…Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), a leading provider of global network solutions, today announced the availability of new features for its MetroDirector K2™ platform, enabling new carrier-class enterprise data services directly over existing service provider networks. For service providers, this means…

…metro networking solutions for deployment in key regional rings of its internal fiber network. Southern Company has chosen Ciena’s MetroDirector K2™ and ONLINE Metro™ multiservice platforms to meet its evolving requirements for converged, high-bandwidth applications, while lowering the…

…MetroDirector K2™ is being deployed along a major SONET ring in Tokyo, and along 10G sub-rings connecting Tokyo to Osaka. eAccess expects deployment of the MetroDirector K2 product will continue through March 2003. The initial order placed by eAccess is more than 100 MetroDirector K2 units. "We chose…

…Inc. with the Cyras organization forming Ciena?s new Fremont, California-based Metropolitan Switching Division. In addition, Ciena?s MetroDirector K2™, the metropolitan edge switching system developed by Cyras, is currently ready for shipment in limited quantities and Ciena has received initial…

…provider network to the metropolitan access and switching networks," said Patrick Nettles, Ciena?s chairman and CEO. "With the addition of the Cyras? K2 Trans-Metro Optical platform, Ciena believes it will be able to enhance our strategic position as a pure-play next-generation equipment provider and…

…interoperability between Ciena?s MultiWave CoreDirector™ intelligent optical core switch and MultiWave Metro™ optical transport system and Cyras? K2™ Next-Generation SONET platform at this week?s OFC 2001 conference and exhibit. Ciena intends to complete its acquisition of Cyras during the first…

…-interest financial assistance from the Rural Utilities Service for the purchase and deployment of Ciena’s ONLINE Metro™ and MetroDirector K2™ multiservice platforms in order to help bring broadband services and Internet access to rural areas of the United States. In turn, RUS Acceptance…

…CoreDirector™ intelligent optical core switch in more than 20 cities in its international network, and has placed orders for Ciena’s MetroDirector K2™ metro switch for deployment this summer. The combination of those two products – next-generation Ciena equipment – allows Sprint to…

…area to the long-haul point-of-presence. The 10Gbps wavelength will begin at a data center via ONI’s ONLINE7000, to Ciena’s MetroDirector K2™ intelligent metro switch, to Ciena’s MultiWave™ Metro transport product, to Ciena’s CoreDirector™ intelligent core optical…

…JRE Java Runtime Environment JTAG Joint Test Action Group JVM Java Virtual Machine K K1 SONET or SDH overhead byte of VLSR or MSP/MS-SPRing (see K2) K2 Used with K1-SONET or SDH overhead byte for VLSR or MSP/MS-SPRing Kb Kilobit KB Kilobyte Kb/s Kilobits per second KB/s Kilobytes per second Kbit/s…