Service providers face the increasing need to capitalize on the paradigm shift occurring in the ways consumers and enterprises perceive and use network services and bandwidth. To remain differentiated and valuable to end-users, providers must transition networks to service-driven and highly programmable infrastructures.

Providers seeking innovative ways to evolve networks toward packet optimization must implement the right balance of Carrier Ethernet, optical switching, and transport infrastructure, coupled with a robust network management and operating system solution. These capabilities can enable service providers to create a programmable service-delivery engine that allows them to:

• Adapt and scale to any emergent business model
• Manage unpredictability in the marketplace
• Remove traditional barriers to new service ideas and the creation of those services in the network

Ciena’s innovative and industry-leading Carrier Ethernet service delivery, packet-optical transport and switching, and Ciena software suite form a proven set of solutions for a wide range of next-generation enterprise and consumer network services applications. These solutions empower service providers to create and monetize new offerings, changing the way they compete by reducing time to market and accelerating time to profitability.