Telecom Lead America: XO Communications will use Ciena’s Digital Video Transport solution to offer native digital video transport services to media and entertainment customers.
Ciena’s solution will allow XO Communications to cost-effectively transport high-definition (HD) video content for its customers without affecting original quality.
XO Communications is employing Ciena’s Digital Video Transport Platform to deliver flexible service that will allow broadcasters, content producers, and other media and entertainment customers to cost-effectively transport real-time, uncompressed video across the XO nationwide 100 Gbps network.
Ciena’s Digital Video Transport solution includes the 565 Advanced Services Platform, a compact and cost-optimized metro WDM platform that enables a variety of data, storage and video services to be cost-efficiently aggregated onto an optical wavelength-based network or service.
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XO Communications utilizes Ciena platforms across its network to provide Ethernet, storage and managed services applications with low latency, as well as 100G managed wavelength services to its large enterprise and wholesale service provider customers.
Don MacNeil, chief marketing officer, XO Communications, said: “With the rising adoption of HD video, the connectivity needs of the media and entertainment companies have grown exponentially, and as a result video must be delivered faster and more efficiently while maintaining the highest quality possible.”
“Our coast-to-coast 100 Gbps nationwide network coupled with Ciena’s Digital Video Transport solution allows us to deliver uncompressed digital video in its native format at extremely high speeds and helps the media and entertainment industry more efficiently transport and manage video content while helping keep costs down,” MacNeil added.
Meanwhile, at the NAB Show 2013, Ciena will show how its Packet Optical transport portfolio can help broadcasters and content producers address their overall network transport. As part of the demonstration, Ciena will transport uncompressed video over 10G and 40G networks combined with Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) connectivity for a combined workflow environment.
