CIENA Corporation Packet Optical Platform Waveserver

Ciena’s Waveserver® stackable interconnect system combines a best-in-class coherent chipset with a data center operations model for cost-effective, web-scale Data Center Interconnect (DCI) applications. Web-scale DCI requires new solutions designed from the ground up to provide high-capacity metro, regional, and long-haul interconnect with a web-scale operations toolset. Waveserver was created to provide a server-like experience for web-scale applications. It provides simple, scalable metro DCI in a rack-and-stack 1RU form-factor (the smallest rack increment). Waveserver is powerful but easy to use. Its design combines two key principles: best-in-class coherent technology and web-scale IT. Waveserver incorporates Ciena’s WaveLogic 3 Extreme coherent optical processors to increase transport capacity and scalability. It addresses the massive bandwidth requirements of DCI while providing power and space efficiency, and its web-scale IT operations model provides easier integration and operations through programmable, open APIs.