To support its recently announced
broadband expansion project, Indiana Fiber Network, LLC (IFN) has
selected converged
packet optical and packet
networking solutions from Ciena®
(NYSE: CIEN) to ensure network resiliency, reduce costs and increase
capacity. With Ciena, IFN can rapidly provision new high-speed offerings
like Ethernet business services, 10G, and 100G services to its service
provider, data center and enterprise customers. Bringing these scalable
and secure communication services to users in both urban and rural areas
will help drive sustainable economic development across the state.
Key Facts:
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IFN is owned by a consortium of 20 independent telephone companies and
provides a variety of communications services, including fiber-optic
broadband, to both urban and rural areas in 52 Indiana counties. Its
customers include carriers, service providers, enterprise businesses,
government entities, educational and healthcare institutions, as well
as independent telephone company members.
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One such customer benefiting from IFN’s network is Community Health
Network, one of Central Indiana’s two largest health care providers.
With Ciena, IFN connected Community Howard Regional Health and
Community’s affiliated Kokomo area physicians’ sites. Community Health
Network relies on its own private Dense Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (DWDM) ring to connect its main Indianapolis area
campuses. IFN currently provides connectivity to 24 remote locations
into CHN data centers.
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Architected for network modernization projects like IFN’s, Ciena’s 5400
and 6500
converged packet optical platforms, equipped with WaveLogic
Coherent Optical Processors and integrated switching capabilities,
will help IFN address increased bandwidth demands with the highest
levels of quality and survivability. Ciena’s Flexible Grid
Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) technology
simplifies operations and provides greater network flexibility by
enabling new wavelengths to be remotely added or dropped, which allows
IFN to easily turn up new services as needed.
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IFN’s flexible network expansion, an example of Ciena’s OPn
network architecture that enables programmable and scalable network
designs, also benefits from Ciena’s 3930
and 3916
Service Delivery Switches, 5142
Service Aggregation Switch and OneControl
Unified Management System. Together,
these powerful solutions and software capabilities allow IFN to
automate provisioning and streamline network management for faster
service turn-up while supporting mesh restoration, which offers
greater resiliency and service availability.
Executive Comments:
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“IFN has a history of providing broadband not only to urban areas, but
also in some of the most rural parts of Indiana. Ciena has helped us
on this journey as our exclusive provider of network infrastructure
since 2006. The quality and reliability of the technology, and Ciena’s
ability to help us provide cost-effective, scalable and intelligent
bandwidth as our customer demands have grown over time, is unmatched.”
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Kelly Dyer, IFN President and CEO
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“IFN understands my business; they comprehend the urgency and the need
for an easy process to add or make changes to our infrastructure
network. We have a partnership; IFN is able to customize solutions
that create real business value for Community Health Network.”
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Chris Cerny, Director of Enterprise Networking Services, Community
Health Network
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“IFN’s modernized network helps position them as the go-to service
provider in Indiana for advanced communications services demanded by
wholesale, enterprise, research and education, and local government
customers. Ciena’s converged packet optical, packet networking and
intelligent software capabilities give IFN a
reliable, high-performance network that ensures its customers have
greater access to broadband connectivity and economic opportunity.”
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Jason Phipps, General Manager and VP of North America Sales, Ciena
Supporting Resources:
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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About Indiana Fiber Network
Indiana Fiber Network, LLC (IFN) was formed in March of 2002. IFN’s
ownership is comprised of 20 local exchange telephone companies
throughout the state. IFN offers data center, Internet backbone and data
transport services over state-of-the-art Ethernet, CDWM, DWDM and SONET
fiber networks, with service in the state of Indiana and throughout the
US via a network of national carrier partners. Follow IFN on Twitter at www.twitter.com/indianafiber.
For more information, please visit IFN’s website at www.ifncom.net
or call (317) 280-4636.
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 March
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result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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