Ciena Drives Business Growth with CenturyLink Colocation Services and MPLS Networking
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- CenturyLink Colocation Services
- CenturyLink MPLS Networking
技术栈
- Cloud Architecture
- Software Defined Networking
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
适用行业
- 电信
适用功能
- 商业运营
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Ciena is a strategic networking technology provider that helps its customers use a wide variety of solutions to leverage their network as a strategic asset for their business. As cloud architecture spreads throughout the business world, software defined networking has become a strategic approach to serving network resources on an on-demand basis. That demand might be triggered by mobile app users or calls from application programming interfaces (API) within the cloud. Ciena helps their customers maximize efficiencies and opportunities to deliver services within that flexible network environment. The company is highly focused on networking technology and it is a beneficiary of the rapid evolution of cloud architecture and software defined networking.
挑战
Ciena, a fast-growing networking technology provider, was looking to grow its IT services and deliver new capabilities to support business growth, while managing cost. The company was predominantly operating an internally focused model, which added its own levels of complexity in terms of patching, support, and maintaining large environments. As the company grew, it started to stretch the infrastructure requirements of the IT organization. The IT goals involved cost management, flexibility, and reliability. Predictability in cost and performance were two of the needs identified as critical to support the next wave of growth and business planning. The managed services model offered an opportunity to lock these in as part of service level agreements (SLA).
解决方案
Ciena moved its IT operations into a CenturyLink colocation data center leveraging CenturyLink’s deep expertise in data center management, allowing Ciena to focus on its critical applications and driving its business. CenturyLink Consulting performed a critical assessment ahead of the move. All technical and business continuity issues were identified and addressed before anything was unplugged. Because CenturyLink provided an assessment ahead of the migration, the move went smoothly and the data center was reconstructed quickly with no disruption in services. The colocation arrangement now gives Ciena a new production environment for its network services. CenturyLink personnel also work hands-on to tune the hardware and software so that Ciena gets the most out of the relationship.
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