Products
Carrier Ethernet
- Ciena CES (Carrier Ethernet Service) 3000/5000/8000 Families
- Ciena CES (Carrier Ethernet Service) Family
Disaggregation Platforms
DWDM Data Center Interconnect
DWDM, ROADM
- 6500-D14/S14 Packet-Optical Platform
- 6500-D2 Packet-Optical Platform
- 6500-D7/S8 Packet-Optical Platform
- 6500-S32 Packet-Optical Platform
- 6500 T-Series Packet-Optical Platform
- Ciena 4200 Family
- Ciena 6500 Family
- Ciena / Cyan Z Series
Integrated Network Management
Integrated Network Management & SDN
Multiservice SONET
Next Generation NFV Hardware & Software Platforms
Packet Optical Transport
Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company’s Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking solutions optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, CoreDirector Multiservice Optical Switches, and OTN configuration for the 5410 Reconfigurable Switching System, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products.
The company’s Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company’s Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators.
The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.
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