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Ciena today announced that GTS Central Europe has deployed Ciena's converged packet optical solutions to upgrade its international network to 100G.
The deployment will provide improved scalability, capacity and low latency to support the growing high-bandwidth requirements of GTS' enterprise and government customers as well as 100GE backbone services to enable efficient connectivity for carriers and content providers to their regional networks.
GTS owns and operates an extensive fiber optic and data center network throughout the CEE region, providing a full range of services that ranges from basic voice and data, to complex virtual private networks and managed cloud environments. It targets global corporations, carriers and public institutions needing infrastructure services throughout the CEE region.
After successfully testing Ciena's solutions, GTS selected the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with WaveLogic 3 Coherent Optical Processors to provide 100G capacity along its high-traffic routes in Poland, Czech Republic and Germany. An important feature of Ciena's 6500 leveraged in this deployment is the ability to support 100GE services in addition to unregenerated 100G wavelengths over distances of 1400 kms on GTS' transport network.
This deployment builds upon a long-standing relationship between Ciena and GTS, which has already deployed Ciena's 4200 Family, CoreStream Agility Optical Transport System and packet networking products throughout its network.
Ciena's converged packet optical technology allows us to provide capacity and latency improvements to our international networks, and support bandwidth-intensive services and enterprise applications," said Sunny Kumar, vice president of marketing and business development at GTS.
"With our converged packet optical solutions, GTS' upgraded network will do just that to meet the growing transport and latency sensitive needs of their customers in the CEE region and beyond," said Nick Walden, regional managing director, Northern Europe at Ciena.
Ciena's OPn network architecture for building next-gen networks combines optical and packet networking with software programability and open interfaces. Architected for network modernization, Ciena's 6500 converges comprehensive Ethernet, TDM and WDM capabilities into a single platform to support cost-effective delivery of emerging and existing services-from the access edge to the backbone core.