…lowering the unit cost per transported bit, while maintaining full service transparency similar to an individual wavelength service. Ciena’s ONLINE Metro multiservice transport platform provides carrier-class solutions, in which ONWAVE service blades are plug-in modules offering highdensity, transparent…

…a broader industry trend as service providers add capacity to stay ahead of surging bandwidth demands driven by the growth of mobile devices and online video.    This isn’t a new story.  In fact, Gary Smith talked about the strength of the optical transport market last quarter…

…Economic advantage, deployment flexibility and management visibility are FlexSelectTM attributes Ciena brings to the DWDM environment. Ciena?s ONLINE Metro Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform Provides Carrier-class Solutions for both carrier and enterprise environments. Various network topologies…

…the successful completion of interoperability testing and qualification of its ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Platform for IBM GDPS eServer zSeries mainframe environments. IBM’s validation of ONLINE Metro was based upon the successful completion of test scenarios on IBM zSeries mainframes…

…provider of global network solutions, announced today that it is introducing the ONLINE Metro™ Service Aggregator (SA), a universal multiplexing and transport platform for metropolitan networks. The ONLINE Metro SA allows carriers to deploy a single, flexible product that will replace and augment…

…largest research centers, has deployed Ciena’s ONLINE Metro™ DWDM Platform in two separate networks, including the TeraGrid project, the fastest dedicated optical backplane network for distributed computing resources. Ciena’s ONLINE Metro provides Argonne with connectivity solutions, in…

…networking systems and software, today announced that Daegu Bank and Busan Bank have jointly developed a back-up banking system utilizing Ciena’s ONLINE Metro™ Multiservice DWDM Transport Platform. Daegu Bank and Busan Bank are among the largest regional banking institutions in Korea. Both banks…

…network solutions, today announced that the KPN EuroRings unit of KPN, the Netherlands’ largest telecom service provider, has deployed Ciena?s ONLINE Metro™ platform in its network. The platform allows KPN EuroRings to offer higher value data services, such as Storage Area Networking (SAN), ESCON…

Features & benefits * Transparent multiplexing of low-rate SONET/SDH signals onto a single wavelength * Minimized per-port cost of OC-48 based connections over a DWDM network by combining four OC-48 signals onto a single wavelength * Hot-swappable into any slot for any service mix * ADM…