By Telecom Lead Team: Ciena announced that UNET, a Dutch
information and communications services provider, has selected Ciena Carrier
Ethernet Solutions (CES) for expanding and upgrading its metro and access
network.
Ciena will work with Telindus-ISIT, a provider of
network-based solutions, to offer UNET a solution for rolling out scalable,
cost-effective service provider services and expand its geographical reach in
the Netherlands.
The upgrade will allow additional customer growth for
UNET and support its position as an alternative to traditional telecoms service
providers.
Service providers and enterprises in the Netherlands
rely on reliable and cost-effective connectivity services to succeed. Ciena’s
Carrier Ethernet Solutions offer UNET the tools needed to support the ambitions
of its growing customer base, including a low-touch approach for quickly
delivering new services and guaranteed service quality agreements,” Ger Bakker
MsEE, CTO, UNET.
UNET network uses Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet solutions,
including the 5305 Service Aggregation Switch and 3960 Service Delivery Switch,
providing sub-50 ms protection and recovery switching. This approach will
support UNET’s current enterprise services, adding scalability to the network
and significantly accelerating and automating service creation and activation.
Ciena and Telindus-ISIT have worked together to provide
UNET with a transport-class packet networking solution that offers a CAPEX and
OPEX reduction versus traditional architectures and addresses the scaling
limitations of UNET’s existing network infrastructure while protecting past
investments.
Our Carrier Ethernet architecture will enable UNET to
transition to a service-centric network and achieve new levels of capacity,
differentiation, operational scalability, and reliability with its business
services. UNET can now optimise all aspects of the service lifecycle,
accelerate time to revenue, and increase profitability and competitiveness,”
Peter Newcombe, vice president of sales, Northern and Eastern Europe, Ciena.
