In just the past few weeks, Ciena’s software portfolio earned several important industry accolades. This level of recognition not only validates the industry’s move toward intelligent automation, it proves that Ciena’s Blue Planet software is the winning platform to drive that shift.

In taking home six top honors, we’re proud to be fueling networks that are more agile and programmable – arming customers with the network automation to self-monitor and self-manage for optimal efficiency and performance.

Our Blue Planet honors and recognitions include:

Three Metro Ethernet Forum 2017 Awards, which recognize emerging dynamic network services, powered by Lifecycle Orchestration (LSO), NFV, SDN, and Carrier Ethernet.

  • : Presented to Ciena for our Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration ()
  • : Presented to Ciena for our Blue Planet
  • Third Network Proof of Concept Gold Award: Presented to Ciena, AT&T, Colt, Orange, Fujitsu and Amdocs for our joint proof of concept (PoC) showing the delivery of on-demand, MEF 3.0, enterprise and cloud services across a global virtualized multi-layer, multi-vendor, multi-provider network. Read more details about this PoC demo here.

Two Telecom Asia Reader’s Choice & Innovation , which were voted on by the magazine’s subscriber base of telecom professionals across Asia.

  • SDN Innovation of the Year: Presented to Ciena for our Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP)
  • Analytics Innovation of the Year: Presented to Ciena for our Blue Planet

BTR 2017 Diamond Technology Review Award, which recognizes innovation in technology for the broadband cable industry and is voted on by a panel of independent industry judges.

  • : Presented to Ciena for our Distributed-NFV (D-NFV) solution

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