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Zawya
23-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Ciena accelerates sustainable network transformation in line with UAE and Saudi Arabia's green ambitions
Dubai/Riyadh – Amid a surge in AI applications and network traffic, Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN), the global leader in high-speed connectivity, is driving sustainable innovation, circular practices, and efficiencies across its supply chain and operations, supporting the demand for high-performing, low-carbon networks in the Middle East and helping the region's Net Zero targets and Vision 2030 goals. Ciena's latest Sustainability Report spotlights innovations enabling network operators to reduce energy, waste, and material use while meeting increasing network capacity and performance needs. By focusing on these core areas, Ciena is driving meaningful progress and contributing to global and regional efforts to combat climate change. 'Leading hyperscale and cloud providers have made significant investments to launch data centers in Saudi Arabia to securely store content, run workloads and offer higher speeds for customers. This year alone, over $10 billion has been pledged for data center build outs in the country,' said James Crawshaw, practice leader, Omdia. Both the UAE and KSA have been accelerating their ambitions to become regional data centre powerhouses. Meanwhile, other local data centers in Ajman and Abu Dhabi will support burgeoning AI workloads. These developments require the network to scale sustainably to meet the needs of AI data center hubs. 'Ciena is at the forefront of creating modern architectures and implementing network optimizations to ensure our customers can maintain peak capacity and support evolving connectivity needs,' said Virginie Hollebecque, Vice President and Leader of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Ciena. 'As both the UAE and KSA accelerate their sustainability ambitions in line with global standards, Ciena is committed to meeting capacity demands while minimizing environmental impact. We are working with network operators to optimize optical network infrastructure and strategically support the evolution of AI data center hubs.' Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme reduces power consumption per bit by 54%, enabling operators to scale sustainably. Earlier this year, e& UAE, deployed WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) on its optical network, boosting the network with ultra-high speed 400G client infrastructure connectivity, and supporting 10 Gb home services and wholesale and domestic business customer traffic with 100G and 400G requirements. Through Ciena's Adaptive Network vision, with programmable infrastructure and real-time telemetry data, advanced analytics, and AI, the network can constantly learn and improve efficiency, driving greater sustainability. Furthermore, its Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio and Navigator Network Control Suite deliver actionable insights, harnessing this real-time streaming telemetry data through open, industry-standard APIs. In addition to working with network operators to transform and scale their networks to optimize capacity and efficiency while reducing energy, Ciena supports circular practices. It is increasing the use of recycled plastics and using halogen-free printed circuit boards in its product design to reduce environmental impact. Its redesigned packaging now uses a minimum of 70% recycled content and to reduce emissions from both material use and shipping. About Ciena Ciena is the global leader in high-speed connectivity. We build the world's most adaptive networks to support exponential growth in bandwidth demand. By harnessing the power of our networking systems, components, automation software, and services, Ciena revolutionizes data transmission and network management. With unparalleled expertise and innovation, we empower our customers, partners, and communities to thrive in the AI era. Note to Ciena Investors You are encouraged to review the Investors section of our website, where we routinely post press releases, SEC filings, recent news, financial results, and other announcements. From time to time, we exclusively post material information to this website along with other disclosure channels that we use. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations, forecasts, information, and assumptions. These statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those stated or implied, because of risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in our most recent annual and quarterly reports filed with the SEC. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies and can be identified by words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will," and "would" or similar words. Ciena assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AirHopAI™ Joins Amdocs Cognitive RAN Automation Ecosystem to Bring Its AI-powered Automation and Optimization rApps
Broad Portfolio of AirHopAI's AI-Powered rApps is supported by most leading RIC and SMO Vendors Worldwide SAN DIEGO, March 03, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AirHopAI, a leading provider of AI-powered Network Automation and Optimization solutions, today announced a new ecosystem collaboration with Amdocs for its broad portfolio of Auptim® rApps. With the addition of Amdocs, AirHopAI extends the availability of its AI-powered Auptim rApps across most of the leading RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) and Service Management & Orchestration (SMO) platforms. With extensive ecosystem collaborations, AirHopAI's growing portfolio of Auptim rApps can be used with SMO and non-real-time RIC platforms for Open RAN, Cloud RAN, and Traditional RAN deployments. Amdocs extends AirHopAI's existing open ecosystem, which includes Capgemini, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Juniper Networks, and Rakuten Symphony. AirHopAI's rApps support a wide range of use case categories, including AI/ML-powered RAN Anomaly Detection, Energy Savings, Coverage and Capacity Optimization, Configuration Automation, and Mobility Management. "Communication System Providers (CSPs) around the world are increasingly planning to adopt RIC and SMO platforms, along with rApps, to enable highly agile RAN programmability and service management," said Anand Parikh, AirHopAI's CEO. "AirHopAI provides the industry's leading portfolio of AI/ML-powered rApps that bring value to the RIC and SMO platforms for CSPs. We are pleased to collaborate with Amdocs to support their SMO/RIC customers' needs and accelerate the adoption of AI-powered Open RAN, while also supporting Cloud RAN and traditional RAN architectures." "AirHopAI continues to lead the industry with the largest number of supported RIC and SMO partners," said James Crawshaw, Telco Software analyst with Omdia. "Portability and readiness of rApp across the ecosystem of SMO and RIC platforms is critical to allow CSPs to build Open networks on best-in-class platforms and rApps that meet their needs." About AirHopAI AirHopAI ( is a leading provider of cloud-native AI-powered Open RAN automation and real-time optimization software solutions that deliver significant gains in spectral efficiency, lower operating costs and improve end-user quality of experience for 4G and 5G mobile networks. AirHopAI's solutions are backed by a comprehensive portfolio of patents and are field-proven across more than one and a half million commercial macro and small cells in CSP networks. AirHopAI and Auptim are trademarks of AirHop Communications, Inc. View source version on Contacts Media Contacts:MarketingAirHop Communications+1 (858) 208-0834media@ Sign in to access your portfolio
