Solution gives EMBARQ greater bandwidth and service flexibility to meet customers’ growing communications needs

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that Embarq Corporation (NYSE: EQ), has selected the CN 4200^® FlexSelect^™ Advanced Services Platform for deployment throughout its network. The solution will support the aggregation and transport of a variety of residential and business services.

EMBARQ selected Ciena’s CN 4200 for its ability to dynamically increase bandwidth to handle growing capacity demands. For example, with CN 4200, EMBARQ can theoretically carry the entire collection of books in the Library of Congress – or the equivalent of more than three billion voice calls at 64 Kbps each – in approximately eight minutes across a single fiber.^* In addition, the platform is capable of carrying multiple types of voice, video and data traffic, eliminating the need for additional equipment.

“Our customers are demanding new bandwidth-intensive products for their communications needs, and EMBARQ is committed to providing a network able to effectively meet those demands,” said Jim Hansen, senior vice president, Network Services at EMBARQ. “Our promise to customers is to offer practical, innovative solutions for their communications needs. This deployment gives us the added bandwidth we need to fulfill that promise within our current capital program.”

EMBARQ is installing the Ciena CN 4200 platform across its service territories. Currently, more than 100 nodes have been deployed.

“Customers like EMBARQ are making it clear that network and service flexibility is crucial in successfully implementing profitable convergence strategies,” said Mike Aquino, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Ciena.