Ciena® Corporation
(NYSE: CIEN), the network specialist, and AT&T, one of the world’s
leading data, voice, wireless and Internet services providers, today
announced a deployment with Itron,
a world-leading technology and services company dedicated to the
resourceful use of energy and water. With Ciena Network Transformation
Solutions (NTS) and AT&T’s global managed service, Itron can better
manage, monitor and control its network performance to ensure
availability and performance of business-critical applications. The
managed service provides a comprehensive view of Itron’s available
network resources and offers a sustainable governance platform to
allocate bandwidth consistent with defined business objectives.
Key Facts:
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With a global workforce of more than 8,000 employees in more than 80
offices worldwide, Itron relies on advanced communications and
back-office applications to keep its team productive. It is critical
that the company’s network keep pace with demand, prioritizing and
guaranteeing bandwidth availability for a rich and consistent
experience for employees.
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Driven by powerful analytics and a software-enabled solution set,
Ciena’s Network Transformation Solutions allow businesses, like Itron,
to guarantee the performance of critical business applications such as
unified communications and centralized back-office software.
Specifically, Application
Assurance Managed Service (AAMS) gives Itron precise control over
its network resources, helping the company’s IT team to manage finite
bandwidth and direct it to the applications and communication services
that need it most.
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By managing network resources proactively and programming the network
to allocate capacity automatically, Ciena’s AAMS guarantees that
critical business services will perform when needed. Part of Ciena’s
suite of Network Transformation Solutions NTS, AAMS draws on Ciena’s OPn
architecture approach for building programmable networks that scale
and automatically respond to changing demands for high-bandwidth
applications and services.
Executive Comments:
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“We need to ensure that our team is focused on delivering value to our
customers, not whether their communications tools are going to perform
as expected. In particular, with a finite amount of bandwidth, we need
to make sure that our network resources are used efficiently, in ways
that drive greater productivity and collaboration. Ciena’s Application
Assurance Managed Service adds intelligence to our network that allows
us to achieve both of those goals.”
- Chuck
McAtee, vice president of information technology and Chief Information
Officer, Itron
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“The proliferation of network-enabled and mobile business applications
gives our enterprise customers new tools to communicate, collaborate
and grow. Collaborating with Ciena to deliver this advanced managed
service enables us to address our customers’ changing communication
requirements while giving them the ability to get the most value out
of their network. Together we have the strength and commitment to
seize business opportunity with innovative alliances that use
intelligent, software-enabled network architectures and managed
service solutions.”
- Anne
Chow, senior vice president, AT&T Premier Client Group
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“Ciena has a deep understanding of how networks operate and the
strategies to ensure resiliency and predictability. It is our job to
focus on networks, so that enterprises can stay focused on their
business. IT departments today are under constant strain of changing
traffic patterns and needs. Our Network Transformation Solutions
practice helps to monetize service providers’ network architectures,
offering proactive managed services that allow operators to leverage
network assets more efficiently.”
- Michael
Jones, vice president and general manager AT&T account, Ciena
Technology Background:
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Ciena’s NTS is a consultative practice offering a suite of services
based on network analytics and transformational planning that help
carriers and enterprises migrate, consolidate and build out new
networks, maximizing revenue and profitability. AAMS is a new service
offering within this portfolio.
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AT&T delivers a variety of tools businesses require to govern and
forecast network performance at every level. Through an agreement with
Ciena, AT&T customers have access to view the network’s applications
to drive greater productivity and efficiencies while preserving
business cadence. Although our agreement is relatively new, Ciena was
one of six recipients of the 2013 AT&T Supplier Award.
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Ciena’s AAMS uses technology from Ipanema
Technologies, to proactively provide application performance
management. Ciena is also demonstrating its corporate and strategic
commitment to supplier inclusion by contracting with Link
America to deliver next-generation operational support for this
service.
Supporting Resources:
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company and one
of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and
affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T
services in the United States and internationally. With a powerful array
of network resources that includes the nation’s most reliable 4G LTE
network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed
Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet,
AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S.
carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most
countries. It also offers advanced TV service with the AT&T U-verse®
brand. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services
is one of the most advanced in the world.
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Reliability claim based on data transfer completion rates on nationwide
4G LTE networks. 4G LTE availability varies.
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) 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
its OPn architecture for 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,
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Ciena's actual results could differ materially from those stated or
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which include the risk factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-K,
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