PIER Group & Ciena
Working together to empower the Research & Education community through collaborative, innovative and high-performance networking technologies and solutions.
PIER Group and Ciena work together to help institutions design and deploy advanced network infrastructure that supports data-intensive research, collaboration, and campus connectivity. By combining Ciena’s networking technologies with PIER Group’s expertise in higher education environments, institutions can build reliable, scalable networks that enable innovation and discovery.
Modern research and education networks must support growing demands for bandwidth, performance, and collaboration. PIER Group and Ciena deliver high-capacity, intelligent networking solutions that provide the visibility, scalability, and reliability institutions need to support next-generation applications and research workloads.
Ciena delivers advanced optical networking, routing, and automation technologies that provide high-capacity connectivity, improved network visibility, and flexible infrastructure to support the next generation of research and collaboration.
The ability to efficiently visualize, manage, and control the network is paramount to guaranteeing that research and education providers will deliver the connectivity their community needs when needed. The Ciena multi-layer domain controller, MCP, is the perfect tool for simplifying operations and creating a reliable, stable, and predictable network.
Ciena’s close collaboration with the research and education community is instrumental in selecting our technologies that align with their needs, while enabling different instructions to interconnect their network seamlessly.
As innovation is at the center of a research and education institution’s mission, having a partner ready to deliver the latest in coherent optics, routing and switching, automation, and IP/Optical convergence that is also in deep collaboration with the community is essential. Ciena also supports openness, allowing the operators to integrate with their existing infrastructure and in-house solutions.
From artificial intelligence applications to quantum computing and climate modeling, research and education networks always need more capacity. As the global leader in coherent optical technology, Ciena is the perfect partner to deliver the scalability the community needs.
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Learn More About PIER Group and Ciena
IP Delivered Differently – Automated, open, lean.
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Coherent Routing: A rapid evolution to IP/Optical convergence
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Strength Through Partnership: PIER Group and Ciena
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IP Delivered Differently – Automated, open, lean.
Further Reading
Coherent Routing: A rapid evolution to IP/Optical convergence
Further Reading
Strength Through Partnership: PIER Group and Ciena
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White Papers
Ciena White Papers
Data Center Interconnect
Point-to-point dark fiber solution for dozens of clients running many hundreds of gigabits for sciences, imaging, human genome sequencing, virtual reality, and more.
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High-Capacity Edge Interconnect
Distributed metropolitan campus with multiple 10/100GE client mesh interconnectivity and a variety of protected and unprotected services.
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Optical Transport
Extensive regional to long-haul transport for state-wide university with widely distributed education facilities, requiring large amounts of inter-facility bandwidth. Dark fiber spans are a patchwork for independent providers.
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Campus Network
Scalable and flexible smart campus network, supporting high-speed intrabuilding connectivity, data center interconnection, broadband-services and more.
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