Ciena expands Blue Orbit Ecosystem

Adds 30 new industry leaders, including Akamai, Ammeon, Check Point, EMC, Netrounds, ON.Lab and Sytel Reply.

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Ciena has added 30 new organisations as members to its Blue Orbit Ecosystem focused on delivering applications and infrastructure platforms for real-world, multi-vendor software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) deployments. Blue Orbit now includes a total of 64 members, who are committed to supporting network operators’ ongoing transformation to open, programmable and virtualised networks.

Additionally, Ciena has expanded Blue Orbit to reflect a greater focus on collaboration between customers and ecosystem members by creating four distinct categories: Blue Orbit Community Member, DevOps Partner, Service Partner, and Technology Partner.

Some notable additions to Blue Orbit include: Akamai Technologies, the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services; Ammeon, a leading IT and Network transformation services company; Check Point Software Technologies, the largest network cyber security vendor globally; EMC, the world’s largest provider of data storage systems; Netrounds, a programmable test and service assurance provider; Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to developing tools and platforms and building open source communities to realise the full potential of SDN; and Sytel Reply, a leading consulting, systems integration and digital services company.

Ciena’s Blue Planet Division enables true end-to-end service orchestration and provides a leading network virtualisation, orchestration, and management software suite. The complete list of existing partners can be found here.

Ciena expands Blue Orbit Ecosystem

Adds 30 new industry leaders, including Akamai, Ammeon, Check Point, EMC, Netrounds, ON.Lab and Sytel Reply.

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