Ciena Modernizes Packet Networking with 'Adaptive IP' and Coherent Optics
October 17 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Enhancements reduce operational complexity and
fuel emerging high-growth applications
Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) is bolstering its Packet Networking
portfolio with new Adaptive IP capabilities, coherent optics, and
purpose-built hardware platforms, arming service providers with the
ability to capitalize on 5G, Next-Generation Cable MSO Access
associated with Fiber Deep, Business Services, and more. These
advancements also simplify access to metro networks allowing
providers to evolve toward an adaptive network that can support
both new and legacy business services and applications.
With these new capabilities, Ciena is bringing to market
solutions that are open, cost-effective, and disaggregated making
them simpler to deploy, manage, and maintain. The new portfolio
features also significantly reduce network operators’ power, cost,
and footprint requirements.
Key Facts:
- Many of today’s TDM (SONET/SDH/PDH) and
Packet (Ethernet/IP/MPLS) networks are rigid, complex, and costly,
resulting in a slower time-to-market and growing inflexibility to
address constantly changing customer demands. Networks also
continue to lack the agility and ability to rapidly deploy new
services, which leads to customer churn and loss of revenue.
- To help service providers address these
challenges once and for all, and to profit from new and high-growth
opportunities like the evolution from 4G to 5G, L2/L3/VNF Business
Services, and Next-Generation Cable MSO Access, Ciena is
introducing a simpler, streamlined approach to building IP-enabled
networks, from access to metro. Ciena is investing in several
enhancements to its Packet Networking portfolio, including:
- Service-Aware Operating System
(SAOS) enhanced with IP capabilities targeted at specific
high-growth applications – Based on a streamlined, modular,
open, and highly programmable IP architecture, Ciena’s SAOS
empowers providers via an “Adaptive IP” approach. This improves
service velocity, shortens time-to-revenue, and enables an adaptive
network to best address evolving end-user network service
requirements for existing, new, and emerging applications with a
highly differentiated quality of service.
- Ciena’s new 5162 Service
Aggregation Platform as well as the 5170 Service Aggregation
Platform will be the first to offer enhanced SAOS, enabling
providers to address L3 VPN business services. Additional Adaptive
IP features will be developed and integrated across Ciena’s Packet
Networking platforms.
- Coherent Optics – This allows
for rapid, cost-effective scaling to address ongoing bandwidth
growth, specifically toward the network edge. Supporting coherent
optics simplifies network designs with notable reductions in power,
space, cost, and overall operational complexity.
- 6500 Packet Transport System
(PTS) – The 6500 PTS converts legacy TDM business services
(SONET/SDH/PDH) into packet flows to be carried over a more
efficient and scalable packet network. This allows network
operators to continue supporting existing TDM customers while also
addressing new, high-growth applications – all over a single,
converged packet-based transport network.
- Blue Planet Management Portfolio
– Added to Ciena’s existing Blue Planet Management portfolio are
new Layer 3-aware Route Optimization & Assurance capabilities
obtained from the recent acquisition of Packet Design for improved
IP network designs, operation, and management, from
end-to-end.
- These new capabilities are supported by
Ciena’s broad suite of Professional Services, which allow operators
to elegantly transform their networks, regardless of the stage
(plan, design, deploy, manage, and maintain) of their journey to a
more adaptive network.
- Attendees at the MEF18 event taking
place Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 in Los Angeles will have an opportunity to
hear more about these new capabilities in a keynote session led by
Kevin Sheehan, Ciena’s CTO for the Americas, taking place Tuesday,
Oct. 30 at 11:30 a.m. PST. Ciena’s booth (#507) will also feature
these enhancements in several technical demonstrations.
Executive Comment:
- “5G, IoT, Next-Generation Cable MSO
Access, and L2/L3/VNF Business Services require that operators
redefine what they need from their existing packet networks.
Ciena’s new Adaptive IP capabilities provide a graceful migration
path from legacy TDM (SONET/SDH/PDH) networks and traditional,
closed IP-based architectures to more open, disaggregated, and
programmable IP-based SDN architecture. This gives our customers
greater control of their own destiny and lays the foundation of the
ultimate end state – the Adaptive Network, which responds in
real-time to changing demands.”- Scott McFeely, Senior Vice
President, Global Products and Services, Ciena
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is a networking systems, services, and
software company. We provide solutions that help our clients create
more adaptive networks in response to the constantly changing
demands of their users. By delivering best-in-class networking
technology through high-touch consultative relationships, we build
the world’s most sophisticated networks with automation and scale.
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