BT deploys Ciena
More than 500 network elements implemented to date
Ciena, the network specialist, has announced that BT has deployed Ciena’s optical Ethernet transport and switching solutions at more than 100 sites across the UK to support the roll-out of its 21st Century Network (21CN).
As a preferred supplier for BT’s 21CN, Ciena provides solutions for the network’s transmission domain, including the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform, CoreDirector Multiservice Switch, CoreStream Agility Optical Transmission System and ON-Center Network and Service Management Suite.
BT, which has completed around 20 percent of its core 21CN national network infrastructure in the UK, has installed more than 500 Ciena network elements to date to connect network nodes in every major city in England, Scotland and Wales, and will soon deploy Ciena equipment in Northern Ireland to extend the products’ reach nationally. BT is also utilizing Ciena’s solutions to transport live voice and data traffic for the first set of 21CN customers based in South Wales.
In addition to the 21CN roll-out in the United Kingdom, Ciena’s CN 4200 platform is being deployed to support BT’s 21CN Global platform. Projects are currently underway across multiple markets around the world to support BT’s global transition to an innovative, next-generation network architecture.
Ensuring flexibility during BT’s network migration, Ciena is implementing solutions that are part of its FlexSelect Architecture, a standards-based, software-driven approach to transitioning to next-generation converged networks. Ideal for BT’s network transformation, Ciena’s FlexSelect Architecture will enable the operator to transition to a software-defined, service-selectable network that delivers any mix of services while offering IP/Ethernet efficiency and the reliability of TDM.
Ciena’s CN 4200, the flagship product of its FlexSelect Architecture, is ideally suited for BT's network transformation as the only multiservice transport and service aggregation platform to enable a flexible, software-defined transition from TDM to service-enhancing packet networks. Additionally, CoreDirector’s embedded software intelligence enables unprecedented network automation and optimization, resiliency and service differentiation while improving operations for BT. CoreStream Agility, with its high capacity, multi-reach and flexible ROADM capabilities, will provide the reconfigurable design flexibility and network automation needed by BT to meet the unique requirements of 21CN.
Ciena’s FlexSelect Architecture product portfolio also includes Ethernet-optimized solutions for an economical infrastructure that offers the flexibility, adaptability, manageability and assuredness required to deliver converged high-performance services.
“We’re proud of our progress thus far on helping BT deliver on its 21CN vision – what is undoubtedly the most innovative and ambitious network transformation in the industry,” said Francois Locoh-Donou, Ciena’s vice president and general manager, EMEA. “Leveraging our FlexSelect Architecture, we’re able to help BT deliver a flexible and fully reconfigurable converged network for the delivery of any type of service with unparalleled resiliency, service quality and management control.”
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