Features and benefits

1. Up your application game

   Unlocking the full potential of Ciena’s open APIs has never been so easy. Emulation Cloud provides the tools to help jump-start your development and integration efforts. Questions? Emulation Cloud gives you direct access to Ciena experts as well as discussion groups to support you along the way. We’ve got you covered.

2. Test against a digital twin of your network

   Whether you’re testing new architectures or operationalizing new services and workflows, Emulation Cloud lets you design and test against a digital twin of your network—so you can test virtually, in the cloud, and before deploying into your live network.

3. Accelerate service activation without driving up costs

   Life is good in the cloud. Emulation Cloud allows you to cost-effectively create tools to manage the network and provision services. A lower cost of entry to develop new service models? Yes, please.

4. Accelerate and ease IT integration efforts

   Geographically diverse development teams can access virtual lab resources 24 x 7 to streamline global development and testing across different time zones. Easily create, test, and fine-tune applications and scripts via a cloud-based environment.

5. Expand your knowledge base

   Access full API definitions and documentation, tutorials, sample code, and more. Ask the user community for suggestions or even tap into Ciena experts for answers about our open APIs and code.

6. Lab time on your time

   Schedule and use virtual lab time any day, at any time. No more waiting for physical lab access and resource—with Emulation Cloud, your lab is in the cloud. Develop and test unique operational tools without IT infrastructure investment.