Planning Tool Calibrator
Operations
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Bandwidth Optimizer
PinPoint OTDR
Channel Margin Gauge
Photonic Performance Gauge
Liquid Restoration
Enables you to proactively ensure optimal system performance by providing access to real-time, accurate planning data for both the existing hardware and new planned services.
Planning and delivery
Planning Tool Calibrator
Fiber loss: 17.70dB
Planned loss: 15.40 dB
Fiber Loss Status
Loss out of planned range
SNR Margin: 8.8dB
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The delivery phase includes deploying the hardware in the network and then adding channels on the network to deliver services.
The operations phase focuses on simplifying the day-to-day operations, including trouble-shooting, of the optical network.
Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum advanced software applications, part of Ciena’s Navigator Intelligent Apps, simplify the way optical networks are engineered, operated, and monetized.
Liquid Spectrum applications
How can I quickly access real-time fiber data to optimize system performance?
Compare actual vs planned losses for every fiber
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Liquid Spectrum: Enabling significant operator benefits throughout the entire photonic network lifecycle
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The optimization phase focuses on maximizing network efficiencies, leveraging analytics and intelligence to drive optimal network performance.
How can I accelerate service turn-up?
I need 800G from A to Z
Based on service policy and modems deployed, 2x 400G is optimal
Recommended spectral placement is XX nm
Bandwidth Optimizer
Automates the wavelength provisioning workflow and optimizes optical capacity augments with the PlannerPlus online network planning tool to provide the optimal capacity, modem settings, and spectral placement for any channel across any network path, based on available deployed hardware and a view of planned services.
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Where is the fiber cut?
PinPoint OTDR
Allows you to precisely localize and address potential trouble spots, reducing the risk of outages and accelerating repair times from days to hours.
Can I upgrade wavelength capacity?
Channel Margin Gauge
Provides instant real-time visibility into the efficiency of your network and lets you know if you can run your deployed optics at higher capacities.
Scan all channels and see which ones are green
How is my optical network performing right now?
ROADM-to-ROADM performance relative to plan Based on +/-1.0db threshold
Photonic Performance Gauge
Provides instant visibility into the state of the photonic network, including the health of optical restoration, with unprecedented real-time visibility of photonic performance, even where no wavelengths are deployed.
How can I increase service availability at no extra cost?
Increase availability by allowing restoration to occur on longer routes at reduced rates
Liquid Restoration
Increases service availability by using available network resources to recover maximum traffic across any available path.
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The planning phase involves engineering of the optical network using information about the fiber plant and a network planning tool.
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SNR Optimizer
How can I further optimize system performance?
Increase availability by allowing restoration to occur on longer routes at reduced rates
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SNR Optimizer
Analyzes real-time system performance metrics and calibration data to maximize the line delivered signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and recommends adjustments to several photonic settings to mine latent system margin that can be used to deliver more network capacity or resiliency.
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How can I optimize spectrum usage to address new capacity demands?
Increase availability by allowing restoration to occur on longer routes at reduced rates
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Spectrum Defragmentation
Analyzes the network to free-up continuous spectrum for new services by optimally reassigning wavelength channels.
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