CIENA to Provide Optical Solutions in the Global Crossing Network.Business Editors LINTHICUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2000 CIENA Corporation Ciena Corporation NASDAQ: CIEN develops and markets communications network platforms and software, and offers professional services. The Company's broadband access, data and optical networking platforms, software tools, and global network services support worldwide telecom (Nasdaq: CIEN CIEN Ciena Corporation (stock symbol) ) today announced that it will supply intelligent optical transport solutions for the Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GBLX GBLX Global Crossing Ltd. (stock symbol) ) network. Under an existing contract with Racal Telecom, which was acquired by Global Crossing in November, the carrier has purchased CIENA MultiWave Sentry(TM) systems for the expansion of its UK network to support regional and international Global Crossing customer traffic. &uot;Our strategy is to significantly accelerate the availability of high-speed data services to corporate customers, and rapid provisioning is essential for meeting our customers' expectations,&uot; said Bob Falconer, director of networks for Global Crossing in the UK. &uot;The software intelligence that CIENA builds into its systems enables us to automatically scale the network and turn-up new routes. To us, that means getting service to customers faster than ever.&uot; Proprietary SmartSpan(TM) software embedded in each of CIENA's optical transport systems automates span provisioning and management for real-time bandwidth delivery. CIENA's optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. intelligence enables carriers such as Global Crossing to speed their time-to-market for valuable data services while dramatically pushing down network operations costs. &uot;With our philosophy of providing customers with increments of capacity on demand, we believe that a faster response time is required to satisfy growth in network traffic, and CIENA's solutions help us meet this challenge,&uot; Falconer said. &uot;Making further network enhancements with CIENA solutions is the latest move in Global Crossing's drive to become the worldwide leader in data, voice, Internet and e-commerce services,&uot; said Patrick Nettles net·tle n. 1. Any of numerous plants of the genus Urtica, having toothed leaves, unisexual apetalous flowers, and stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact. 2. Any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants. , CIENA's president and chief executive officer. &uot;We're pleased that CIENA is a part of that strategy. The value that we bring to the network will be measured not only in capital and operations savings, but also in helping Global Crossing maximize its opportunities within the vast market for data services.&uot; With CIENA LightWorks(TM), a next-generation intelligent network architecture, CIENA is giving a competitive edge to carriers around the world by helping them transition from complex legacy networks, thereby significantly reducing future network operations costs. LightWorks extends integrated capabilities in optical transport, core switching and multi-service access technologies through embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. intelligence across the optical network. ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX) is building and offering services over the world's first global fiber optic network with 97,200 announced route miles The number of miles that are spanned by a telecommunications network. It does not include combined wire mileage due to multiple wires or fibers within a single cable or by overlapping segments, just the total geographic distance between cities or other terminal points. , serving five continents, 24 countries and more than 200 major cities. The Global Crossing Network and its telecommunications and Internet product offerings will be available to over 80% of the world's international communications traffic. Global Crossing hosts more than 300 of the top Internet brands at its web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. division, GlobalCenter. Among the brands are some of the largest and most densely trafficked sites on the Web, including Yahoo!, The Motley Fool, Ziff Davis Ziff Davis Inc. (ZD) is an American magazine publisher and Internet Information company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, , MP3.com and eToys. Global Crossing's operations are headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, with principal offices in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , California; London, England; Morristown, New Jersey Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 18,544. Its estimated population in 2004 was 18,842. It is the county seat of Morris CountyGR6. ; and Rochester, New York This article is about the city of Rochester in Monroe County. For the town in Ulster County, see Rochester, Ulster County, New York. Rochester, once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City or . ABOUT CIENA CIENA Corporation's market-leading optical networking systems form the core for the new era of telecommunications networks worldwide. CIENA's LightWorks(TM) architecture changes the fundamental economics of service-provider networks by simplifying the network and reducing the cost to operate it. Additional information about CIENA can be found at http://www.ciena.com. NOTE TO INVESTORS Forward-looking statements in this release, including, but not limited to, the cost, deployment and network management benefits of the Company's products, are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in such forward-looking statements, due to risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, which include the risk factors disclosed in the Company's Report on Form 10K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 10, 1999. |
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