THUS has chosen the Ciena CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to support the delivery of a new high-capacity, next-generation network to the London Metropolitan Network (LMN). Ciena's CN 4200 will be deployed as part of THUS' turnkey solution to provide the LMN with a highly resilient, scalable optical network, connecting 137 higher and further education sites across Greater London, and offering 20Gbit/s capacity to meet the growing demand from educational institutions for higher bandwidth. As the capital's metropolitan research and education network, the LMN provides more than one million students with access to advanced services and online learning applications, and also connects member institutions to JANET, the UK's research and academic network. Ciena's CN 4200 platform will be used to interconnect LMN’s three major points of presence (PoPs), namely the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), Imperial College and Kings College Waterloo Campus, providing two optical transmission wavelengths between each site. Each wavelength will deliver 10Gbit/s of capacity to support the unique requirements of the academic community, including bandwidth-intensive applications like video and remote data storage. A fourth network link will be deployed to provide Gigabit Ethernet point-to-point connectivity between the ULCC and Queen Mary, University of London. THUS' networks will also interconnect to SuperJANET5, which links users across the UK's education community, and is also supported by Ciena's optical solutions.
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