Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) announced today the introduction of an OC-192/STM 64 (10 Gb/s) interface to its scalable MultiWave Sentry dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system. The enhancement to Sentry?s system will enable service providers to increase the capacity of a single strand…

…Legacy next-gen ADMs do not scale easily from OC-48 rings to larger OC-192 rings—requiring either a forklift box replacement upgrade or taking the ADM out of service while the OC-48 switch card is physically replaced with an OC-192 switch card. The expensive OC-48 card must then be discarded or placed…

…SONET bit rate = 155.52 Mb/s OC-12 Optical Carrier level 12, SONET bit rate = 622.08 Mb/s OC-48 Optical Carrier level 48, SONET bit rate = 2.488 Gb/s OC-192 Optical Carrier level 192, SONET bit rate = 9.953 Gb/s OC-n Optical Carrier-number; Optical Carrier where N denotes a multiple of 51.84 Mb/s OCTU Optical…

…transport as an OC-48/STM-16 framed WAN signal. Further, the ESCON multiplexer can be combined with other ONWAVE service blades to aggregate onto OC-192 framed wavelengths. Integrated tributary (client) and line-side (WAN) performance monitoring provides detailed end-to-end fault management capabilities…

…intelligent optical transport systems in its trans-European optical fiber network. The deployment of Ciena?s open-architecture CoreStream systems for OC-192 transmission (10Gbps), which is scalable up to 96 channels per fiber pair, will enable GTS to continue offering one of the largest, highest capacity…

…including dense wave division multiplexing, which allows significant increases in the speed and volume of information carried across the network. The OC-192 equipped network is the foundation for Gemini2000, IXC?s OC-48 next generation Internet backbone carrying both commercial and research community traffic…

…CoreDirector™ intelligent optical core switching fabric with an all-optical switching fabric in a seamless, functionally integrated system; and * OC-192 (10Gbps) interoperability between Ciena?s CoreDirector, CoreStream, MultiWave Metro™, MultiWave CoreDirector CI™and MultiWave MetroDirector…

…provider to deploy Ciena?s market-leading OC-192/STM-64 (10Gbps) intelligent optical transport systems in metropolitan area optical networks. Cable & Wireless has installed Ciena?s MultiWave Metro™ systems in Boston and New York to support its new OC-192 links between these two major markets.…

Ciena Corporation (CIEN) today announced OC-192 (10Gbps) capability for its MultiWave CoreDirector™ intelligent optical core switch. Ciena plans to demonstrate the CoreDirector?s OC-3, 12, 48 and 192 interfaces March 7-9 at the company?s booth (#2813) at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference…

…signals to be transparently multiplexed onto a single wavelength of OC-48 (STM-16) or OC-192 (STM-64), respectively. TSM modules also will allow cascading, meaning OC-3/12 (STM-1/4) signals can be multiplexed up to OC-192 (STM-64) rates. As opposed to traditional SONET/SDH multiplexing, Ciena?s "transparent…