Ciena
® (NYSE: CIEN) is introducing a new data center
interconnect (DCI) platform that allows cloud, Internet content
providers and data center providers to quickly scale bandwidth and
support high-speed data transfer, virtual machine migration and disaster
recovery/backup between data centers. With an extremely compact design
that helps reduce real estate costs, Ciena’s new Waveserver™
stackable interconnect platform also provides 60 percent more capacity
per rack unit and nearly 20 terabits per fiber versus competing
available platforms, to support surging bandwidth demands of web-scale
data centers.
Leveraging Ciena’s experience with deployments for some of the world’s
largest Internet content players and leading data center providers, such
as Equinix,
Continuum,
Digital Realty and Forsythe
Data Center, the new platform is powered by Ciena’s WaveLogic
technology and built with open software principles to enable automation
and simplify management. Additionally, with Ciena’s new Emulation
Cloud, an open, rapid prototyping environment, network providers,
data center operators and developers can test and refine applications
before they are added to the network.
Key Facts:
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According to Ovum,
overall global DCI revenue in 2014 grew more than 16 percent, reaching
$2.5 billion. Nearly one-half of all DCI spending in 2014 was from
communications service providers (CSPs), while the Internet content
provider (ICP) segment grew 64 percent year over year. Ovum expects
overall global revenue to hit $4.2 billion by 2019.
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Purpose built for web-scale metro DCI applications, Waveserver is a
highly-compact, stackable interconnect system that provides a
reliable, high-capacity link to interconnect multiple data centers
within a metro area. With Ciena’s OPn
architecture approach and a set of open APIs, network providers can
program Waveserver manually or remotely to quickly establish a
connection via any smart device. Waveserver acts as a “bandwidth
server” to provide “server like” deployment and provisioning.
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Waveserver provides significantly lower cost per transported bit,
lower cost per bit per rack, and lower power consumption versus
available competing products. It provides a total of 800G of input and
output made up of 400G Ethernet clients plus 400G of line capacity in
just one rack unit. It also frees network owners from having to
upgrade their hardware as they increase their client rates by
supporting an arbitrary mix of 10, 40, and 100GbE clients.
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Emulation Cloud is a new, open application development environment
designed to allow data center operators, application developers and
other third-party developers to create, test and fine-tune customized
web-scale applications tailored to their specific needs. Hosted in the
cloud, Ciena’s Emulation Cloud helps accelerate DevOps and ease the
integration with IT systems.
Executive Comments:
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“The requirements of the new DCI operational paradigm can only be met
by introducing new functionalities, tools and capabilities that live
and breathe at web-scale. Ciena’s Waveserver encompasses multiple
attributes of web-scale IT into the network to handle connections,
offer open APIs, and support applications for any bandwidth need
between data centers. The introduction of this platform further
cements Ciena’s established
DCI market leadership.”
- Francois Locoh-Donou, Senior Vice President, Global
Products Group, Ciena
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“Equinix infrastructure plays a critical role in the digital economy’s
interconnected, on-demand era. Ciena’s Waveserver will enable us to
provide more capacity—and more efficient data center interconnect,
using significantly less space and power, which will help us to cost
effectively service our customers and rapidly grow our web-scale
network.”
- Jay Pabley, Vice President, Global Network Engineering,
Equinix
Upcoming Events:
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On Wednesday, May 20 at 12:00 pm ET, Ciena will host a live virtual
event, “The Future of DCI: A Live Introduction to Ciena Waveserver” to
discuss its new platform. The event will feature Rick Dodd, Senior
Vice President of Portfolio Marketing and Strategic Market
Development, as well as several product development engineers. To
access the event, click here.
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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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