In today’s economic environment, enterprise IT and networking departments are continually being asked to do more with less. CIOs and CFOs are looking for ways to cut costs without impacting the services provided to their internal users and external customers. Challenges Over time, many…

Technical information Line Interfaces to MAN/WAN Network OC-48 or STM-16 Line Interface Card 1310 nm SR/IR, 1550 LR, 15xx nm on ITU-T grid OC-12 or STM-4 Line Interface Card 1310 nm IR/LR OC-3 or STM-1 Line Interface Card 1310 nm IR DS3 Line Interface Card GbE Uplink Any port on a client module can…

Government agencies and military bases have deployed traditional Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs) throughout their networks to offer end-users high-speed OC-12, OC-3, DS3 and DS1 services. With the growth in bandwidth requirements for data, there is a need for deployment of next-generation ADMs that…

Technical information System Tributary Services OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4 (software provisionable); intermediate reach optics Line Interfaces OC-48/STM-16 short reach, intermediate reach and long reach optics Service Densities 2112 OC-3s muxed per fiber pair or 4224 OC-3s per node 1056 OC-3s switched…

Ciena Corporation and Juniper Networks, provider of the industry-leading M40 Internet backbone router, today announced successful interoperability testing between Juniper Networks? M40 router and Ciena?s MultiWave Sentry(tm) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical networking system.…

Technical information System Maximum Capacity 33 protected/66 unprotected wavelengths per node Wavelength Conversion Interfaces All-rate 16 Mb/s to 2.5 Gb/s (incl. SONET/SDH, GbE, FC, FICON®, ESCONTM, D1, HDTV) ONWAVE Service Blades 10GE LAN PHY, OC-192/STM-64 ONWAVE Service Blades ESMUX 12…

In a new thrust in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology, Ciena Corporation announced today plans to introduce three additions to its Ciena MultiWaveTM 1600 product line: a 40-channel (100 Gb/s capacity) terminal, an optical add-drop multiplexer (ADM), and a TMN-compliant native…

Ciena Corporation (CIEN) today announced the launch of MultiWave Metro One™, an intelligent optical transport solution designed to expand the broadband Internet in metropolitan area networks by breaking the cost barriers of legacy SONET/SDH solutions. An inter-exchange carrier already has…

Ciena Corporation (CIEN) today announced that it has introduced Transparent Service Multiplexing™ to its LightWorks Toolkit™ for New Optical Services. Ciena?s Transparent Service Multiplexing (TSM) technology enables carriers to sell transparent wavelength services without using an…

Ciena Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN) today announced that Intermedia Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: ICIX) has chosen Ciena?s MultiWave Sentry(TM) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transport system for deployment in Intermedia?s fiber optic network. Additional terms of the two-year…