KPN EuroRings chooses Ciena's Online Metro platform to provide high-value services to pan European customers

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, June 20, 2003

Ciena announced that the KPN EuroRings unit of KPN, the Netherlands' largest telecom service provider, has deployed Ciena's Online Metro platform in its network. The platform allows KPN EuroRings to offer higher value data services, such as Storage Area Networking (SAN), ESCON, Fibre Channel, wavelength services and Gigabit Ethernet, to its expanding European customer base.

Consolidating its existing infrastructure with Ciena's Online Metro solution will create greater capacity, flexibility and increased service capability in a single network. KPN EuroRings customers, including carriers and internet service providers (ISPs), will benefit from a range of new services including network performance monitoring, automated service provisioning, outstanding SAN protocol transport solutions and protection management. Ciena has discussed extensively during the past several quarters that adding the world's largest incumbent carriers as customers is the centerpiece of its corporate plan. Adding KPN's EuroRings unit to a customer base that now includes leading global service providers, such as the UK's BT, Mexico's TELMEX and AT&T, is validation of the company's strategy.