In today’s web-scale world, where more and more applications reside in the cloud, businesses need the assurance that their data is secure not only at rest but also in-flight. An industry first and backed by Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) industry-leading coherent optics, the WaveLogic Encryption solution offers new optical-layer encryption capabilities to match high capacity infrastructure needs – from 10G to 100G, 200G and beyond, from metro to ultra-long haul distances – providing a simple-to-implement, always-on, data encryption solution.
Key Facts:
- A range of security solutions exist today to protect data at-rest. However, high volumes of critical data are continuously in-flight, traveling beyond the walls of the data center and across large networks. Additionally, an increasing number of government mandated regulations for data protection have made securing in-flight data a higher priority in networks. With Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution, data can now be secured as it leaves the private cloud and protected as it traverses across the network, across any distance, without sacrificing the end user experience.
- Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution addresses all infrastructure needs and provides added network security for service providers and large enterprises, such as financial service firms, healthcare and government organizations. The solution is FIPS-certified and meets the highest security standards recognized globally in the industry. Powered by Ciena’s WaveLogic 3 Extreme chipset, the solution provides software programmable modulation to enable both 100G encryption with QPSK modulation and 200G encryption with 16QAM modulation – an industry first.
- WaveLogic Encryption is simple to deploy and protocol agnostic, meaning it simultaneously encrypts any traffic type coming into the network, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, OTN, IP, SONET, and SDH. It encrypts the entire wavelength before the data leaves the building or data center, and transports it transparently with virtually no added latency, making efficient use of network resources and maintaining quality of end-customer experience.
- Additionally, Ciena’s software-based MyCryptoTool features a dedicated management user portal that provides full control to the end enterprise user or security officer to manage all security parameters.
- The solution will be generally available in the first calendar quarter of 2016.
Executive Comments:
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“High profile security breaches are commonplace in the news today.
Service providers tell Heavy Reading repeatedly that security risks
are the number one concern when they talk to their enterprise
customers today. These concerns are only rising as more and more data
moves to the cloud. And, while encryption inside the data center or
enterprise campus is well established, service providers are now
realizing that encryption of in-flight data is an important component
of their holistic security strategy. By integrating security functions
directly into its coherent chipsets, Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption
provides protection from breaches for all high capacity links,
something we believe will be well-received by both service providers
and their end customers.”
- Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading
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“In the EU, as with the rest of the world, data security is high on
the agenda. New regulations and legislation are coinciding with
expanding bandwidth needs, making it vital that we support our
customers with solutions that provide additional security measures by
encrypting data in-flight. As Ciena’s encryption solution helps to
ensure the best possible safeguards with no impact on service or
latency we are already seeing take-up of these new capabilities, in
fact we are currently deploying the 200G encryption solution for a
customer in the Dutch finance sector.”
- Geert Degezelle, Managing Director, Telindus
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“We are proud to offer a world-class network experience to our
customers. As part of that commitment, we are constantly exploring new
ways to secure our network and protect our end customers’ data – not
only at the application layer, but also at the network
layer. Following our successful 200G Encryption network trial with
Ericsson and Ciena, and with the ability to now implement WaveLogic
Encryption, a FIPS-certified solution, across our network, customers
can be assured they are receiving best-in-class connectivity and
service.”
- David Robertson, Director, Transport and Routing Engineering, Telstra
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“Safeguarding critical data has become a major priority in today’s
web-scale world. Previous infrastructure solutions have been
cumbersome to manage and burdened by separate boxes, impacting
throughput and latency. Our new WaveLogic Encryption solution is
simple to deploy and provides a strong and effective defense with an
additional level of protection to enable end-to-end security.”
- Francois Locoh-Donou, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Ciena
Events:
- On Tuesday, January 26 at 11 a.m. ET, Ciena will host a webinar, “Don’t Let Your Network Be a Security Leak.” The webinar will feature Sterling Perrin, Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading with Ciena’s Patrick Scully, Director, Product Line Management and Paulina Gomez, Product and Technical Marketing. Click here to register.
Supporting Resources:
- Video: In the Labs with Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption
- Blog: WaveLogic Encryption Brings Effortless In-Flight Data to the Masses
- Infographic: 24/7 Data Security with Optical Encryption
- Application Note: WaveLogic Encryption solution
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is the network specialist. We collaborate with customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. Ciena leverages its deep expertise in packet and optical networking and distributed software automation to deliver solutions in alignment with its OPn architecture for next-generation networks. We enable a high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified, virtualized environment. For updates on Ciena news, follow us on Twitter @Ciena or on LinkedIn. Investors are encouraged to review the Investors section of our website at www.ciena.com/investors, where we routinely post press releases, SEC filings, recent news, financial results, and other announcements. From time to time we exclusively post material information to this website along with other disclosure channels that we use.
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