Boston, MA 04/24/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) is to connect New Continuum Holdings Corporation dba Continuum Data Centers’ Chicago data center to important local exchange points.
Deployment
The collocation service provider, based in Chicago, has selected the network specialist, Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN), to connect its data center in Chicago located in the western suburbs to others including in 350 Cermak. CDC expects to provide high bandwidth and low latency 100G network to serve financial service companies, content delivery networks, service providers and research institutions with the help of Ciena’s platform. CDC aims to support applications including storage networking, cloud computing and big data for all these enterprises. It will also be additionally capable of providing carrier level connectivity to tier 3 and tier 2 network after binding out its examining and Internet exchange community. The installation is forecasted to complete in July this year.
Features
CDC is proposing to deploy Ciena’s 6500 Packet- Optical system that features WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors and integrated switching provisions. This is the industry’s most advanced and latest technology which would enable CDC to enhance its existing fiber to speeds of 100G by increasing capacity as well as the ability to provide transportation via 100G. Ciena’s 6500 system is one of the important components of the its OP(n) architecture which is capable of delivering highly critical network abilities such as scale, network grade applications and programmability, so as to control network behavior with ease and reach up to user needs.
Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN), the leader of coherent optical technology, has delivered as many as 35,000 coherent 40G or 100G line interfaces to more than 150 customers internationally. It has installed in over 35 million coherent km. CDC, which has been leading the Chicago suburban collocation market for more than a decade, has, with the present plan, demonstrated its commitment to improve its network to incorporate the changing customer requirements.
