…and voice. Designed to use dedicated wiring over a limited distance (typically a diameter of less than five kilometers) to connect a large number of intercommunicating nodes. Ethernet is the most popular of LAN technologies. LANs are interconnected over distance through Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs…

…existing 10G SONET/SDH multiplexer for non-switched OC-48/STM-16 and data services. The new card also supports full SONET and SDH protection on both the network and services sides. Ciena also offers 10-Gigabit Ethernet LAN PHY and WAN PHY cards for the ONLINE Metro platform. Ten-Gigabit LAN PHY enables…

…/800, 10GbE WAN, 10GbE LAN (GFP), IB SDR/DDR OTU2e 11.095 10.356 FC-1200, 10GbE LAN (BMP w/ fixed stuff) OTU3 43.018 40.150 STM-256/OC-768, 40GbE, IB QDR OTU3e1 44.5709 41.6111 4 x ODU2e (AMP) OTU3e2 44.5833 41.5995 4 x ODU2e (GMP) OTU4 111.80997 104.35597 100GbE ITU G.709 OTN Standard Bit Rates ITU…

…unique FlexiPort technology, connects high-speed client services such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Local Area Network/ Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN) PHY, OC-192/STM-64, 10G Fibre Channel (FC), and even regenerated OTU-2 with complete service transparency, meaning that each client bit is delivered at the far…

…specifications, the initial products in the 3000 Series are designed to enable E-Line and E-LAN services for business applications such as Internet access, IP-VPN access and interoffice LAN connectivity over any access media. In addition, the 3000 Series optimizes infrastructure for multiservice applications…

…and controls necessary for high-performance inter-site LAN connectivity, but also to connect storage networks over the same infrastructure. Ciena?s offerings Adaptive WAN solutions from Ciena allow organizations to cost-effectively link LANs over high-performance WANs, and programmable hardware enables…

…software, including SRDF/S, SRDF/A and SRDF/Star, EMC Open Replicator™ software  and EMC MirrorView™ software over Fibre Channel connections at 4G and 10G capacity. It also is qualified with EMC Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (EMC GDDR) software. Ciena’s CN 4200 is…

…about OTN.  OTN, short for Optical Transport Network, wasn?t something we talked about that often at Nortel, but it was a central part of Ciena?s strategy for the future of the core network (and a key technology in the Ciena ActivFlex 5400 series optical switch).   Over the past year, OTN has…

…the Local Area Network (LAN) places new strategic importance on the quality and cost of extending the LAN. Healthcare organizations increasingly are searching for cost-effective LAN extension techniques to leverage the many IT applications that require LAN performance over the Wide Area Network (WAN…

…and even 100GbE.  You may have also heard OTN referred to as G.709 or “The Digital Wrapper” (for a great overview of OTN see the video What is OTN?).   OTN provides several key benefits for the optical network.  First, OTN can support a wide variety of networking protocols…