Slovenians Deploy Ciena

LINTHICUM, Md. -- Ciena(r) Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that HSE&DEM, the Republic of Slovenia's largest producer of electricity, has selected Ciena's next-generation optical multiservice switches, optical multiplexers, storage extension platforms and network management systems to interconnect its locations nationwide with a reliable, high-performance Adaptive WAN(tm) (wide area network) to deliver IT services used in the production and delivery of electrical energy to customers.

After a competitive review process, HSE&DEM chose Ciena's CN 3620(tm) Intelligent Optical Multiservice Switch, CN 2100(tm) Passive Optical Multiplexer, CN 2000(tm) Storage Extension Platform, ON-Center(tm) 3600 Management System and ON-Center CN 2000 Manager because of their superior reliability and support for next-generation SDH transport, DWDM optical transport and storage extension capabilities. The production and delivery of electricity to the market is a mission-critical, multi-step process that is monitored and controlled by a variety of IT applications, so the performance and availability of utility telecommunications networks and services are critical.

Based on its network requirements, including support for TDM, Ethernet and storage extension services, carrier-grade reliability and the flexibility to add capacity and support new services over time, HSE&DEM recognized Ciena's Adaptive WAN as the superior solution for its demanding utility telecommunications networking environment.

Smart Com, a provider of integrated communications and IT management services headquartered in Slovenia, is working closely with Ciena to complete installation and testing of HSE&DEM's next-generation network. Smart Com is a certified reseller of Ciena solutions, offering system implementation as well as high-quality engineering services.

"As Slovenia's largest producer of electricity, our customers count on us so we need to count on our network. It is critical that our network infrastructure ensures the highest reliability and service quality to support the production and delivery of electricity to our energy customers," said Ladislav Tomsic, Technical Director and Member of the HSE Board of Directors. "After a careful competitive evaluation, Ciena stood out as providing the best all-around solutions, meeting our requirements for reliability, scalability, performance and next-generation capabilities to deliver future services as needed."

Ciena Corp.