…Ciena’s industry leadership in OTN, coherent optical processing, 40G/100G, Carrier Ethernet, and mesh restoration-capable control planes, the 5400 Family is fully compatible with and unites the best of these technologies to create a truly converged high-performance, highly available switching and transport…

Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced its new 5400 Family of Reconfigurable Switching Systems, a series of performance-optimized, multi-terabit Ethernet, OTN and TDM switching systems with integrated transport functionality that can be flexibly configured to implement…

Features & benefits * Increases network availability for mission-critical services (measured in the field at over six-9s); and handles multiple simultaneous failures * Provides 120 Gb/s per service slot capacity, up to 500 Gb/s capable * Enables intelligent automated provisioning, planning and…

The 5400 Family offers the industry's first fully modular and reconfigurable switching platform. It enables practical transition to a converged OTN and Ethernet-based service-enabling infrastructure to achieve unmatched capital and operational expense reduction and rapid service delivery. That means fewer boxes that require fewer touches-each powered by a single operating system and management platform-to facilitate true network and service automation.

Building on a long heritage of network automation and high reliability, Ciena's 5400 Family of Reconfigurable Switching Systems allows operators to migrate from legacy technologies to next-generation architectures such as OTN and Ethernet.

…installed base of CoreDirector and CoreDirector CI® switches, CoreDirector FS, along with the new 5400 Family of Reconfigurable Switching Systems [see related announcement: “Ciena Announces 5400 Family for New Era of Modular, Software-Defined Networking”], represent Ciena’s next-generation…

…operations for the fiscal year. Fourth Quarter 2009 Customer and Product Summary    •    Ciena introduced the new 5400 Family of Reconfigurable Switching Systems, a series of performance-optimized, multi-terabit Ethernet, OTN and TDM switching systems that can be flexibly…

…user demands evolve, Ciena’s 5400 family of switches can be easily reconfigured. This flexibility allows you to upgrade to an Ethernet- and OTN-based infrastructure when the time comes, without replacing boxes. In addition, the modularity of the 5400 family allows customization for switching solutions…

…first family of terabit-class reconfigurable switching systems, which utilize intelligent mesh networking to automate the provisioning and dynamic bandwidth control of high-capacity services. This product group includes Ciena’s CoreDirector® FS Multiservice Optical Switch and 5400 Family of Reconfigurable…

…switching, Gary provided quite a bit of detail on Ciena’s momentum with our 5400 Family of packet-optical switches: * Q4 represented a high point to-date for 5400 revenue. * Ciena added six new customers for the 5400 in the quarter, bringing the platform’s total customer count to 15 -- with…