Ciena Intros Management Suite

LINTHICUM, MD -- CIENA Corporation today announced the launch of its LightWorks ON-Center Management Suite, a new fully integrated family of software-based tools for comprehensive element, network and service layer management across service provider networks. ON-Center is designed to enable accelerated deployment of new, differentiating optical services, reduced network operating and management costs, and innovative customer service solutions.

Designed for service providers to select any or all components to meet their management needs, LightWorks ON-Center is comprised of an Optical Service Layer Management System for cross-vendor end-to-end service management, an Optical Network Management System for integrated management across all of CIENA's intelligent optical transport, switching and access systems, and a Modeling and Planning System for network design - all delivered as a single platform.

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