructures.
Scaling and Adapting to Ongoing Innovation with Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture (pdf)
Gaining the flexibility to grow new services, change architectures on demand, and scale to high speeds requires a forward-looking, cost-effective approach. Ciena’s FlexSelect™ Architecture addresses these needs by helping network equipment continually adapt to the changing landscape with flexibility, manageability, and assured operations without continual forklift upgrades.
Gaining the flexibility to grow new services, change architectures on demand, and scale to high speeds requires a forward-looking, cost-effective approach. Ciena’s FlexSelect™ Architecture addresses these needs by helping network equipment continually adapt to the changing landscape with flexibility, manageability, and assured operations without continual forklift upgrades.
Provider Backbone Bridging – Traffic Engineering of Carrier Ethernet Services (pdf)
Due to its ubiquity and ease-of-use, Ethernet, in the form of PBB-TE, is positioned to capitalize on the sizeable opportunity of delivering and transporting Carrier Ethernet services.
Due to its ubiquity and ease-of-use, Ethernet, in the form of PBB-TE, is positioned to capitalize on the sizeable opportunity of delivering and transporting Carrier Ethernet services.
Survivable Optical Networks with foreword by Ovum RHK (pdf)
Globalization and natural disasters have combined to rejuvenate interest in global communications networks, particularly the undersea networks interconnecting with their terrestrial counterparts. As these networks grow and customer needs evolve, mesh protection of undersea links is emerging as an important trend at the optical network layer as operators look to control costs while improving network resiliency.
Globalization and natural disasters have combined to rejuvenate interest in global communications networks, particularly the undersea networks interconnecting with their terrestrial counterparts. As these networks grow and customer needs evolve, mesh protection of undersea links is emerging as an important trend at the optical network layer as operators look to control costs while improving network resiliency.
Practical TDM Service Migration to a Converged Ethernet Infrastructure (pdf)
Until businesses and enterprises complete the transition from TDM private lines to ubiquitous Ethernet to support point-to-point, dedicated inter-office voice and data connectivity, there remains a strong TDM market segment for service providers worldwide. This white paper looks at how TDMoP provides a standards-based method for emulating TDM services over a converged packet network in a very scalable, reliable, and cost-effective way.
Until businesses and enterprises complete the transition from TDM private lines to ubiquitous Ethernet to support point-to-point, dedicated inter-office voice and data connectivity, there remains a strong TDM market segment for service providers worldwide. This white paper looks at how TDMoP provides a standards-based method for emulating TDM services over a converged packet network in a very scalable, reliable, and cost-effective way.
Storage Extension Network Solutions: Lower-cost, Higher-Performance Networks (pdf)
Robust, secure, resilient, high-capacity storage networks are business imperatives. The right network solutions must provide reliable, timely, and accurate application-layer replication over a network that cost-effectively delivers high-performance connectivity to fit application requirements. This white paper explores techniques to ensure the availability of storage applications over distances while driving costs down by up to 70 percent.
Robust, secure, resilient, high-capacity storage networks are business imperatives. The right network solutions must provide reliable, timely, and accurate application-layer replication over a network that cost-effectively delivers high-performance connectivity to fit application requirements. This white paper explores techniques to ensure the availability of storage applications over distances while driving costs down by up to 70 percent.
ROADMs in Network Architectures (pdf)
ROADM delivers new flexibility to DWDM networks by enabling dynamic, transparent optical wavelength add/drop functioning, and adds considerable agility and robustness to network architectures—vastly improving service velocity and lowering TCO.
ROADM delivers new flexibility to DWDM networks by enabling dynamic, transparent optical wavelength add/drop functioning, and adds considerable agility and robustness to network architectures—vastly improving service velocity and lowering TCO.
Transitioning Wireless Backhaul Networks to True Carrier Ethernet with foreword by Heavy Reading (pdf)
The wireless backhaul network, traditionally based on TDM technology, is reaching a breaking point. Originally designed to handle narrowband voice traffic, the backhaul network simply does not have the capacity to handle today's mobile traffic. Ciena offers a solution that integrates existing TDM technology with Ethernet to provide operators maximum benefits, while increasing bandwidth and reducing overall costs.
The wireless backhaul network, traditionally based on TDM technology, is reaching a breaking point. Originally designed to handle narrowband voice traffic, the backhaul network simply does not have the capacity to handle today's mobile traffic. Ciena offers a solution that integrates existing TDM technology with Ethernet to provide operators maximum benefits, while increasing bandwidth and reducing overall costs.
The Foundation for the Evolution of Enterprise Networks: Ciena's Approach to Optical Networking (pdf)
Based on technology building blocks such as OTN, programmability, intelligent optical control plane, and automated management, Ciena’s enterprise solutions offer the lowest cost for present implementation and long-term operation, and provide the scalability and flexibility to serve as adaptable foundations for years to come.
Based on technology building blocks such as OTN, programmability, intelligent optical control plane, and automated management, Ciena’s enterprise solutions offer the lowest cost for present implementation and long-term operation, and provide the scalability and flexibility to serve as adaptable foundations for years to come.
The Foundation for Assured Networks: Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture (pdf)
Ciena platforms form the global backbone network for the U.S. Department of Defense and the backbones of seven of the world’s ten largest service providers. These platforms are integral components for achieving the level of security and reliability necessary to sustain critical operations and the real-time delivery of information.
Ciena platforms form the global backbone network for the U.S. Department of Defense and the backbones of seven of the world’s ten largest service providers. These platforms are integral components for achieving the level of security and reliability necessary to sustain critical operations and the real-time delivery of information.
CWDM Technology and Applications (pdf)
Service providers are showing a renewed interest in deploying Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM)-based systems for a variety of applications. This paper highlights the important aspects of CWDM technology, the origin of its cost savings, the emerging standards, and some of the more popular applications causing the resurgence in interest.
Service providers are showing a renewed interest in deploying Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM)-based systems for a variety of applications. This paper highlights the important aspects of CWDM technology, the origin of its cost savings, the emerging standards, and some of the more popular applications causing the resurgence in interest.
Webinars
G.709 OTN - Service Adaptation at the Optical layer
G.709, commonly called Optical Transport Network (OTN) or digital wrapper, is a next-generation, industry-standard protocol providing an efficient and globally-acceptable way to multiplex services. This Webinar demonstrates how OTN’s functions, cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation provide a straightforward, painless solution to evolving network needs.
G.709, commonly called Optical Transport Network (OTN) or digital wrapper, is a next-generation, industry-standard protocol providing an efficient and globally-acceptable way to multiplex services. This Webinar demonstrates how OTN’s functions, cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation provide a straightforward, painless solution to evolving network needs.
Ciena's CN 4200: Reconfigurable Optics Made Simple
The true flexibility of Ciena's CN 4200 family comes from its unique hybrid ROADM—which adds a new dimension to reconfigurable optical networks. The CN 4200 combines the best of electrical and optical grooming to lower overall network costs, while enabling on-demand flexibility from 10 Mb/s to 40 Gb/s. This Webinar describes the advantages of Ciena's hybrid ROADM approach and explains how network operators can continually lower overall cost-per-bit, even as their network traffic grows.
The true flexibility of Ciena's CN 4200 family comes from its unique hybrid ROADM—which adds a new dimension to reconfigurable optical networks. The CN 4200 combines the best of electrical and optical grooming to lower overall network costs, while enabling on-demand flexibility from 10 Mb/s to 40 Gb/s. This Webinar describes the advantages of Ciena's hybrid ROADM approach and explains how network operators can continually lower overall cost-per-bit, even as their network traffic grows.
End-to-End Automation of Service Delivery – Control Plane Technologies
Service providers are looking at new approaches to customer service activation and customer network management, both to reduce operations costs and to be more responsive to their customers’ needs. Control plane technologies can greatly simplify the automation of end-to-end services. This session will provide an overview of control plane technologies and review recent progress toward interoperability of the solutions.
Service providers are looking at new approaches to customer service activation and customer network management, both to reduce operations costs and to be more responsive to their customers’ needs. Control plane technologies can greatly simplify the automation of end-to-end services. This session will provide an overview of control plane technologies and review recent progress toward interoperability of the solutions.