Case Study: Leading Multinational Telecommunications Company achieves scalable, lower-cost network operations with Ciena Ethernet solutions

Preparing For The High-Bandwidth Future With Ciena Ethernet Solutions

One of Europe’s leading multinational telecommunications companies turned to **Ciena** to address rapid 30% year-on-year traffic growth, rising operating costs, and the complexity of managing multiple disparate legacy aggregation networks created through acquisitions. The operator needed a standardized, scalable Ethernet architecture to support high-bandwidth services while simplifying network operations and reducing cost.

**Ciena** implemented a repeatable Ethernet aggregation solution built around the **8700 Packetwave Platform**, **5160/5170 Service Aggregation Switches**, and **Blue Planet MCP** management. The new architecture replaced numerous routers and legacy switches, is being rolled out across 12 regions, and has already been deployed in six; it reduces complexity, supports scaling to 100G and beyond, lowers equipment, real-estate, power, cooling, and maintenance costs, and gives the customer a flexible foundation for future services and fiber-deep network expansion.