POC - Ciena / Plume / Benu

"The Ciena Residential Broadband solution integrates middle mile and last mile capabilities with our XGS-PON Plugs, Software Orchestration, Coherent Optics Plug, and third-party hardware and software to offer the cities the ability to implement IP and Ethernet services over dedicated fibre, symmetrical 10G PON services over shared fibre, Network Slicing using FlexE and Segment Routing in 1RU pizza box platform. The same platform can aggregate traffic using up to 4 x 200GbE interfaces and is managed by our next-generation domain controller. We will also demonstrate how Ciena Residential Broadband Solution is open to integrating with third-party vendors to help the cities implement a best-of-breed solution serving their community and constituents.   

In this POC, we have a Ciena 5164 router acting as the middle and last mile. The 5164 uses two 10GbE to connect to two different Ciena 3928 routers supporting dedicated IP/Ethernet services. Those two services simulate how a city can use the Ciena solutions to provide high-capacity connectivity to places like police departments, hospitals or city administration offices. The same 5164 will also be equipped with our XGS-PON plug to multiple ONUs from Ciena (3801 and 3802) and a third-party vendor using shared fibre, simulating how a city can use our solution to provide residential broadband services in urban or rural areas also connecting schools or public libraries cost-effectively. The traffic will be aggregated using 100GbE/200GbE interfaces. Our Next Generation domain controller, MCP, will manage the Ciena solution. We will also use a third-parties virtualized BNG platform and Wi-fi Manager to demonstrate the openness of our solution.

This POC aims to help customers in multiple areas looking for a scalable, flexible, and future-proof network solution to support their communications requirements understand how Ciena Broadband Solution can support them."