CIENA, which completed its acquisition of WaveSmith Networks earlier this week, announced the availability of integrated optical and data network management with its LightWorks ON-Center Management Suite, extending CIENA's point-and-click service provisioning and other management functions into the data layer. CIENA's ON-Center software now provides management of the Distributed Node (DN) multiservice switches from WaveSmith, as well as multiservice core switches from Equipe Communications. The integration enables end-to-end service provisioning, diagnostics and management across optical and data layers using a single Operations Support System (OSS). CIENA believes its LightWorks Services approach for integrating the two network layers will allow carriers to increase their gross margins in some cases by more than ten points.
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- CIENA sells and supports Equipe Communications' Equipe 3200 ATM/MPLS multiservice core switch as part of an alliance announced in June 2002.
