Data security and encryption
Ironclad protection to ensure data remains confidential
Is your data secure in transit?
The challenge
Escalating cybersecurity threats are intensifying pressures to detect and mitigate breaches. Network providers must protect sensitive customer and operational data—as well as their network infrastructure—with the right security measures.
Our approach
Ciena uses a comprehensive strategy built upon proven encryption technology, including OTNsec and MACsec capabilities to ensure all critical in-flight data on your network remains confidential.
The benefits
Ensure that all in-flight data remain secure all the time with multi-layer encryption capabilities that provide a high degree of data security for cost-effective, scalable encryption solutions that are easy to deploy.
Our data security and encryption technology and services
Routing and switching platforms
Our suite of aggregation platforms includes pluggable PON OLTs and ONUs, enterprise-grade desktop ONUs, weather-proof access platforms, and rack unit form factors. Our purpose-built options include MACsec capabilities to secure critical transport.
6500 Family of Packet-Optical Platforms
Our 6500 D/S-Series optical platforms deliver a wide range of services, leveraging a flexible mix of circuit packs with pluggable optics, including 10G, 100G, and 200G wire-speed optical encryption.
Waveserver®
Our stackable interconnect platforms deliver more capacity and lower power for bandwidth-intensive applications, providing massive scale for cloud applications and data services.
WaveLogic Encryption
An in-flight data protection solution with advanced security capabilities that leverages the unmatched performance and programmability of Ciena’s WaveLogic™ Coherent Optics.
Ciena Services
We leverage decades of expertise and innovation to help you build, operate, and improve your network and achieve your business objectives.
The network provides improved scalability, security, capacity and low latency to support the growing high-bandwidth requirements of our customers. It’s also a real benefit to be able to increase capacity quickly going forward, to meet future demands.
Insights
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MACsec Line-rate security for high-speed networks
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