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Challenge 1
Scaling your network quickly and cost-effectively
Incremental approaches to increasing network capacity no longer meet exponential traffic growth demands.
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60% of network traffic growth is being driven by dynamic cloud, video, and IoT applications. The incremental approach of deploying more, and increasingly complex routers to scale IP networks won’t keep pace with end user demand. The result? Unnecessary infrastructure, software, and power costs.
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Experiencing high OPEX and complexity due to multiple network architectures
Separate, complex networks for private-line, residential, business, mobile, and shared-fiber (PON) services drive up costs.
Traditionally, operators have deployed a standalone network architecture for each service type—residential, business, and mobile—creating a patchwork of networks that contribute to infrastructure sprawl and escalating CAPEX and OPEX costs.
Challenge 2
Losing revenue and customers due to slow time to market for new services
Fast service expectations, but fragmented and manual processes, create a perfect storm.
Service delivery can take months—a major challenge when customers expect an on-demand experience. The result is not just delayed revenue, but also increased customer churn, and reduced competitive advantage.
Challenge 3
Soaring network management costs
Rising management costs are often due to multiple overlay networks using legacy infrastructure.
Operators must scale their networks to support exponential traffic growth, but network budgets aren’t increasing at the same rate. Continuing to deliver services via separate legacy and overlay networks is driving up costs and eroding service margins—and it’s no longer sustainable.
Challenge 6
Reducing margins and profitability due to escalating infrastructure costs
Meeting connectivity demands is critical, but legacy networks don’t scale fast or cost-effectively enough.
Headwinds such as end-of-life infrastructure and multiple overlay networks—all supported by largely manual processes—mean network management overhead is getting out of control.
Challenge 5
Maximizing reliability and profitability of legacy services
Aging infrastructure is increasing reliability and availability risks of legacy services.
Many operators still generate a high percentage of revenue from legacy services. But spare parts, knowledgeable personnel, and specialized maintenance for aging infrastructure are becoming scarce and more expensive. The risk? Increased service downtime, jeopardizing revenue streams and the customer experience.
Challenge 4
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With up to 60% annual traffic growth driven by cloud services, video, and IoT applications, incremental and manual upgrade strategies hinder time to market for new revenue-generating services. The legacy approach of deploying more and increasingly complex routers to address growth results in unnecessary costs related to hardware, software, real estate, and power.
Use this IP Network Evolution Guide to help you uncover strategic solutions to the most complex challenges your IP network is facing today. In a few simple clicks, you’ll be given exclusive access to a set of eGuides that provide detailed insights on the latest in IP networking strategies.
IP Network Evolution Guide
Use this to help you uncover strategic solutions to the most complex challenges your IP network is facing today. In a few simple clicks, you’ll be given exclusive access to a set of eGuides that provide detailed insights on the latest in IP networking strategies.
Use this IP Network Evolution Guide to help you uncover solutions to the most strategic challenges your IP network is facing today. In a few simple clicks, you’ll be given exclusive access to a set of eGuides that provide detailed insights on the latest in IP networking strategies. Get started by selecting any of the challenges below.
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A 'programmable' Adaptive IP™ infrastructure approach
With Ciena’s unique Adaptive IP approach, you will reduce network management costs while protecting your margins. We can help you reduce your reliance on costly specialist skills and resources, slash the number of devices under management by up to 50 percent, and simplify your manual management requirements with open programmable infrastructure and automation.
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tools to rapidly deliver differentiated IP services, when and where they’re needed.
Network orchestration and automation
specifically designed for access to metro networks, including temperature- and street-hardened infrastructure that can be located in street cabinets, on buildings, and at other edge locations as required.
A purpose-built, right-featured converged IP approach
...unlock bandwidth on demand at the routing, switching, and optical layers of your network to support new applications and services? You’ll shorten time to market and revenue for new services that will improve your commercial success.
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…increase available capacity at the network edge to support the next generation of bandwidth-intensive applications? You’d be able to deliver improved experiences for your customers based on differentiated SLAs, enabling you to achieve new competitive advantage and maximize revenue from emerging 5G and IoT use cases.
…scale your network with a few clicks of the mouse, without the need to continually deploy additional hardware and software in your network? You’ll reduce the cost of scaling your network while delivering new, revenue-generating services—positively impacting your bottom line.
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It’s time to unify the optical, routing, and switching network infrastructure in the aggregation network to support traffic from multiple service types, including business Ethernet, IP, mobile, residential broadband, and shared-fiber (PON) services.
A ‘programmable’ Adaptive IPᵀᴹ infrastructure approach
Unifying the optical, routing, and switching network infrastructure in the aggregation network is called universal aggregation and requires programmable infrastructure that can provide optical, switching, and routing capabilities for multiple service types—all in a single, compact, efficient device infrastructure – this is Ciena’s Universal Aggregation Solution, an Adaptive IP™ use case. When optimized by automation and data-driven analytics, resources are allocated with maximum return and performance by benefitting from cloud-like scale, openness, and intelligent automation.
Countering high OPEX and complexity due to multiple network architectures
Ciena’s Universal Aggregation Solution
Purpose-built, right-featured converged IP solutions
…replace separate optical, switching, and routing networks with a single highly efficient, programmable converged network architecture? This results in a massive reduction of the infrastructure footprint (50 percent or more). Convergence of optical, routing, and switching in a single device supports scalability on demand, with optimized orchestration of available capacity.
…simplify service deployment and ongoing maintenance with an open single management system optimized by analytics-driven automation for all service types? This reduces management cost and complexity via a single management system and single converged network architecture to operate for a maximum financial return and service performance.
…replace multiple networks and overlays that support different service types, with a single architecture to deliver TDM-based private-line, business Ethernet, residential broadband, mobile, and shared-fiber (PON) services? This results in reduced equipment, real estate, power, and support costs.
…simplify service deployment and ongoing maintenance with analytics-driven automation for all service types? This reduces management cost and complexity via an open, single-management system and single converged network architecture to operate for maximum financial return and service performance.
…replace separate optical, switching, and routing networks with a single highly efficient, programmable converged network architecture? This results in a massive reduction of the infrastructure footprint. Convergence of optical, routing, and switching in a single device supports scalability on demand, with optimized orchestration of available capacity.
so you can provision capacity to rapidly support new services remotely, with no need to deploy additional hardware or software in the network.
Delivering services to customers quickly and efficiently— in hours or days, rather than weeks—, requires a dramatic simplification of both the network and operational processes.
Scalable, programmable infrastructure
With Ciena’s Adaptive IP, you can deploy any of our purpose-built, pre-configured platforms to support IP services out of the box and provision and turn up new services remotely. Ciena’s unique portfolio of innovative network infrastructure, software, and services means you’ll be able to deliver new services for your customers in days, not months—so you can accelerate your service velocity and grow your competitive advantage.
Speeding up time to market for new services
that support fast ‘zero-touch’ provisioning of new services in single- and multi-vendor environments.
Leading network orchestration and automation tools
so you can support multiple service types on a single, efficient architecture.
A future-proof network, based on a lean and open set of IP protocols
…scale your network on demand to support new services, with no need for additional hardware and software in the network? You would be able to deliver new services for your customers more quickly, while maximizing ROI on your infrastructure investments.
…eliminate the need for multiple overlay networks to support different types of services? You would be able to simplify your network architecture and achieve significant savings in cost and complexity.
…reduce the need for manual configuration and provisioning effort and costs? You could bring new services to market faster and more efficiently to improve your bottom line.
Delivering services to customers quickly and efficiently—in hours or days, rather than weeks—requires a dramatic simplification of both the network and operational processes.
that leverages programmable infrastructure, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities, and analytics-driven automation poised to efficiently deliver and scale legacy TDM services as well as today’s Ethernet and IP services.
Continuing to deliver highly profitable legacy TDM services reliably and cost-effectively requires an evolutionary move away from costly, complex legacy networks to highly scalable and cost-efficient networks leveraging lean and open IP protocols.
A future-ready, Adaptive IPᵀᴹ network
With Ciena’s Adaptive IP approach, you can migrate legacy services from costly end-of-life networks onto a modern, efficient network at your own pace. This means you can ensure continuity and reliability for your mission-critical legacy services, while also simplifying management based on common IT and IP skills sets. Additionally, you can converge your legacy TDM, Ethernet, and IP services onto our right-sized, power-efficient equipment to dramatically reduce service delivery costs. By doing this, you’ll eliminate continuity risks, lower delivery costs, and—ultimately—optimize your profitability and commercial success. Additionally, you can converge your legacy TDM, Ethernet, and IP services onto our right-sized, power-efficient equipment to dramatically reduce service delivery costs. By doing this, you’ll eliminate continuity risks, lower delivery costs, and—ultimately—optimize your profitability and commercial success.
Continuity and profitability for mission-critical legacy services
which allows you to migrate your legacy services onto the modern, cost-efficient, routing and switching network with a significantly reduced risk of downtime or interruptions for customers.
Proven TDM circuit ‘emulation’ and pseudowire technology
which allows you to migrate and maintain services from legacy/TDM infrastructure to the next-generation network when it makes business sense.
An end-to-end coherent routing and switching network
…reduce reliance on unsupported, end-of-life infrastructure? This means you’ll be able to ensure continuity for your high-value, high-revenue legacy services.
…reduce reliance on increasingly rare support personnel to support your network? You’d be able to slash network management costs with readily available IT and IP skillsets.
…replace sprawling legacy networks with compact, energy-efficient, high-density infrastructure that lets you leverage cloud-like scale and programmability? You’ll simplify management and reduce OPEX, allowing you to maximize margins on legacy services and improve the bottom line.
A future-ready, Adaptive IP network
which leverages programmable infrastructure, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities, and analytics-driven automation poised to efficiently deliver and scale legacy TDM services as well as today’s Ethernet and IP services.
ChallengE 5
that delivers services with a single set of devices.
By converging optical, routing, and switching infrastructure into a single architecture, you’ll be able to protect your margins to increase your commercial success while reducing ongoing operating costs.
A converged optical, routing, and switching architecture
With Ciena’s Adaptive IP approach you can optimize your optical, routing, and switching networks with a single, cost-efficient architecture that reduces your network footprint to reduce your overall network operating costs by up to 50%. You can further reduce your OPEX costs with our purpose-built, right-featured solutions that allow you to migrate away from legacy network designs resulting in major real estate, power and cooling, and management cost savings.
Ending high (and escalating) network management overhead
that can be scaled and configured remotely to support new services for customers.
Programmable infrastructure
designed specifically for access to metro networks and applications.
A purpose-built, right-featured Adaptive IP approach
…optimize your optical, routing, and switching networks and reduce the number of devices in your network by 50%? You’ll dramatically reduce your infrastructure costs with positive impacts for your bottom line.
…reduce the number of costly and inefficient legacy platforms in your network while still meeting your switching and routing needs? You’ll be able to lower your overall OPEX by reducing hardware, real-estate, and management costs.
…scale your network to meet future traffic demands with fewer costly truck rolls? You’ll be able to provision and deploy new services for customers faster – speeding up the billing cycle and improving satisfaction.
…scale your network to meet future traffic demands with fewer costly truck rolls? You’ll be able to provision and deploy new services for customers faster—speeding up the billing cycle and improving satisfaction.
…optimize your optical, routing, and switching networks and reduce the number of devices in your network? You’ll dramatically reduce your infrastructure costs with positive impacts for your bottom line.
with an innovative solution to support existing and new applications by leveraging Ciena’s Adaptive IP .
Slash network management costs with Ciena’s converged optical, routing, and switching network solutions.
Cloud-like scale and openness
Managing spiraling network infrastructure costs
that can be configured and managed cost-effectively using readily available IP skills and resources.
Intelligent, analytics-driven automation
to eliminate manual, error-prone network management tasks related to service activation and maintenance.
Network orchestration and automation software
…reduce the number of devices under management by up to 50 percent? You’d be able to dramatically reduce network management costs and protect your service margins for the long term.
…automate time-consuming network management and service activation tasks? You could reduce management costs and time to market for new, revenue-generating services.
…use lower-cost resources to manage your infrastructure? You could cut staffing costs by reducing your need for specialist skills.
…reduce the number of devices under management? You’d be able to dramatically reduce network management costs and protect your service margins for the long term.