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Ciena® Corporation
(NASDAQ:CIEND*), the network specialist, today announced research
collaboration with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to automate
configuration and provisioning of lightpaths in support of grid
computing applications. The university has purchased Ciena’s
CoreDirector® CI
Multiservice Switch and CN 4200™
FlexSelect™ Advanced
Services Platform, which are being utilized in the creation of software
for development and integration of User Controlled Lightpath
Provisioning (UCLP) code. This UCLP code will then be available for
deployment in optical networks throughout the nation’s
research and scientific computing facilities for automated provisioning
of IP lightpaths.
The partnership builds on Ciena’s
longstanding relationship with the U.S. federal government and research
and education institutions worldwide. Ciena’s
expertise has been leveraged in multiple capacities, including
participation in the U.S. Department of Defense GIG-BE project, site
deployments in the U.S. Department of Energy’s
Ultra Science Network led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and its
enablement of a connection between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
and the StarLight facility on the Chicago campus of Northwestern
University.
Historically known as a routing and switching laboratory, the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville is evolving as a top-flight optical networking
test bed. Through its collaboration with Ciena, the lab is making
strides to contribute to a de facto solution for optical control plane
lightpath provisioning, which would allow groups of research colleagues
to create their own application-specific IP networks optimized for
specific grid application needs. This allows them to reconfigure their
own networks with automation that virtually eliminates the involvement
of an optical network operator. The university is also working on UCLP
extensions to O-UNI, ASON, and GMPLS signaling and control plane
technologies.
Supporting both TDM and Layer 2 Ethernet switching, Ciena’s
CoreDirector provides fast, dynamic provisioning and optimized bandwidth
management for research network traffic. Ciena’s
CN 4200 is the flagship product of Ciena’s
FlexSelect Architecture, a standards-based, service-oriented approach to
building next-generation network infrastructures. The CN 4200 delivers
the industry's first universal line card with individual
user-programmable ports, providing transport for any protocol at any
speed on any available port. Together, the CoreDirector and CN 4200
platforms provide the University of Tennessee a multiservice
aggregation, switching and DWDM transport solution capable of on-demand
support for multiple service types over bandwidth that can be
provisioned to fit network requirements.
“Through our experience with other
high-profile research facilities and our leadership in optical control
plane technology and automation, Ciena has proven a strong commitment to
and aptitude for providing high-performance solutions for some of the
largest computing applications in existence,”
said Steve Alexander, chief technology officer for Ciena. “Our
collaboration with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville toward
establishing a standard for optical control plane lightpath provisioning
reinforces our position with this key group of innovators, and helps
further our involvement with the growing research and education
community nationwide.”
“In creating UCLP software that can be used
by all research facilities for high-bandwidth applications, we are
empowering networked scientific computing efforts on a widely
distributed scale,” said John Lankford,
senior infrastructure architect at the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville. “In Ciena, we have an ideal
partner for this environment not only because of its long-standing
experience in the research and education community but also thanks to
its platforms’ flexibility, dynamic
reconfigurability and automated management –
all characteristics we’re trying to bring to
optical control plane research with this protocol.”
By supporting dynamic provisioning of high-bandwidth connectivity, Ciena’s
platforms enable computing-intensive research between geographically
separate locations for supercomputing applications, cluster processing
and transfers of large data sets, some in excess of one terabyte. For
additional information on Ciena’s government
solutions and support in the research and education community, please
visit http://www.ciena.com/government.
*Effective as of 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 22, 2006, Ciena
completed a one-for-seven reverse split of Ciena common stock. Ciena’s
common stock began trading on a split-adjusted basis when the market
opened on Monday, September 25, 2006. For a period of approximately 20
days, NASDAQ will append a “D”
to Ciena’s stock symbol in order to inform
the investment community of the reverse stock split.
ABOUT CIENA
Ciena Corporation is the network specialist, focused on expanding the
possibilities for its customers’ networks
while reducing their cost of ownership. The Company’s
systems, software and services target and cure specific network pain
points so that telcos, cable operators, governments and enterprises can
best exploit the new applications that are driving their businesses
forward. For more information, visit www.ciena.com.
NOTE TO INVESTORS
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on
current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and
uncertainties. These statements are based on information available to
the Company as of the date hereof; and Ciena's actual results could
differ materially from those stated or implied, due to risks and
uncertainties associated with its business, which include the risk
factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-Q, which Ciena filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on August 31, 2006. Forward-looking
statements include statements regarding Ciena's expectations, beliefs,
intentions or strategies regarding the future and can be identified by
forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could,"
"estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or
similar words. Ciena assumes no obligation to update the information
included in this press release, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
Ciena(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:CIEND*), the network specialist,
today announced research collaboration with the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville to automate configuration and provisioning of
lightpaths in support of grid computing applications. The university
has purchased Ciena's CoreDirector(R) CI Multiservice Switch and CN
4200(TM) FlexSelect(TM) Advanced Services Platform, which are being
utilized in the creation of software for development and integration
of User Controlled Lightpath Provisioning (UCLP) code. This UCLP code
will then be available for deployment in optical networks throughout
the nation's research and scientific computing facilities for
automated provisioning of IP lightpaths.
The partnership builds on Ciena's longstanding relationship with
the U.S. federal government and research and education institutions
worldwide. Ciena's expertise has been leveraged in multiple
capacities, including participation in the U.S. Department of Defense
GIG-BE project, site deployments in the U.S. Department of Energy's
Ultra Science Network led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and its
enablement of a connection between Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory and the StarLight facility on the Chicago campus of
Northwestern University.
Historically known as a routing and switching laboratory, the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville is evolving as a top-flight
optical networking test bed. Through its collaboration with Ciena, the
lab is making strides to contribute to a de facto solution for optical
control plane lightpath provisioning, which would allow groups of
research colleagues to create their own application-specific IP
networks optimized for specific grid application needs. This allows
them to reconfigure their own networks with automation that virtually
eliminates the involvement of an optical network operator. The
university is also working on UCLP extensions to O-UNI, ASON, and
GMPLS signaling and control plane technologies.
Supporting both TDM and Layer 2 Ethernet switching, Ciena's
CoreDirector provides fast, dynamic provisioning and optimized
bandwidth management for research network traffic. Ciena's CN 4200 is
the flagship product of Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture, a
standards-based, service-oriented approach to building next-generation
network infrastructures. The CN 4200 delivers the industry's first
universal line card with individual user-programmable ports, providing
transport for any protocol at any speed on any available port.
Together, the CoreDirector and CN 4200 platforms provide the
University of Tennessee a multiservice aggregation, switching and DWDM
transport solution capable of on-demand support for multiple service
types over bandwidth that can be provisioned to fit network
requirements.
"Through our experience with other high-profile research
facilities and our leadership in optical control plane technology and
automation, Ciena has proven a strong commitment to and aptitude for
providing high-performance solutions for some of the largest computing
applications in existence," said Steve Alexander, chief technology
officer for Ciena. "Our collaboration with the University of Tennessee
at Knoxville toward establishing a standard for optical control plane
lightpath provisioning reinforces our position with this key group of
innovators, and helps further our involvement with the growing
research and education community nationwide."
"In creating UCLP software that can be used by all research
facilities for high-bandwidth applications, we are empowering
networked scientific computing efforts on a widely distributed scale,"
said John Lankford, senior infrastructure architect at the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville. "In Ciena, we have an ideal partner for
this environment not only because of its long-standing experience in
the research and education community but also thanks to its platforms'
flexibility, dynamic reconfigurability and automated management - all
characteristics we're trying to bring to optical control plane
research with this protocol."
By supporting dynamic provisioning of high-bandwidth connectivity,
Ciena's platforms enable computing-intensive research between
geographically separate locations for supercomputing applications,
cluster processing and transfers of large data sets, some in excess of
one terabyte. For additional information on Ciena's government
solutions and support in the research and education community, please
visit http://www.ciena.com/government.
*Effective as of 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 22, 2006,
Ciena completed a one-for-seven reverse split of Ciena common stock.
Ciena's common stock began trading on a split-adjusted basis when the
market opened on Monday, September 25, 2006. For a period of
approximately 20 days, NASDAQ will append a "D" to Ciena's stock
symbol in order to inform the investment community of the reverse
stock split.
ABOUT CIENA
Ciena Corporation is the network specialist, focused on expanding
the possibilities for its customers' networks while reducing their
cost of ownership. The Company's systems, software and services target
and cure specific network pain points so that telcos, cable operators,
governments and enterprises can best exploit the new applications that
are driving their businesses forward. For more information, visit
www.ciena.com.
NOTE TO INVESTORS
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements
based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve
risks and uncertainties. These statements are based on information
available to the Company as of the date hereof; and Ciena's actual
results could differ materially from those stated or implied, due to
risks and uncertainties associated with its business, which include
the risk factors disclosed in its Report on Form 10-Q, which Ciena
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 31, 2006.
Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Ciena's
expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future
and can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate,"
"believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should,"
"will," and "would" or similar words. Ciena assumes no obligation to
update the information included in this press release, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.