Leverage space and power-optimized equipment to add and drop a variety of protocols and interfaces from a dense 100G transport network—while adapting to different network configurations and supporting site-specific requirements. Ciena’s 6500-D2 with high capacity Add-Drop-Mux-on-a-Blade extends the flexibility, scalability, and resiliency of the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform to the network edge, in a compact 2-rack unit form-factor.
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