Ciena and World Wide Packets; Strengthening the Business Ciena SVP of Strategic Planning, Tom Mock, gives business-level insight into the rationale behind the WWP acquisition. Date: 7-Mar-2008 Time: 3:34 Speaker: Tom Mock, Sr. VP, Strategic Planning Produced for: Related resources * Press release

…the power, flexibility and economies of Ethernet technology, while dramatically reducing the CapEx and OpEx of existing legacy networks. Only World Wide Packets offers the QoS, scalability, reliability and manageability necessary to making True Carrier Ethernet services such as IPTV, VoIP, mission critical…

…deliver scalable, reliable Ethernet aggregation platforms that support new and established business services, as well as fixed and mobile broadband services, will achieve true differentiation in an increasingly competitive marketplace." Based on Ciena's field-proven, carrier-class multiservice switching…

…the power, flexibility and economies of Ethernet technology, while dramatically reducing the CapEx and OpEx of existing legacy networks. Only World Wide Packets offers the QoS, scalability, reliability and manageability necessary to making True Carrier Ethernet services such as IPTV, VoIP, mission critical…

Ethernet Services Manager For Management of True Carrier Ethernet Services Ciena's Ethernet Services Manager (ESM) is a ground-breaking carrier-grade, automated service activation, creation, and management platform for Ciena's Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery Switches and Service Aggregation Switches…

Business services Ciena's Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery solutions enable wireline carriers, MSOs and alternative operators to replace T1/T3 and DS1/DS3, Frame Relay and ATM connections with low-cost, high-bandwidth Carrier Ethernet. With Carrier Ethernet, a provider's enterprise customers can deliver…

…services Wireline carriers, municipalities, utilities, and developers can use Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery solutions to provide their residential customers with a variety of advanced Carrier Ethernet services for those subscriber's communication and entertainment needs. Carrier Ethernet enables symmetrical…

Carrier Ethernet Solutions Service providers around the world use Ciena's products and solutions to deliver Carrier Ethernet services and applications as well as to provide Carrier Ethernet transport services. Whether delivering Business, Transport or Residential services, network operators count on…

…services Only Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery products support Provider Backbone Bridging - Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Q-in-Q VLAN mapping—enabling a provider to choose the transport protocol best suited for each service. Carrier Ethernet transport networks…

…PLANNING..................................... 5 III. THE IMPACT OF CONVERGENCE ON TRANSPORT NETWORKS................. 7 IV. TRANSITIONING TO LOWER-COST ETHERNET BACKHAUL........................ 8 4.1 The Metro Network.........................................................................................…