One such customer benefiting from IFN’s network is Community Health Network, one of Central Indiana’s two largest health care providers. With Ciena, IFN connected Community Howard Regional Health and Community’s affiliated Kokomo area physicians’ sites. Community Health Network relies on its own private Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) ring to connect its main Indianapolis area campuses. IFN currently provides connectivity to 24 remote locations into CHN data centers.

Architected for network modernization projects like IFN’s, Ciena’s 5400 and 6500 converged packet optical platforms, equipped with WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors and integrated switching capabilities, will help IFN address increased bandwidth demands with the highest levels of quality and survivability. Ciena’s Flexible Grid Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) technology simplifies operations and provides greater network flexibility by enabling new wavelengths to be remotely added or dropped, which allows IFN to easily turn up new services as needed.

IFN’s flexible network expansion, an example of Ciena’s OPn network architecture that enables programmable and scalable network designs, also benefits from Ciena’s 3930 and 3916 Service Delivery Switches, 5142 Service Aggregation Switch and OneControl Unified Management System. Together, these powerful solutions and software capabilities allow IFN to automate provisioning and streamline network management for faster service turn-up while supporting mesh restoration, which offers greater resiliency and service availability.

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