Case Study: Leading Telecom Provider reduces risk and OPEX with Ciena

Leading Telecom Service Provider Asks Ciena to Consolidate and Transform Its Costly, Fragmented, Legacy Network

Leading Telecom Provider partnered with Ciena to tackle a costly, fragmented legacy long-haul DWDM network built across multiple vendors and acquired systems. With rising OPEX, aging equipment nearing end of life, incomplete inventory data, and too few in-house experts to manage thousands of circuit migrations, the customer needed help accelerating its move to a next-generation network while reducing risk and preserving profitability.

Ciena’s Consulting and Implementation Services teams used its proven network transformation methodology to discover and map the legacy network, build a master database, plan and execute migrations, and decommission legacy elements with minimal service impact. The result was a more future-proof, energy-efficient network with lower maintenance, power, space, and cooling costs, simplified management, reduced downtime risk, and improved visibility for future upgrades.