…infrastructure that allows the service provider to provide value-add services for business and residential customers alike. Key to this is an Optical Mesh Network, which uses an optical control plane to automate both the provisioning and restoration of complex optical networks. During last month&rsquo…

Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that Verizon Business is delivering its first highly-resilient mesh network based on Ciena CoreDirector® Multiservice Optical Switches across its terrestrial and undersea cable network to offer unsurpassed reliability to multinational…

Although meeting exploding demand growth is a popular topic within the submarine networking industry, open discussions on how a significant increase in undersea cable capacity will be protected has been overshadowed. Traditional ring-based protection pales in comparison to the improved level of network resilience offered by self-healing mesh-based networks implemented with an intelligent control plane.

Although meeting exploding demand growth is a popular topic within the submarine networking industry, open discussions on how a significant increase in undersea cable capacity will be protected has been overshadowed. Traditional ring-based protection pales in comparison to the improved level of network resilience offered by self-healing mesh-based networks implemented with an intelligent control plane.

…operators are already looking ahead to the next generation of submarine network infrastructure, and preparing to integrate a key capability: Optical Mesh Networking. One of the big networking lessons from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster earlier this year was that a submarine cable network…

…  Definitely the inflection point is there to start moving to 100G, and that’s what we are doing. * The core of the Verizon network is a mesh control plane capable network.  * Talking to the Japanese earthquake: We have not dropped a single service for a customer.  Ability to restore…

…rapid service creation, agile service delivery and providing a seamless transition to high-capacity converged Ethernet and OTN networks. With leading mesh restoration capabilities, Ciena’s CoreDirector is deployed in both terrestrial and submarine networks at some of the world’s largest operators…

…a region that has seen its share of unforeseen submarine network cuts and faults over that past few years.  The 5430 brings OTN switching and mesh networking capabilities to SEA-ME-WE4 to automate the provisioning and dynamic bandwidth control of high-bandwidth services and protect against typhoons…

…features a fully-meshed architecture throughout India. The mesh design enables the network to survive multiple failures caused by either natural disasters or man-made issues, such as accidental fiber cuts. Based on CoreDirector?s industry-leading, standards-based control plane, VSNL?s mesh network automatically…

…achieve cost and operational efficiencies. Ciena?s carrier-class intelligent optical transport and switching solutions, combined with AFN?s optical-mesh network architecture, achieve the capacity AFN requires to address the economic needs of its customers and provide innovative carrier-grade services…