These cost-effective and compact platforms are available with a range of physical ports of up to 10GbE. They’re purpose-built to fit numerous small, medium, and large customer sites as well as multitenant office and residential buildings, supporting Passive Optical Networks (PONs), TDM, Ethernet, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), IP, Segment Routing, and virtual network services. Mounting options include rack, wall, pole or strand, with appropriate enclosures and temperature ranges to solve your unique challenges.

These platforms provide efficient aggregation to cost-effectively fill higher capacity links within both the metro access and aggregation tiers. With PON, Ethernet, MPLS, IP, and Segment Routing capabilities, they simplify network evolution and support new and emerging services. In addition, the 5000 family along offers state-of-the-art Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities, which eliminate significant operational complexity and cost and can be deployed in a wide variety of locations.

Ciena’s 6500 Packet Transport System (6500 PTS) addresses the growing need to maintain the profitable delivery of legacy TDM services, while future-proofing investments toward network modernization. To this day, network providers continue to add to their TDM infrastructure—an investment that is getting more expensive to run and operate. Clearly doing more of the same only increases operational expenses due to expensive spares and higher maintenance, hard-to-find legacy skill sets, and manual operations.

As customers demand savings in power, cooling, and transport costs, Ciena’s family of coherent aggregation and metro routers are delivering results and changing the edge. With multiple coherent routers available, customers can choose the right mix of connections and services—from 1GbE to 400GbE and aggregation to 100/200/400GbE WaveLogic™ 5 Nano coherent pluggables.

Ciena’s family of virtualized solutions and platforms enable multiple network functions to be delivered from the cloud without requiring purpose-built hardware. From broadband to enterprise services, network operators can now rapidly capture new revenue by rolling out virtualized network services at the speed of the cloud through Ciena’s virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG), virtual WiFi Access Gateway (vWAG), and Distributed NFVI (D-NFVI).

The Waveserver® family of stackable interconnect platforms delivers more capacity and lower power for high-performance Data Center Interconnect (DCI), with massive scale to meet the bandwidth needs of the most demanding cloud applications and data services.

The 6500 converges packet, OTN, and flexible WaveLogic Photonics in a single platform to streamline operations and optimize footprint, power, and capacity. And, with off-board software tools you can automate services from creation through orchestration and delivery, boosting differentiation—and your bottom line.

The 6500 converges packet, OTN, and flexible WaveLogic Photonics in a single platform to streamline operations and optimize footprint, power, and capacity. And, with off-board software tools you can automate services from creation through orchestration and delivery, boosting differentiation—and your bottom line.