Ciena®
(NYSE: CIEN) is extending the benefits of its market-leading 6500
Packet-Optical Platform to significantly increase network scalability
and accelerate the move to open, virtualized, SDN-based architectures.
Ciena’s 6500 T-Series is purpose-built for the Terabit world, offering
significantly reduced power consumption and space requirements. It
enables service providers to scale their metro and regional networks to
support today’s voracious demand for web-scale applications like
streaming video, cloud computing and virtualized, software-based
networking capabilities.
Verizon
is in the process of deploying Ciena’s 6500 T-Series to scale its next
generation 100G metro network from both a capacity and an operational
perspective, as well as efficiently distribute customizable content to
end users and provide an on-demand, superior customer experience.
Executive Comments:
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“More powerful smartphones, tablets and the proliferation of streaming
video from consumers and businesses alike are pushing networks to the
brink of current capabilities. T-Series adds powerful new capabilities
to our market-leading 6500 Packet-Optical Platform family and builds
on its widespread installed base to help our customers build larger,
more agile and robust networks that cater to rising web-scale demands
today and well into the future.”
- Scott McFeely, Senior Vice
President, Networking Platforms Division, Ciena
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“Service providers must build networks that can connect consumers and
businesses to ever evolving cloud and virtualization services as well
as respond to the viral nature of today’s web-scale world. Ciena does
this in the 6500 T-Series by leveraging the latest technology to
deliver industry leading packet-optical density. This announcement is
a big deal - the 6500 T-Series extends on the success of the 6500 in
the marketplace and simultaneously demonstrates Ciena’s leadership in
both converged packet & OTN switching and photonics.”
- Andrew
Schmitt, Founder and Lead Analyst, Cignal AI
Available this month, Ciena’s 6500 T-Series provides up to ten times
more port density, scaling from 2.4 Tb/s to 24 Tb/s in a single chassis,
and to more than 100 Tb/s in a multi-chassis nodal configuration,
ensuring service providers can efficiently meet exploding bandwidth
requirements for years to come.
Additional 6500 Enhancements:
Ciena is also adding greater levels of openness and programmability to
its entire 6500 Packet-Optical Platform family, giving service providers
the ability to quickly deliver new customizable services and respond to
unpredictable traffic demands. Specifically, Ciena is adding open API
support and the ability to leverage its Emulation
Cloud, which allows service providers to create, test and fine-tune
customized applications in a virtual networking environment, giving them
the power to innovate and speed time-to-market for new services.
Ciena is also integrating 6500 into its Blue
Planet software, enabling service providers to automate services –
from creation through orchestration and delivery – across both physical
and virtual domains as well as multi-vendor environments.
Ciena’s 6500 converges packet, OTN, and flexible WaveLogic photonics
capabilities in a single platform, as well as across multiple shelf
configurations with a single software stream, helping to streamline
operations and optimize footprint/power/capacity to site requirements.
In addition, Ciena has consistently ranked #1 in IHS/Infonetics’ Optical
Vendor Leadership survey
in the “Top Packet-Optical Supplier” category.
Upcoming Event:
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On Thursday, March 31 at 11:00 a.m. ET, Ciena will host a live
webinar, “New Metro Architectures Driven by Web-scale Effect.”
To register for the webinar, click here.
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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