CIENA Announces First 10-Gigabit
Solution for Metropolitan Optical
Transport
Enhancements to CIENA's MultiWave Metro Are First to Enable New 10G
Services
LINTHICUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 1999--CIENA Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN
- news) today announced enhancements to its MultiWave Metro(TM) intelligent optical transport
system that will enable speeds of 10 gigabits per second across 24 channels. These industry-first
enhancements will offer service providers the ultimate carrier-class optical transport capacity for
delivering new 10-gigabit Ethernet and broadband Internet services across metropolitan fiber
networks. Customer trials are expected to begin by the end of the first half of calendar 2000.
``Getting an early lead in this market will prove to be very important,' said Scott Clavenna, principal
analyst at Pioneer Consulting, which has forecast the metro DWDM market to grow to nearly $1
billion by 2003. ``Next year's IP routers and ATM switches will have 10-gigabit interfaces, which
will allow carriers to create scalable metropolitan optical networks to support new classes of service.
CIENA's Metro system will make new services like 10-gigabit Ethernet and protected OC-192
services possible in the metro space.'
In metropolitan networks, carriers traditionally have relied on low-capacity fiber rings for delivery
and protection of data services. As data continues to overtake voice traffic in the public network, the
current infrastructure is not a cost-effective means of transport, and the overlapping protection rings
tend to be expensive and slow to deploy. CIENA's Metro solution enables unprecedented capacity
for optical transport on existing fiber with built-in carrier-class linear, ring and mesh protection. Metro
provides SONET/SDH, IP, ATM, Gigabit Ethernet and private line service delivery, plus automated
span provisioning with SmartSpan(TM) embedded software.
Recognized as the pioneer in optical transport technology, CIENA has designed the MultiWave
Metro to offer features such as open interfaces, arbitrary connectivity, flexible channel assignments
and less restrictive span designs to give service providers freedom to maximize their networks.
Typically, carriers use the MultiWave Metro for high-capacity traffic collection, for point-of-presence
interconnections, for service overbuilds and to create new broadband networks on leased fiber.
CIENA is the market leader in developing and deploying intelligent optical transport solutions for
metropolitan networks. The company already has announced major MultiWave Metro deployments
in the networks of Cable & Wireless USA, Completel in France, and UK-based wholesale carrier
iaxis.
MultiWave Metro is part of CIENA's LightWorks(TM) architecture for building intelligent optical
networks. LightWorks extends integrated capabilities in optical transport, core switching and
multi-service access technologies through software-driven intelligence embedded throughout the
optical network. With its LightWorks suite of solutions, CIENA is helping carriers around the world
break free from the costs and complexities of the legacy network infrastructure.
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