Ciena WDM platform boosts T-Online's optical backbone capacity
June 8, 2005 Linthicum, MD -- Ciena today announced that T-Online, part of Deutsche Telekom, has selected the company's optical transport platform as part of the operator's comprehensive program to expand its network infrastructure across France. Under the agreement, T-Online will deploy Ciena's CoreStream Agility platform to deliver additional network capacity and enhanced performance to its Club Internet customers.
Ciena says the platform will employ wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology to provide greater levels of flexibility, bandwidth, and reliability across the operator's ADSL network. According to the company, the platform, based on open standards, will transport voice, video, and data services to the operator's customers in France, while lowering the operator's overall cost of delivery.
The CoreStream Agility platform is part of the company's FlexSelect line. The company calls the platform a standards-based, service-oriented network architecture driven by flexible hardware, intelligent software, and service-oriented network management. The company says the platform delivers agile WDM through software-enabled re-routing of signals and reconfiguration of network traffic. Capable of routing 2.5-Gbit and 10-Gbit wavelengths, with migration to 40G wavelengths, for long-haul and ultra long-haul network routes, the platform also features an all-optical bypass to eliminate optical-electrical-optical (OEO) signal conversions and transceivers, according to the company. The company says the system can lower ongoing operational costs by automating end-to-end service provisioning and management, inventory and resource tracking, dynamic power management, and channel-based intelligent digital performance monitoring, for troubleshooting and supporting service level agreements.
"Our experience delivering application-focused solutions in high-growth areas such as broadband access, carrier-class Ethernet and, now, third generation wireless, in addition to our core networking market leadership, is helping service providers such as T-Online add more flexibility to their networks to generate greater performance - and revenue - from their infrastructure," comments Eric Sele, Ciena's managing director for southern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
"Ciena's expertise and credentials in the optical transport marketplace, backed by the flexibility of the platform and responsiveness of the Ciena team, proved decisive factors for us," concludes Yvan Grignon, network director at T-Online.