Windstream Automates Provisioning of Wavelength Services Across Nationwide, Multi-Vendor Network Using Ciena Blue Planet
October 11 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Open network orchestration platform accelerates
1 GbE, 10 GbE, and 100 GbE service delivery
Windstream (NASDAQ: WIN), a leading provider of advanced network
communications, is deploying Ciena’s® (NYSE: CIEN) Blue Planet
orchestration software to automate the delivery of managed
wavelength services across the company’s multi-vendor optical
network. By leveraging the open orchestration capabilities of Blue
Planet, Windstream is able to utilize its optical network as a
programmable resource and accelerate the delivery of managed 1 GbE,
10 GbE, and 100 GbE wavelength services to its wholesale,
enterprise, media and web-scale customers.
Key facts:
- Windstream transport services include
TDM, SONET, Ethernet and optical Wave transport services at speeds
from 1G to 100G, delivered over its 125,000 mile, nationwide core
network.
- Windstream adopted an agile,
DevOps-style approach to developing and implementing automation in
its network. This involved close collaboration amongst multiple
vendors that allowed the project to go from concept to production
in less than three months.
- Windstream is leveraging Blue Planet’s
open architecture to integrate with third-party SDN controllers and
enable service orchestration across the company’s long-haul and
metro network. The platform provides Windstream with a simplified
view of the multi-vendor optical layer, through which it can
develop and provision new services, and manipulate existing ones,
with greater speed.
- Another key benefit of the Blue Planet
software is the ability to orchestrate multiple technology domains,
giving Windstream a foundation to quickly automate other layers of
the physical network as well as virtual resources in the
future.
Executive Comments:
- “At Windstream, we are investing in
strategic technologies that enable us to deliver flexible,
on-demand services across our multi-vendor network. We selected
Ciena’s Blue Planet orchestration solution because of the richness
and breadth of the technology, and its ability to grow with us as
we automate other layers of the network and deliver agile,
virtualized services to our customers. Abstracting the complexity
of service delivery across our diverse, multi-vendor network,
unlocks a future where we can focus more on the richness of our
customer’s experience and less on the operations of that network.”
- Jeff Small, Head of Engineering,
Windstream
- “Service providers today are looking
for open networking solutions that automate processes and eliminate
the need for human intervention. With Blue Planet, Windstream can
automate and program its network for rapid service turn-up and
delivery, significantly reducing deployment times, increasing time
to market of new services and driving competitive advantage.”
- Francois Locoh-Donou, Senior Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer, Ciena
About Windstream
Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 company,
is a leading provider of advanced network communications and
technology solutions for consumers, small businesses, enterprise
organizations and carrier partners across the U.S. Windstream
offers bundled services, including broadband, security solutions,
voice and digital TV to consumers. The company also provides data,
cloud solutions, unified communications and managed services to
business and enterprise clients. The company supplies core
transport solutions on a local and long-haul fiber-optic network
spanning approximately 125,000 miles. Additional information is
available at www.windstream.com. Please visit our newsroom at
news.windstream.com or follow us on Twitter at @Windstream.
About Ciena
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