Economic Benefits of End-to-End OTN Service Switching (pdf)
The unrelenting growth of bandwidth demand is causing a number of dilemmas for network operators—including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services. End-to-end OTN service switching is the most economical way to compete for and handle the growth in high-bandwidth optical services. No other solution allows operators to turn up new services faster and more efficiently while removing the cost of uncertainty in future traffic mix.
The unrelenting growth of bandwidth demand is causing a number of dilemmas for network operators—including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services. End-to-end OTN service switching is the most economical way to compete for and handle the growth in high-bandwidth optical services. No other solution allows operators to turn up new services faster and more efficiently while removing the cost of uncertainty in future traffic mix.
Automated End-to-End Managed Service Delivery and Capacity Allocation (pdf)
End-to-end managed services are becoming key elements for profitability, enabling network operators to differentiate service offerings with more than just transport capacity. The synergy of CoreDirector, CN 4200, and ON-Center provides operators the ability to transform networks into operationally scalable, programmable service-delivery engines for cost-effective on-demand, end-to-end, managed services with six-9s availability and rapid infrastructure capacity allocation.
End-to-end managed services are becoming key elements for profitability, enabling network operators to differentiate service offerings with more than just transport capacity. The synergy of CoreDirector, CN 4200, and ON-Center provides operators the ability to transform networks into operationally scalable, programmable service-delivery engines for cost-effective on-demand, end-to-end, managed services with six-9s availability and rapid infrastructure capacity allocation.
The Strategic Imperative of an Ethernet Metro Aggregation Network (pdf)
IP and Ethernet traffic is growing approximately 40 percent per year. Unfortunately, by 2010, broadband and wireless service revenues are projected to grow only 10 and three percent respectively. Service providers must better monetize this traffic growth while optimizing the service delivery architecture, and controlling both CAPEX and OPEX for rapidly growing and evolving IP and Ethernet services.
IP and Ethernet traffic is growing approximately 40 percent per year. Unfortunately, by 2010, broadband and wireless service revenues are projected to grow only 10 and three percent respectively. Service providers must better monetize this traffic growth while optimizing the service delivery architecture, and controlling both CAPEX and OPEX for rapidly growing and evolving IP and Ethernet services.
Modernization of Government and Public Networks (pdf)
Inherently inefficient, application-specific networks require expensive capital outlay each time a new application is adopted. As demand for the application grows or declines, there is no single means to scale network capacity nor a unified vision to accommodate emerging applications that directly yield public benefit. As the network specialist, Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.
Inherently inefficient, application-specific networks require expensive capital outlay each time a new application is adopted. As demand for the application grows or declines, there is no single means to scale network capacity nor a unified vision to accommodate emerging applications that directly yield public benefit. As the network specialist, Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.
Easy Enterprise Connectivity - Rapid, low-cost Ethernet transport over WDM using the CN 4200 (pdf)
The increased need for speed and scalability in today’s networks requires Gigabit Ethernet. Enterprises and government agencies are driving Ethernet to become ubiquitous in their own network infrastructure. These entities realize the key to an efficient IT shop is keeping users productive, and are looking to extend this networking best-practice to the WAN to meet the need for data-friendly bandwidth for advanced applications and data transport in a mushrooming networking environment.
The increased need for speed and scalability in today’s networks requires Gigabit Ethernet. Enterprises and government agencies are driving Ethernet to become ubiquitous in their own network infrastructure. These entities realize the key to an efficient IT shop is keeping users productive, and are looking to extend this networking best-practice to the WAN to meet the need for data-friendly bandwidth for advanced applications and data transport in a mushrooming networking environment.
Dynamic Wavelength Routing: The Sensible Approach to ROADM (pdf)
ROADM systems add an all-optical switching capability to the network that can be extremely valuable to carriers. The agility to switch, drop, and add traffic at the optical layer becomes more important as service bandwidth profiles approach the 10 or 40 Gb/s data rates of a wavelength. Ciena's CN 4200 ROADM saves immediate capital expense and provides the scalability to defer the cost of adding bandwidth on the network.
ROADM systems add an all-optical switching capability to the network that can be extremely valuable to carriers. The agility to switch, drop, and add traffic at the optical layer becomes more important as service bandwidth profiles approach the 10 or 40 Gb/s data rates of a wavelength. Ciena's CN 4200 ROADM saves immediate capital expense and provides the scalability to defer the cost of adding bandwidth on the network.
Think Storage Network Extension, Think Ciena (pdf)
Choosing the right storage network extension solution is based upon the amount of data that needs to be moved between data centers, the performance requirements of the applications in use and the solution’s cost. Luckily, regardless of whether an organization is replicating a single terabyte (TB) database across town, or moving 50 TB to a new data center located hundreds of miles away, Ciena provides a best-in-class solution for robust, secure, resilient and high-capacity storage extension networks.
Choosing the right storage network extension solution is based upon the amount of data that needs to be moved between data centers, the performance requirements of the applications in use and the solution’s cost. Luckily, regardless of whether an organization is replicating a single terabyte (TB) database across town, or moving 50 TB to a new data center located hundreds of miles away, Ciena provides a best-in-class solution for robust, secure, resilient and high-capacity storage extension networks.
Smart Solutions: Ciena Optical Networking (pdf)
Ciena's Adaptive WAN technology enables the consolidation of disparate, legacy networks into a unified, multiservice optical network that optimizes operational efficiency and delivers cost savings. Equally important, the Adaptive WAN architecture provides the high bandwidth required by emerging applications, while ensuring support for legacy applications.
Ciena's Adaptive WAN technology enables the consolidation of disparate, legacy networks into a unified, multiservice optical network that optimizes operational efficiency and delivers cost savings. Equally important, the Adaptive WAN architecture provides the high bandwidth required by emerging applications, while ensuring support for legacy applications.
Think Assured Optical Networks, Think Ciena (pdf)
With Ciena's assured Adaptive WANs, agencies are finding tremendous econonomic and strategic advantages in consolidating voice, data, storage and video networks into a high-performance optical network that supports all applications between large agency locations and data centers.
With Ciena's assured Adaptive WANs, agencies are finding tremendous econonomic and strategic advantages in consolidating voice, data, storage and video networks into a high-performance optical network that supports all applications between large agency locations and data centers.
Ethernet Compression (pdf)
Enterprises IP networks that connect multiple locations across long distances often use Ethernet as the protocol of choice, because it provides high throughput to key data center applications. This demand for inter-data center connectivity continues to grow as enterprises support more remote applications, and they must do so with limited budgets and without allowing IP congestion issues to affect application performance. Ciena’s CN 2000™ Storage Extension Platform is a powerful solution for IP congestion issues at the edge of the data center, because it maximizes WAN efficiency and provides increased throughput, while leveraging existing assets without requiring additional WAN bandwidth.
Enterprises IP networks that connect multiple locations across long distances often use Ethernet as the protocol of choice, because it provides high throughput to key data center applications. This demand for inter-data center connectivity continues to grow as enterprises support more remote applications, and they must do so with limited budgets and without allowing IP congestion issues to affect application performance. Ciena’s CN 2000™ Storage Extension Platform is a powerful solution for IP congestion issues at the edge of the data center, because it maximizes WAN efficiency and provides increased throughput, while leveraging existing assets without requiring additional WAN bandwidth.
