Transportation

Reducing traffic congestion and highway accidents, decreasing travel times, alerting drivers to hazards, ensuring speedy response to adverse road conditions and emergencies, and delivering a higher quality motorist experience—all while adhering to staff and budget limitations—are just a few of the challenges facing state and local government departments of transportation and tollway authorities. The need to enable real-time transmission of data from intelligent transportation systems devices and cashless tolling systems while laying the foundation for autonomous vehicles is straining networks. Network engineers and operations managers need network technologies that can meet the needs of today’s digital transportation applications, while scaling to the future needs of automated highways, ubiquitous broadband, and an increasingly software-defined environment.

Ciena enables transportation and tollway authorities
in these strategic areas:

Leverage network technology to revolutionize and monetize tollway operations

Generate cost savings and new revenue sources by deploying high-performance, reliable, and resilient network infrastructure and optimizing existing fiber network assets

Modernize networks to support future innovations and broadband initiatives

Ensure networks are ready to support autonomous vehicles, and cashless tolling systems and provide capacity for rural broadband initiatives

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Next-generation networks to support ITS

Deliver performance and real-time requirements of new ITS applications

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Leverage network technology to revolutionize
and monetize tollway operations

Generate cost savings and new revenue sources by deploying high-performance , reliable, and resilient network infrastructure
and optimizing existing fiber network assets

Articles
Is your tollway authority searching for non-toll revenue sources? Look no further than your fiber assets.

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda discusses options for tollway authorities to generate new revenue sources by leveraging their fiber network assets.
Built For Speed! Maximizing Your Fiber Network Investment Beyond Tolling

Discover how tollway authorities can leverage network technology to revolutionize and monetize tollway operations to drive financial success.
Case Studies
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) Converts to Cashless Tolling Fueled by Ciena’s Network Technology Solution

Ciena played a key role in enabling Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) realize its vision by upgrading the network infrastructure to support new capabilities.
Infobriefs
Modernizing and monetizing DOT networks without fiber upgrades

The funding from the FY 2021 Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act present a much-needed opportunity for state and local DOTs.

Next-generation networks to support ITS

Ensure performance and delivery of new ITS applications through next-generation packet optical network technology

Infobriefs
Smarter Roads and a Safer Transportation Future

Road networks are getting smarter, with sensors and networks helping transportation agencies manage congestion and improve safety for drivers and pedestrians.
Case Studies
CDOT: Ready for the High-Tech Road

Some of the most exciting technologies for governments are being developed and deployed to improve one of the most vexing public sector challenges.
Articles
Next-generation networks help DOT’s deliver quality motorist experience

Converged packet-optical technology enhances Department of Transportation’s intelligent transportation systems while paving the way for future automated highways.
Podcasts
Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 31: An Avalanche of Data – Colorado’s Roadways of the Future

CDOT’s Bob Fifer and John Williams share what network requirements are needed to maintain the 28 billion miles of annual vehicle travel on Colorado’s roadways
Videos
How An Adaptive Network Helps the Colorado Department of Transportation Make Travel Safer and More Convenient

Learn more about the technologies that make up the Adaptive Network, and how they help CDOT reduce complexity in a dynamic network and impact the future of transportation.
Case Studies
Ciena Helps States Implement Intelligent Transportation Systems that Improve Motorist Experience

Ciena can bring state DOT networks to a ‘carrier-grade’ level to provide the bandwidth required to support the growing number of sensors, video cameras et al.
Infobriefs
Prevent Transportation System Downtime with Resilient Networks

IT professionals encounter seemingly endless challenges and demands that can impact the quality of the motorist experience. Any threat or vulnerability that impedes traffic manager access to data from remote roadside ‘smart’ devices can cause serious
Articles
Is your network putting the brakes on your intelligent transportation system?

As intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications become more sophisticated, ensuring network uptime has become increasingly difficult for state departments of transportation (DOTs). Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda highlights how DOT’s can add resiliency
Infobriefs
The Road to Resiliency: Paving the Way for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Network optimization is an essential tactic for ensuring organizations have the on-demand connectivity, availability, and performance that modern applications require.
Videos
Why a Resilient Network is Key to Improving the Nation's Roadways

Watch to see how the right next-generation network technology and design can help DOTs ensure their networks are always on and ready.

Modernize networks to support future innovations and broadband initiatives

Ensure networks are ready to support autonomous vehicles and provide capacity for rural broadband initiatives.

Videos
Bridging the Gap Together, Delivering Broadband to Rural Communities

In this panel discussion, you’ll hear from a utility in Alabama (Cullman Electric) that launched scalable broadband to its rural community and more.
Videos
The Road to Automation: Practical Steps Transportation Leaders Can Take to Achieve Network Modernization

Learn more about the role of automation, virtualization, and cloud in simplifying and streamlining network management
Infobriefs
Modernizing and monetizing DOT networks without fiber upgrades

The funding from the FY 2021 Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act present a much-needed opportunity for state and local DOTs.
Infobriefs
Government Agencies and the Edge: The Power of Virtualization

IT infrastructure at the edge is essential to day-to-day government operations. Application servers et al keep remote agency locations connected to the citizens
Articles
Smart Transit: Moving Beyond Points A and B

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains smart transit, the smart rail experience of the future is a fully integrated experience.
Case Studies
Ciena Helps States Implement Intelligent Transportation Systems that Improve Motorist Experience

Ciena can bring state DOT networks to a ‘carrier-grade’ level to provide the bandwidth required to support the growing number of sensors, video cameras et al.
Podcasts
Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 31: An Avalanche of Data – Colorado’s Roadways of the Future

CDOT’s Bob Fifer and John Williams share what network requirements are needed to maintain the 28 billion miles of annual vehicle travel on Colorado’s roadways

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