White Paper From Promise to Reality: Extending the Reach of Managed Ethernet Services Executive Summary OFFERING A SIMPLE, COST-EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE to leased lines and other legacy services, carrier-managed Ethernet is quickly becoming the service of choice for metro- and wide-area connectivity.…

Whitepaper Ethernet has become the prevalent and ubiquitous link-layer technology in the LAN and today more than 95% of all IP traffic originates and terminates in the Ethernet format. Because of Ethernet’s ubiquity, simplicity, cost effectiveness, and scaleability there is significant…

White Paper Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade Introduction TODAY, VIRTUALLY ALL NEW END-USER and most new machine- to-machine applications are designed around the Internet Protocol (IP). Within 99 percent of Local Area Networks (LANs), Ethernet is used to carry those IP…

White Paper Making the Case for Converged Ethernet Transport The Advantages of Integrating Layer 2 Ethernet with Layer 0/1 Transport Executive Summary The rapid growth of IP traffic is creating a period of transition from circuit to packet optimization. Service providers—already having made…

White Paper Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade Introduction TODAY, VIRTUALLY ALL NEW END-USER and most new machine-to- machine applications are designed around the Internet Protocol (IP). Within 99 percent of Local Area Networks (LANs), Ethernet is used to carry those IP…

Executive Summary The growing popularity of high-bandwidth, carrier-managed services is increasing carriers’ need for a service delivery platform with the agility to support a growing range of services—including Ethernet-based Local Area Network (LAN), Internet, and storage connectivity…

W A S D P Data Sheet Multiservice Access Gateways CN 3180, CN 3181 SMB BT T1/E1 PL PBX, Data 2G/2.5G 3G/4G Packet Switched Network (PSN) FE/GbE FE/GbE Pseudowires over PSN ATM TDM IP/MPLS Ethernet OAM and Protection Timing Synchronization MAG – Multiservice Access Gateway SAS – Service…

W A S D P Data Sheet Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Extension Service Family of products provide cost- effective, carrier-class Ethernet access and aggregation solutions for delivering profitable managed Ethernet business services and wireless voice and data traffic backhaul across both fiber- and…

W A S D P Data Sheet Ethernet-over-Fiber Demarcation Devices Carrier Ethernet Service Extension Family Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Extension Service Family of products provide cost- effective, carrier-class Ethernet access and aggregation solutions for delivering profitable managed Ethernet…

W A S D P Data Sheet Ciena’s CN 3911 Service Delivery Switch (SDS) is a next-generation Ethernet access system that cost-effectively delivers business, transport, and residential Ethernet services via fiber or copper connections. The CN 3911 features an environmentally hardened and physically…