Ciena sells its Adaptive WAN to Slovenia utility

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Oct 2005

The Republic of Slovenia's largest producer of electricity, HSE&DEM, has selected optical multiservice switches, optical multiplexers, storage extension platforms and network management systems from Ciena Corp. to interconnect its locations nationwide with an Adaptive WAN to deliver IT services used in the production and delivery of electrical energy to customers.

Ciena Corp. (ciena.com), a Linthicum, Md.-based network company was selected by Holding Slovenske elektrarne (HSE), Slovenia's largest supplier of electricity, and Dravske elektrarne Maribor (DEM), governing eight hydropower plants under HSE, after a competitive review process. HSE&DEM chose Ciena's CN 3620 Intelligent Optical Multiservice Switch, CN 2100 Passive Optical Multiplexer, CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform, ON-Center 3600 Management System and ON-Center CN 2000 Manager for support of next-generation SDH transport, DWDM optical transport and storage extension capabilities.

The production and delivery of electricity to the market is a mission-critical, multi-step process that is monitored and controlled by a variety of IT applications, so the performance and availability of utility telecommunications networks and services are critical.

Smart Com (smart-com.si), a provider of integrated communications and IT management services with headquarters in Slovenia, is working with Ciena to complete installation and testing of HSE&DEM's network. Smart Com is a certified reseller of Ciena solutions.

Leveraging more than 12 years of engineering Layer 1 and Layer 2 networking platforms for the carrier marketplace, Ciena brings carrier-class expertise to the demanding utility environment with its Adaptive WAN solution, a wide-area network that optimizes and switches traffic at the lowest possible layer providing maximum throughput, low latency and applications transparency. As a network that is always available, never drops packets and delivers deterministic response, the Adaptive WAN moves utilities beyond overlapping, single-application networks to a unified, scalable and high-performance network that supports time-sensitive, mission-critical business processes.