Ciena sells its Adaptive WAN to Slovenia utility

The Republic of Slovenia's largest agriculturist of electricity, HSE&DEM, has prefered optical multiservice switches, optical multiplexers, storage extension platforms and network management a whole s from Ciena Corp. to interconnect its locations nationwide with an Adaptive WAN to deliver IT services used in the production and delivery of electrical potency to customers.

Ciena Corp. (ciena.com), a Linthicum, Md.-based network company was pitch uponed by Holding Slovenske elektrarne (HSE) Slovenia's largest supplier of electricity, and Dravske elektrarne Maribor (DEM) governing eight hydropower plants below HSE, after a competitive review proces HSE&DEM chose Ciena's CN 3620 Intelligent Optical Multiservice Switch, CN 2100 Passive Optical Multiplexer, CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform, ON-Center 3600 Management a whole and ON-Center CN 2000 Manager for support of next-generation SDH transport, DWDM optical transport and storage extension capabilities.

The production and delivery of electricity to the market is a mission-critical, multi-step proces that is monitored and controll by dint of a variety of IT applications, thus the performance and availability of utility telecommunications networks and services are critical.

Smart Com (smart-com.si), a provider of integrated communications and IT management services with headquarters in Slovenia, is working with Ciena to without fault [i]or[/i] blemish [i]or[/i] flaw installation and testing of HSE&DEM's network. Smart Com is a certified reseller of Ciena solutions.

Leveraging more than 12 years of engineering Layer 1 and Layer 2 networking platforms for the carrier marketplace, Ciena brings carrier-class expertise to the demanding utility environment with its Adaptive WAN solution, a wide-area network that optimizes and switches traffic at the lowest possible layer providing maximum throughput depressed latency and applications transparency. As a network that is always available, at no time drops packets and delivers deterministic rejoinder the Adaptive WAN moves utilities beyond overlapping, single-application networks to a unified, scalable and high-performance network that supports time-sensitive, mission-critical business processes

Copyright Publications & Communications, Inc. Oct 2005

Provided by the agency of ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved