Optical Networking

Access to Core Optical Networking

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Public and private clouds, video streaming, home offices, and emerging 5G services are driving demand for more bandwidth and flexibility from optical networks than ever before. Ribbon tailors its optical networking solutions to fit the business needs of each service provider individually, covering multiservice transport, performance or cost-power optimized transmission, optical encryption, DWDM, CDC-F ROADMs, access-to-core OTN switching, dynamic restoration, and integrated performance monitoring; all under SDN control. Our solutions evolve gracefully and will serve you for many years to come.

Why Ribbon?

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Lowest Cost per Bit

Maximum capacity per wavelength

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Fastest Time to Revenues

Programmable L1 business services

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SDN Domain Control

Advanced automatable lifecycle management

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No Lock-in

Disaggregated systems with open standard interfaces

Disaggregated Optical Networks As You Like It

The trend of disaggregated optical networking systems is picking up steam. Driven by the need to spur innovation and competition, carriers are looking to assemble such optical networks with best-of-breed subsystems with well-defined control interfaces. Ribbon is on board this train with a disaggregated optical line system featuring shared spectrum, programmable high-performance transmission, and OTN switching.

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Reimagining Core Networking

Rapidly Provision High Margin L1 Business Services

Layer 1 transport services – including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and legacy SDH/SONET – are highly profitable offerings that Service Providers sell to Enterprises for connectivity among corporate locations, data centers, and the Internet. However, the access nature of these services has always made it difficult to provision them quickly and economically. Ribbon is now changing the equation with an innovative solution to provision lucrative L1 services rapidly and economically, speeding up time to revenues and increasing customer satisfaction.

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Rapidly Provision High Margin L1 Business Services

No Limits 800G Metro and 400G Long Haul

Ribbon uses the most recent advances in transceiver technologies to deliver both capacity-reach and power-cost optimized optical transport, Our solutions deliver unlimited and unrestricted 800G and 400G optical transport for all metro and long haul applications, respectively.

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Moving Forward with Open Optical Networks