On-demand wave services
Expand your niche in the evolving cloud ecosystem
Increase competitive differentiation and unlock new revenue
The challenge
Moving massive amounts of data across clouds in just hours requires on-demand, high-capacity connectivity, especially near the metro edge. This challenge presents an opportunity to leverage your optical network assets to deliver an innovative, high-capacity cloud exchange service.
Our approach
We offer a flexible, scalable, and secure switched optical infrastructure using intelligent automation to provide an on-demand, high-capacity wavelength service with enhanced service-level agreement options. This pay-as-you-go solution allows enterprises to quickly provision and schedule 100G/400G of capacity when and where they need it.
The benefits
Unlock new revenue opportunities with industry-leading coherent optics that scale up to 800G and a flexible ROADM-based optically switched infrastructure. Offer a premium customer experience with dedicated high-speed, low-latency, and highly secure multi-cloud access on demand.
Our on-demand wave services technology and services
WaveLogic™ Coherent Optics
Our coherent optics are deployed across our optical and routing and switching products to power 100G to 1.6 Tb/s solutions driving scalability, intelligence, and programmability.
Waveserver®
Our stackable interconnect platforms deliver more capacity and lower power for bandwidth-intensive applications, providing massive scale for cloud applications and data services.
6500 Reconfigurable Line System
A compact, simple-to-deploy, photonic layer solution that improves scalability, reduces footprint, and offers more capacity per fiber, faster.
6500 D/S-Series photonics
Continually stay ahead of unpredictable customer demands with Ciena’s proven 6500 D/S-Series Packet Optical Platforms—from 800G performance optics and 400G coherent pluggables to compact ROADMs and control plane automation.
Bandwidth on demand
Bandwidth on demand from Blue Planet® provides customer-controlled immediate and scheduled Ethernet and OTN service activation for differentiated pay-as-you-go pricing.
Navigator Network Control SuiteTM (NCS)
Navigator NCS provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer, multi-vendor network operations—reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.
Ciena Services
Leveraging our proven transformation methodology, we work with CSPs to identify their best strategy and architecture to enable on-demand wave services for edge cloud exchange applications. Our Build, Operate, and Improve lifecycle services continually improve CSP networks, ensuring they run at peak performance and accelerate their journey to the Adaptive Network™.
Where in your network are you feeling the pressure?
Next-generation metro and edge networks are comprised of key technologies and architecture approaches to address specific use cases that are critical to your business. Explore why traditional approaches to these architectures need to evolve—and how.
Insights
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What’s making the cloud so edge-y?
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Break away from the pack: How service providers can win by owning the edge
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Enabling On-Demand Wave Services for Edge Cloud Exchange
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Enabling Next-Generation Metro and Edge Networks for Communications Service Providers
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