CenturyLink, RAD, Ciena, and Ciena’s Blue Planet Division Earn Proof of Concept Excellence Award at MEF 16

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Those open APIs were developed, in collaboration with RAD and Ciena, to enable automated provisioning and the delivery of orchestrated services in a multi-vendor environment, providing solutions to many of the challenges IT managers face.“This PoC ran on CenturyLink’s real-world network environment, bringing this solution several steps closer to deployment and demonstrating to customers that if they need multi-vendor orchestration within their environment, we can build it.” The judging panel for the MEF 2016 Excellence Awards was comprised of global and regional senior analysts from ATLANTIC-ACM, Current Analysis, Frost & Sullivan, IHS Markit, Metanoia, Ovum, SDxCentral, and Vertical Systems, in addition to independent judges.Those open APIs were developed, in collaboration with RAD and Ciena, to enable automated provisioning and the delivery of orchestrated services in a multi-vendor environment, providing solutions to many of the challenges IT managers face.“We are honored to have received this award,” said Jack Pugaczewski, CenturyLink Distinguished Network Architect.“This PoC ran on CenturyLink’s real-world network environment, bringing this solution several steps closer to deployment and demonstrating to customers that if they need multi-vendor orchestration within their environment, we can build it.”The judging panel for the MEF 2016 Excellence Awards was comprised of global and regional senior analysts from ATLANTIC-ACM, Current Analysis, Frost & Sullivan, IHS Markit, Metanoia, Ovum, SDxCentral, and Vertical Systems, in addition to independent judges.MEF 2016 is the global gathering of networking professionals enabling the future of agile, assured and orchestrated services.For more information about RAD visit http://www.rad.com, follow us on Twitter @RADdatacomms, or check us out on LinkedIn and Facebook.About CienaCiena is a network strategy and technology company.

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