AT&T Deploys Ciena's MultiWave Metro Intelligent Optical Transport System - Brief Article

Fiber Optics Business, July 15, 2001

Ciena Corp., a global provider of intelligent optical networking systems and software, announced that AT&T has successfully tested, certified, and begun deployment of Ciena's MultiWave Metro intelligent optical transport system.

AT&T provides competitive local services to business customers in 71 major markets nationwide and plans to deploy Ciena's Multi Wave Metro platform in a number of those networks to provide up to 24 wavelengths of protected OC-48 or OC-192 capacity per fiber. AT&T already is carrying live customer traffic using Ciena systems in its Los Angeles metro network.

Multi Wave Metro is a system for high-capacity (up to 10 Gbps) optical service transport and protection in metropolitan networks. The Metro platform supports multiple topologies, protocols, and protection arrangements on the same fiber pair and in the same network node.

Its open, standards-based architecture allows it to interface easily with all types of SONET/SDH, ATM, and Fast IP equipment and is designed to be an ideal platform for providing ESCON, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet and rate-adaptive Gigabit Ethernet, FICON, and digital video services.