Ciena 6500 Packet-Optical Platform

Advantages and Benefits

Wider Breadth of Service Offering & Fast Turn-Around to Service Requests

Does not Scale for Exponential Bandwidth Growth: • High Equipment Cost ••• Missed Revenue Opportunities

Expanding Presence with : • Mix of legacy, storage, Ethernet services over single platform •

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Right Cost Points Day 1 with Ability to Offer Pay as You Grow Options

Any Service

DS1/E1/DS3/E3 155M/622M/2.5G/10G/40G

OTU1/2/3/4 10GE/40GE/100GE

FC100/200/400/800/1200 OTU1/2/3/4

Video

Fixed

Fixed

Multiple chassis options for tailored configurations

2.5G 40G 280G 600G

600G1.2T 1.6T 3.2T

• Higher speed links required for business communications and data replication • Surging bandwidth demands driven by mobile bandwidth, video, and IT virtualization

• WaveLogic 3 (100G 400G) superior

performance from the pioneers of coherent: better reach, less regens

• Module-based & central-fabric-based packet and OTN switching for efficient mapping of ALL traffic

• Fully-featured SAOS packet SW inherited from >300,000 deployed packet business

• OneConnect control plane with 12+ years of deployments in largest mesh networks

• Upgradable: from 2.5G to100G

• High speed services: GbE 100GbE • Optimal network utilization & scale w/

unrestricted packet and OTN switching

• Control Plane ready for increased automation and improved availability

• Future Proof: Infrastructure ready for 400GbE today

Unique Technology Differentiation

Network Scaling Challenge

Ciena 6500 Benefits

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