Control and ownership of network facilities is a strategic imperative for agencies with applications that share large amounts of data among key sites regionally, nationally or globally. Research networks and other high-bandwidth optical networks must offer the ability to provide assured bandwidth across regional and national geographies. Agencies can address requirements for high availability, control and flexible network connectivity for bandwidth-intensive applications. These applications support mission goals and the real-time transfer of rich datasets and strategic information between collaborative organizations.

Challenges

Agencies with missions that support national security interests and require transport of critical information must maximize network availability and control of resources, enabling rapid response to changing agency challenges. Some agencies are searching for alternatives to traditional carrier–based services, which provide limited responsiveness and can be costly when provisioned and implemented on a circuit-by-circuit basis.

Solution

Successfully supporting high-bandwidth connections across regional and national optical networks means converging packets and circuits onto an underlying agile WDM layer, with Ethernet and intelligent SONET/SDH providing the unifying structure. Intelligent multiservice optical switching systems and high-capacity transport platforms can combine to allow you to cost-effectively transport, aggregate and switch optical capacity in support of Ethernet, voice, video, data and storage traffic. Agencies need solutions that optimize reliability and fiber capacity for transport applications while increasing bandwidth flexibility for cost-effective and scalable Gigabit Ethernet data services.  These solutions can be available as standalone networks owned and operated by agencies or their integrators, or by service providers as private network builds implemented under their managed services offerings. 

Ciena's offerings

Ciena’s comprehensive long-haul optical transport and switching solution forms the basis of an intelligent, flexible network for high-speed GbE, 10G and SONET/SDH connectivity that scales to meet any capacity requirements. Ciena streamlines the physical network, adds unprecedented bandwidth capacity and automates the core with distributed software intelligence. Ciena’s solutions enable accelerated provisioning of high-bandwidth connectivity and include the industry’s most advanced DWDM platform for regional, long-haul and ultra long-haul applications. Ciena offers market-leading, intelligent multiservice optical switching solutions to make long-haul bandwidth flexible to support the needs of research networking and other high-speed, high-performance networks. Ciena’s solutions are unified by standards-based distributed software for automating and managing a dynamic, data-aware optical network.

Benefits

• Deploy open architecture platforms so you can efficiently transport at speeds up to 40G while lowering the overall costs of delivering new connectivity
• Highest availability with platforms proven globally in the world's largest government and service provider networks
• Rapidly deliver end-to-end optical capacity across the network with flexible protection options and maximum operational simplicity Shorten provisioning times for new high-speed connections by automating end-to-end provisioning and management
• Optimize reliability, flexibility and fiber capacity for long-haul transport
• Scalable to 100G to meet future bandwidth requirements