Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ:CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that its FlexSelect™ 40G Shelf was honored by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) with an InfoVision Award for Network Core Innovation and Advances.
The InfoVision Award program gives tribute to the technologies, applications, products, advances and services judged as the most unique and beneficial to the information and communications technologies (ICT) industry. The winners were announced this week at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin.
Ciena’s FlexSelect 40G Shelf is a universal solution to transition metro, regional, long-haul and ultra long-haul networks to 40 Gbps while providing a migration path for 100G networking. Complementary to the installed based of CN 4200™ FlexSelect Advanced Services Platforms and CoreStream® Agility Optical Transport Systems, Ciena’s FlexSelect 40G Shelf delivers a seamless, cost-optimized approach to 40G migration with the ability to enable in-service upgrades of granular 40G wavelengths alongside existing 10G wavelengths. It employs advanced modulation format and dispersion compensation technology that brings engineering rules similar to those used for 10G wavelengths to 40G wavelengths, thereby allowing fiber plants designed for 10G wavelengths to be used.
“We’d like to congratulate Ciena for its FlexSelect 40G Shelf that was chosen for this highly-competitive, prestigious InfoVision Award,” commented IEC Vice President of Conference Development Tom Costello. “I’m sure these innovative products and services will have a long-lasting positive impact on the industry and we look forward to customers enjoying the benefits of these innovations.”
Steve Alexander, Ciena’s chief technology officer, said, “This InfoVision award further validates that Ciena’s solutions are at the forefront of helping customers around the globe transition to more efficient networks. The ability of network operators to add 40G wavelengths to 10G networks eliminates the need to re-engineer their networks for 40G transport and drives significant CAPEX and time-to-revenue savings. Customers such as JANET, the UK’s national research and education network, are already benefiting from our 40G solution to address bandwidth demands more efficiently.”
About Ciena
Ciena specializes in network transition. We provide the flexible platforms, intelligent software and professional services to build converged networks for enhanced services and applications. With a growing global presence, Ciena leverages its heritage of practical innovation to deliver maximum performance and economic value in communications networks worldwide. For more information, visit www.ciena.com.
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