FiberLight has picked Ciena’s Blue Planet for automation. They are deploying Blue Planet Inventory and Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration in order to enhance turn-up and delivery of on-demand services. FiberLight operates 14,000 route miles of metro and regional fiber primarily in Texas, the DC metro area, Tampa, and Atlanta. It’s an expansion of a longstanding relationship between Ciena and FiberLight.
Exponential-e has a new partner to help with connecting UK businesses to the cloud. They have integrated CTERA Networks’ enterprise file services platform into their S4 Cloud Optical Storage offering.