Lightower Deploys 100G Services to Customers

Ciena^® Corporation announces it has been selected by Lightower Fiber Networks to support the delivery of Ethernet services and managed wavelengths at bandwidths up to 100 Gbps. This service will be available immediately to enterprise and service provider customers throughout Lightower’s footprint.  Powered by Ciena’s coherent optical technology, Lightower’s end-to-end fiber-based solutions include 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services as well as 100G managed wavelengths.

Lightower’s new 100G solutions will leverage Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic^™ coherent optical processors to enable delivery of 100G managed wavelength services, and 40 GbE and 100 GbE traffic transported over 100G wavelengths. This will allow Lightower customers to seamlessly scale their networking solutions to support growing capacity demands from the use of multimedia and high definition applications across many key industries including media, finance, telecom, healthcare and government.

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