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Fast. Precise. Virtualized.
Steve Alexander – CTO
Rick Dodd – SVP, Global Marketing
Tom Mock – SVP, Corporate Marketing and Communications
May 16, 2012
Control Plane
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Notes to Investors
We will not be discussing company-specific financial information, expectations, or
economic conditions.
Information presented and related comments of presenters may contain forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Ciena‟s
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“intend,” “may,” “should,” “will,” and “would” or similar words.
These forward looking statements, based on information, expectations, prospects,
forecasts and assumptions available to Ciena as of the date of this event, involve
inherent risk. Ciena‟s actual results could differ materially from those stated, forecasted
or implied, due to a number of risks and uncertainties associated with Ciena‟s business,
operations and markets, including those risk factors disclosed in Ciena‟s Form 10-Q filed
with the SEC on March 8, 2012.
Ciena assumes no obligation to update the information presented today, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Control Plane Context
Planning
NMS
Auto-Restore
Traffic
Planning
NMS
Initiated
Planning
NMS
Planning
NMS
Initiated
Planned Maintenance
Migrated
Traffic
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Why Control Plane Now?
Control Plane and Automation:
2nd most important feature when evaluating new vendors* *Global Service Providers Identify Optical Equipment Leaders, Infonetics Research, Inc. 2011
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5410
Using the Control Plane to Connect the Portfolio
6500 series 5400 series End-to-End Control
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5410
Facilitating new functionality and services
FastMesh O-VPN
OTN Control Plane
Intelligent Tail
Multi-Vendor Interop
SONET/SDH Control Plane
Photonic Control Plane
Future App 1
Latency Optimization
6500 series 5400 series End-to-End Control
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Fastest at Scale:
Higher Availability & Customer Satisfaction
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Precision Control:
Differentiated SLAs & Rich Policy Options
Protection & restoration options
Service priorities
Reversion options and timers
Route diversity
Switches, links/link groups, circuits
Latency discovery and latency-aware routing
40G 100G
1T 10G
50Mb
None
1+1 Mesh
MR-SNCP
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End-to-end service awareness and policy
enforcement…
…without repetitive manual configurations
Core
Metro A
Metro B
Single I-NNI
(1,000+
NEs) Intelligent
Tails
(10,000
NEs)
Access &
Aggregation Subsea
New Virtualization Model:
Efficiency and Scale for Operations
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New Virtualization Model:
Efficiency and Scale for Operations
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…and don’t forget the standards
Control plane apps built on
top of standard protocols…
ASON
GMPLS
ITU-T G.7713.1
…showcased in multi-
vendor interop forums
Since 2005
Most recently at OFC 2012
North America Europe Asia
Alcatel-Lucent EXFO
Metaswitch Tellabs
ADVA Alcatel-Lucent
EXFO Huawei Marben
Huawei Tellabs
EXFO Marben
March „12: OIF E-NNI 2.0 Interop