Submarine networking
Maximize submarine network spectral efficiency with GeoMesh Extreme
Sustainably optimize the return on your submarine network assets
The challenge
Submarine networks carry over 99% of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic. The challenge is to keep data flowing reliably while maximizing optical spectrum efficiency for optimized asset monetization.
Our approach
Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme solution offers advanced submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE), software, and next-generation network management systems. With a full suite of professional services, we partner with you to ensure success from start to finish.
The benefits
With the flexibility of open cable systems, network operators can choose best-of-breed SLTE technologies, streamline processes, accelerate service innovation, reduce time-to-revenue, and keep pace with bandwidth demand.
Our submarine networking technology and services
OPTICAL NETWORKING
Waveserver®
Our stackable interconnect platforms deliver more capacity and lower power for bandwidth-intensive applications, providing massive scale for cloud applications and data services.
OPTICAL NETWORKING
6500 Family of Packet-Optical Platforms
Our optical systems integrate WaveLogic™ Coherent Optics, OTN switching, and intelligent photonics into a fully programmable, scalable, modular platform.
OPTICAL NETWORKING
WaveLogic Extreme
WaveLogic Extreme coherent optical devices power 100G-800G scalable, programmable optical transport across longer reaches with less power.
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
Blue Planet® Orchestration
Our software suite offers end-to-end, next-generation, network operations to keep pace with evolving service offerings. Streamline the entire service delivery lifecycle.
MULTI-LAYER CONTROL
Navigator Network Control SuiteTM (NCS)
Navigator NCS provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer, multi-vendor network operations—reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.
Ciena Services
We leverage decades of expertise and innovation to help you build, operate, and improve your network and achieve your business objectives.
Ciena’s strong history of innovation and ability to understand our business needs has been instrumental to our success. WaveLogic 6 pushes the envelope and will help us execute on our network evolution plans and climate change goals by providing the most reliable, energy efficient and fastest connections possible. With WL6e performance simulations showing 1Tb/s wavelength transmission across 12,000km links in our network, we are already looking forward to announcing another networking world first.
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