Ciena®
Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, announced today that PLDT,
a leading telecoms provider in the Philippines, has deployed Ciena’s 5410
Packet-Optical Reconfigurable Switch System (RSS) and OneConnect
Intelligent Control Plane software across its global network
footprint. With these Ciena platforms, both critical components of the
company’s OPn
architecture, PLDT will create a global mesh network that
interconnects points of presence worldwide into a highly resilient,
intelligent mesh switching network to provide greater network
performance, efficiency and resiliency to meet stringent Service Level
Agreement (SLA) requirements.
“As the largest telecommunications provider in the Philippines and a
rapidly growing international carrier, it is critical that our
infrastructure is highly reliable and capable of delivering robust
broadband service and applications,” said Napoleon L. Nazareno,
President and CEO, PLDT. “With the implementation of Ciena’s
intelligent optical mesh network solutions across our international
network, we are able to give our enterprise and wholesale customers a
variety of low-latency, high-capacity services with the utmost
assurance, putting us on par with large global carriers,” he adds.
“With our packet-optical technology and intelligent optical control
plane software, PLDT will be able to offer its customers
high-availability, high-capacity SONET/SDH, OTN and Ethernet dedicated
services over a global intelligent mesh network. Additionally, our
control plane software allows service providers like PLDT to fine tune
their networks to be more intelligent and to quickly respond to changing
network demands – without manual intervention,” said Anthony McLachlan,
vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific, Ciena.
To support PLDT’s network modernization effort, Ciena’s 5410 RSS will
link PLDT’s global points of presence to provide efficient aggregation,
grooming and intelligent switching of SONET/SDH, OTN and Ethernet
services with flexible tiered service-levels and differentiated service
offerings. Customer traffic traversing PLDT’s existing and future
submarine capacity network will be carried over a highly resilient mesh
network design.
Ciena’s OneConnect technology will allow PLDT to quickly detect faults
and automatically switch data traffic to backup routes as needed in the
event of a network outage. This allows PLDT’s business customers to
minimize the impact of breakages due to cable cuts, earthquakes and
network outages by staying connected to their worldwide offices without
any connectivity disruption, thus providing PLDT a competitive edge in
the enterprise services landscape.
Additionally, PLDT will leverage Ciena’s OneControl
Unified Management System, which provides comprehensive unified
management, visualization and control of the network. Ciena is also
providing a range of professional services for this deployment via Ciena’s
Specialist Services portfolio, including installation, commissioning
and project management.
In July 2012, PLDT started to deploy Ciena’s
industry-leading 6500
Packet-Optical Platform with WaveLogic coherent
optical technology, integrated ROADM, and OTN switching
across its backbone Domestic Fiber Optic Network (DFON) to deliver the
country’s first network with 40G, 100G and OTN switching capabilities.
The 5410 RSS upgrade leverages Ciena's innovative GeoMesh
solutions, which allows PLDT to efficiently connect its submarine and
terrestrial networks into a single seamless network that is simpler,
more cost-effective and forecast-tolerant as market conditions continue
to change. PLDT’s new mesh network services are now commercially
available and premium clients are opting to migrate to the new highly
resilient intelligent optical mesh network.
About PLDT
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is the leading
telecommunications provider in the Philippines. Through its principal
business segments – fixed line, wireless, and others – PLDT offers the
largest and most diversified range of telecommunications services across
the Philippines’ most extensive fiber optic backbone and fixed line,
wireless, broadband, and satellite networks.
PLDT is listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE:TEL) and its
American Depositary Shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE:PHI). PLDT has one of the largest market capitalizations among
Philippine-listed companies. For more information, visit www.pldt.com.ph.
About Ciena
Ciena is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide
to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally
change the way they perform and compete. Ciena leverages its deep
expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software
automation to deliver solutions in alignment with OPn, its
approach for building open next-generation networks. We enable a
high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and
adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified,
virtualized environment. Investors are encouraged to review the
Investors section of our website at www.ciena.com/investors,
where we routinely post press releases, SEC filings, recent news,
financial results, other announcements and, from time to time,
exclusively post material information as with the other disclosure
channels that we use.
Note to Ciena Investors
Forward-looking statements. This press release contains certain
forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and
assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are
based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof; and
Ciena's actual results could differ materially from those stated or
implied, due to risks and uncertainties associated with its business,
which include the risk factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-Q,
which Ciena filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June
12, 2013. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding
Ciena's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the
future and can be identified by forward-looking words such as
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"should," "will," and "would" or similar words. Ciena assumes no
obligation to update the information included in this press release,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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