Ciena Wins Japan Cable Project

LINTHICUM, Md. -- Ciena® Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd. (J:COM), the largest cable service operator in Japan based on the number of customers served, is adopting Ciena’s optical Ethernet platforms for the transport of Video on Demand (VOD) services, specifically for its "J:COM On Demand" digital service offering. The deployment is a result of Ciena’s relationship with its authorized business partner, NETMARKS, Inc., a Japanese network solution provider, and represents Ciena’s first announced customer win with a major international cable operator for video applications.

Ciena’s optical Ethernet solution is providing J:COM the flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing customer needs without rebuilding its network, thereby reducing capital costs. By evolving J:COM’s existing infrastructure to efficiently scale in support of new applications, the Ciena equipment is enabling the cable operator’s VOD roll-out in the Kansai region of Japan, one of the major regions in which J:COM provides its VOD services, including the metropolitan areas around Osaka, Kobe and Wakayama.

“We knew that a critical part of the success of our on-demand services would be ensuring a quality customer experience through a network that could reliably deliver on-demand content and scale capacity to meet spikes in customer orders,” said Mr. Yoshiaki Shirai, vice president, new technology, J:COM. “Ciena brought a unique combination of extensive experience building VOD networks for major cable operators and highly-reliable platforms that are simple to deploy and manage.”

Ciena Corp.