Ciena Brings 100G to Houston

Phonoscope provides a wide variety of networking solutions, including Ethernet and optical transport services to business, government, education and residential service provider customers across seven counties. In business since 1953, the company has a strong heritage as a technology leader, and holds the first and largest privately-owned optical Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) in the U.S.

As part of a network expansion, Phonoscope will deploy Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, to build a new, high-capacity optical network that connects 25 fault tolerant, multi-gigabit Ethernet rings. The enhanced network will enable Phonoscope to provide optical transport services with the ability to scale to 40G/100G with the addition of Ciena WaveLogic™ coherent optical line cards to meet customer needs in the future.

Phonoscope will also deploy Ciena’s 5410 and 5150 Service Aggregation Switches, and 3930 and 3931 Service Delivery Switches, all part of Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Solutions (CES) portfolio, to provide a reliable, high-capacity, transport-class packet network.

Ciena Corp. (NYSE: CIEN)