Broadband
Flexible, scalable networking for long-term profitability
The challenge
Broadband access networks must evolve to meet ever-increasing bandwidth demand, while enabling operators to remain competitive by driving sustained profitability with greater scalability and efficiency. But many solutions are rigid, requiring more products, more capacity deployment than necessary, and more space and power than sustainability goals allow.
Our approach
Ciena’s broadband solution enables operators to build anywhere, scale incrementally, and drive sustainability. This flexibility is achieved through groundbreaking innovation in passive optical network (PON) pluggables, purpose-built routers, and agile subscriber management and network control software.
The benefits
Serve more customers in more locations, while enabling any combination of residential, business, and mobile services to maximize your revenue potential. And with XGS-PON, 25GS-PON, and higher rates in the future, you can cost-effectively scale as demand requires, achieving greater sustainability with the smallest-footprint, lowest-power technology.
Our broadband technology and services
Optical network units (ONUs)
Deliver high-performance XGS-PON services to residential and business customers with fast, secure, reliable ONUs.
Pluggable optical line terminals (OLTs)
Deploy a fully functional OLT in a small form-factor pluggable to flexibly and easily scale with demand—anywhere in the access network.
Host routers
Turn up services anywhere using a range of host routers that integrate pluggable uOLTs, coherent optics, and high-performance routing.
Virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG)
Manage subscriber broadband at scale—while flexibly and reliably adapting to demand—with Ciena’s software-defined, cloud-native vBNG.
Navigator Network Control Suite
Gain visibility and unified control to deploy services faster, troubleshoot easily, and optimize network resources as subscriber demand grows.
Blue Planet automation
Optimize and automate the planning, deployment, and operations of fiber broadband services across multi-vendor networks.
Broadband services
Turning broadband technology into a profitable business takes deep technical and operational expertise. Trust Ciena Services to make it happen.
Ciena’s broadband network architecture
Innovations like Ciena's micro OLT (uOLT) and vBNG combined with a robust family of routers, managed by our Navigator™ Network Control Suite (Navigator NCS), are redefining broadband access flexibility, scalability, and sustainability—giving operators a path to better broadband.
Customer stories
Ciena’s broadband solution aligns perfectly with our goals, offering unparalleled scalability and economical service delivery.
— Jim Cannon, CEO, Pivot-Tech Development
Read customer storyWe wanted to use the best coherent pluggable technology available for our needs and eliminate expensive signal regeneration across the state—and that is what we got with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Nano.
— Terry Metze, CEO, Alabama Fiber Network
Read customer storyWith Ciena’s innovative broadband solution, we can offer customers a broader, more dynamic scope of internet service that fits all needs, at any level.
— Robert Hinton, President and CEO, Micrologic
Read customer storyCiena’s XGS-PON ticked all the boxes, allowing us to increase network performance and scale for future upgrades while providing an exceptional user experience.
— Torbjørn Lernes, Network System Administrator, Sodvin
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