Lumen selects Ciena

Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 technology significantly increases network capacity, performance and speed.

  • Wednesday, 26th February 2025 Posted 5 months ago in by Phil Alsop

Lumen Technologies is enhancing its network with Ciena’s coherent optical innovations. This will strengthen Lumen’s ability to deliver highly tailored, scalable connectivity services to major cloud and data center providers striving to keep pace with the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads and associated traffic.

“AI is reshaping industries, and the network is the enabler of this transformation. To meet growing demand, Lumen is executing one of the largest internet expansions ever seen. Ciena will play a key role in helping us build the backbone for the AI economy, giving our customers across the globe the capacity, programmability and capability they need to make the most of the AI era,” Kye Prigg, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Operations, Lumen Technologies.

As Lumen’s preferred optical vendor, Ciena plays a key role positioning Lumen to meet AI demand. Lumen will utilize Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) – the industry’s first high-bandwidth 1.6 Tb/s coherent transceiver powered by innovative 3nm silicon in its network to drive significant economic benefits for operators, including a 50% reduction in space and power per bit. Ciena’s Navigator Control Suite (NCS) will help automate the management and control of Lumen’s fiber assets.

“We are amid a truly transformative era, one akin to the dawn of the internet itself. And the enabler of this era is not the AI, but the network. Now more than ever, we need robust, dynamic and scalable networks to cater to growth that was previously unfathomable but is now simply the standard. Lumen is a network that is continually pushing the limits, and its customers across the world will be perfectly positioned to benefit,” said Dino DiPerna, Senior Vice President, Global Research and Development, Ciena.

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