Profitable growth starts with your network foundation
Scale faster, expand reach, grow revenue
Entering new markets, adding subscribers, and launching new services depend on building a cable/MSO access network that scales without adding complexity. Our high-capacity, programmable foundation helps you extend fiber reach, deliver services faster, and unlock new revenue opportunities—transforming network investments into profitable growth and better customer experiences.
Accelerate market expansion
Expand capacity more efficiently, reach new communities, and create additional service opportunities with an architecture designed for scalable growth. Purpose-built for cable/MSO deployment, the 5131 Coherent Access Platform (5131-CAP) extends fiber deeper into access and regional networks.
Create new revenue streams
Grow beyond residential broadband by capturing more enterprise and high-capacity connectivity opportunities with your existing network investments. By delivering scalable private data network services, you can attract business customers, support hyperscaler needs, and capitalize on emerging neoscaler demand.
Scale without complexity
Support network growth without added operational complexity. Our programmable foundation helps streamline operations with automation, visibility, and intelligent control so you can accelerate service delivery, improve reliability, and reduce the manual effort required to keep pace with demand.
Comcast deploys Ciena technology to extend fiber impact
With the 5131-CAP, Comcast extended its fiber deployments more than 100 km and delivered 100 Gb/s connectivity to new and existing underserved communities.
Our cable/MSO technology and services
Coherent routing
Achieve dynamic scalability and network expansion with coherent routing, featuring the latest in IP/Optical innovation.
Routing and switching
Address growing connectivity requirements, from access to metro, with programmable, scalable, disaggregated, and SDN-ready platforms.
Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio
Unlock the business value of networking expertise combined with operations support systems innovation.
Optical networking
Create faster, smarter networks from metro to long haul with industry-leading optical networking.
Navigator Network Control Suite
Accelerate multi-vendor, multi-layer network operations from one point of control with Navigator NCS.
5131 Coherent Access Platform
Tackle fiber shortages and edge challenges with this weatherproof, high-capacity router delivering efficient 100 Gb/s for MSO networks.
Services
Work with experts who help your network evolve to meet changing demands and enhance customer experience.
Insights
Thrive in the AI era
Unlock network evolution, operational excellence, and revenue generation.
High-capacity switching and transport
Discover how high-capacity switching and routing unlocks smarter, scalable network growth.
Enterprise
Build seamless, reliable enterprise routing and switching with 1GbE–100GbE speeds.