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TIA salutes one of its longtime members, Ciena Corporation!

Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), a long-time member of TIA, is a global leader in communication network platforms, software and professional services. With industry-leading functionality and performance, Ciena’s offerings form the foundation for many of the largest, most reliable and sophisticated service provider, enterprise and government networks across the globe.

Ciena Corporation spoke with TIA staff about its FlexSelect Architecture.

Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture is the aggregation of strategic technologies that, when integrated, create a software-defined, service-selectable network for automated delivery of any mix of high-performance packet services, like Ethernet and IP, as well as traditional circuit-based services—all side by side. FlexSelect combines remotely-programmable hardware, standards-based control plane technology and service-oriented management functionality to allow customers to transition their existing networks—at a pace that directly aligns with their revenue opportunities—into a flexible delivery platform for converged SONET/SDH, IP/Ethernet, storage and video services with premium performance metrics.

FlexSelect Architecture brings to Ethernet a proven approach to transitioning to next-generation converged networks. With its flexibility, adaptability, manageability and assuredness, it finally makes Ethernet a viable—not just economical—performance-grade convergence infrastructure. By integrating multiservice Ethernet/MPLS packet functionality with OTN-based transport and other innovations, Ciena’s FlexSelect Architecture helps network operators increase provisioning speed and accuracy and reach more end-users with Ethernet, while continuing support for traditional services.

FlexSelect Architecture encompasses the following three key elements:

FlexSelect Hardware
OTN, Ethernet, WDM and FlexiPort programmable interfaces integrated across platforms that maximize network flexibility and support future services with the ease of a software download.

FlexSelect OS
A standards-based, network-wide control plane that automates processes and yields operational efficiencies and fewer errors, while enabling real-time network adaptability.

FlexSelect Management
New value-added performance metrics with service-level manageability that gives packet-based services the same control and performance as circuit-based services.

At its core, Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture is specifically designed to enable the flexibility, adaptability and manageability necessary to deliver any premium end-user service while protecting existing network investments and reducing operational costs.

For more information about Cinea's FlexSelect Architecture, go to http://www.ciena.com/products/flexselect.htm.

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