Ciena Corp.(CIEN) in June announced its vision for creating service-driven networks by transforming networks into programmable service delivery engines – essentially enabling service providers to view their network as a programmable set of network resources that can automatically activate any type of service between any set of endpoints as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Today the company is following up on that news with additions to its Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery Portfolio, including new CN 3911 and CN 3920 Service Delivery Switches, and enhancements to its service-aware operating system, which combine with the Ethernet Services Manager software to simplify and scale Carrier Ethernet service creation, activation and upgrades.
The CN 3911 is an environmentally hardened switch designed for use indoors or out. It can support a wide range of mobile backhaul and business services applications and also provides significant cost savings in terms of real estate, site conditioning and power consumption. It accommodates two Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network ports, eight 10/100/1000 user ports as well as optional system components, including a physically secure module for customer access to user ports and a voice module with two FXS ports with POTS-VoIP gateway functionality.
The CN 3920, meanwhile, includes a high-capacity switching fabric with all GbE ports – four 100/1000mbps optical and eight 10/100/1000mbps copper – in a compact single rack unit ETSI form factor that provides front access to power and all network and management interfaces.
Ciena’s service-aware operating system serves as the common software intelligence shared across all Ciena Service Delivery Switches and Service Aggregation Switches for consistent system and service attributes. This latest version has been upgraded with new Ethernet control and management plane protocols, Ethernet encapsulation techniques and Carrier Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) mechanisms, all of which enhance its fault and performance management, virtual switching, SLA verification and quality of service capabilities.
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