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PIER Group & Ciena

Working together to empower the Research & Education community through collaborative, innovative and high-performance networking technologies and solutions.

Ciena is committed to delivering the best networking technology and fostering innovation and collaboration in the research and education community.

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.

Ciena provides market-leading coherent optical technology for great scalability, multi-layer domain controllers for complete network visibility, and a highly flexible routing and switching portfolio for interoperability and convergence to support the next generation of research.

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PIER Group and Ciena White Papers

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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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Empowering companies to handle today’s complexity and tomorrow’s unexpected opportunities. Partner with us for innovative solutions to achieve your network and business potential. #1 Optical Network. Leader in Innovation. Simplify Your Network.

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Customer Support: 812-650-7437