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Businesses of almost all types are increasingly dependent on service providers for network connectivity that consistently delivers certain performance characteristics. In addition to basic service availability, these characteristics increasingly include peak, average and minimum bandwidth utilization, latency (delay) and latency variation (jitter), and packet loss -- all of which can affect operational efficiency and end user satisfaction. This is especially the case with Ethernet-based service offerings employing packet transport to deliver E-LINE services operating at speeds up to tens of gigabits per second.

Cyan has upgraded its CyMS and CyPortal software systems to provide multi-vendor network management, service-level agreement (SLA) assurance, and integrated Ethernet protection. In addition to overseeing the operations of Cyan’s Z-Series packet-optical transport systems, the software platforms will now interoperate with platforms from Accedian Networks, Overture Networks, and Telco Systems – with more vendors on the way.

The enhanced capabilities come with the R3.2 release for the Z-Series packet-optical transport platforms and Cyan 360 software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems. According to Frank Weiner, vice president of marketing at Cyan, the new capabilities are a response to customer requests for an end-to-end view of the network, including platforms that Cyan does not yet provide, such as network interface devices. Wireless backhaul applications represent a typical scenario where such an ability will prove beneficial, he says.

Zayo is the latest service provider to employ Cyan Networks' Z-Series packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP) platform as key element of its Manhattan network upgrade.

With the Cyan gear, the competitive provider plans to target a number of the area's financial institutions that want high speed and lower latency services. Zayo also plans to provide wholesale services to other service providers and wireless operators with Ethernet and wavelength services

Having deployed the Cyan Z-Series in a number of its markets since 2009, the two companies are hardly strangers.

The Cyan Z-Series P-OTP has been deployed in multiple Zayo markets over the past two years--demonstrating carrier class reliability, scalable Ethernet services, along with valuable service management and SLA reporting capability in the Cyan360 Software portfolio

Zayo, a national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services, has selected the Cyan Z-Series platform for an upgrade to its Manhattan network.

Thanks to the Manhattan network upgrade, Zayo will now be able to offer more advanced Ethernet and wavelength services to some of the largest financial institutions in the world as well as wholesale packet services to large carriers and wireless operators.

Officials with Cyan pointed out that the Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP) has been deployed in multiple Zayo markets over the past two years -- demonstrating carrier class reliability, scalable Ethernet services, along with valuable service management and SLA reporting capability in the Cyan360 Software portfolio.

"Cyan has been very effective for us across multiple markets so it made sense to look to them when we decided to upgrade our New York market," said David Howson, president of Zayo Bandwidth.