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Great Plains Communications Deploys 40-Channel Cyan Backbone Connecting Omaha With Denver
PETALUMA, CA, Nov 27, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Cyan today announced that Great Plains Communications will be
lighting a new 615-mile fiber route using Cyan Z-Series
packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTPs). The Omaha to Denver
route, which includes numerous connection points in Nebraska and
Colorado, will substantially expand the range of business
applications Great Plains can address, especially in the rapidly
growing data center interconnect market. Coupled with Blue Planet,
Cyan's recently announced software-defined network (SDN) system,
Great Plains can rapidly and economically turn up new wavelength and
Ethernet services for local businesses, data center operators, and
cellular providers.
The new fiber route is anchored by redundant Cyan Z-Series P-OTPs
able to deliver services with precisely engineered latency
characteristics. Cyan's Blue Planet software provides a set of design
and operations apps that minimize costs for Great Plains and ensure
SLA compliance. Blue Planet apps even allow Great Plains to offer its
customers real-time visibility into the performance of their
services.
According to John Greene, Chief Network Engineer at Great Plains,
"The addition of this route to our fiber backbone is extremely
important, especially for our data center customers with growing
bandwidth and strict SLA requirements. Not only do we get needed
redundancy within our Nebraska footprint, we also have the
opportunity to offer our business customers connectivity to Denver at
affordable rates. While the Cyan Z-Series gives us the capacity and
flexibility we need, Blue Planet software is what really makes the
difference. With Blue Planet we have a lot more confidence that what
we design is what we will get and what our customers will actually
experience."
Added Cyan co-founder and CMO Eric Clelland, "Great Plains
Communications is providing strategic bandwidth access alternatives
to the heartland. With data centers being opened and expanded
throughout the region, adding capacity to and between them becomes
critical to furthering the growth of cloud-based applications and
storage. Great Plains is staying ahead of the demand curve and better
addressing the needs of its customers with this expansion."
Great Plains has delivered state-of-the-art services to business and
residential customers in rural Nebraska for over 100 years. The new
route will be fully capable of delivering 100G wavelength services.
Great Plains anticipates offering 100G services beginning in 2013.
About Cyan
Cyan is global supplier of software-defined networks (SDNs) for
service providers, data center operators, and private networks. Cyan
solutions include Blue Planet SDN software, Z-Series multi-layer
packet-optical transport platforms, and Cyan PRO comprehensive
professional services. With hundreds of deployments around the globe,
including some of the largest telecommunication companies in the
world, Cyan allows its customers to scale their networks, reduce
costs, simplify operations, and accelerate service delivery. For more
information, please visit www.cyaninc.com or follow Cyan on Twitter
at http://twitter.com/CyanNews.
For Cyan inquiries, please contact:
Eric Clelland
+1 707.338.5836
Email Contact
Twitter: @CyanNews
Engage PR for Cyan
Jeannette Bitz
+1 510.748.8200 ext. 207
Email Contact
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