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Article: CIENA's MultiWave Metro Selected by Cable & Wireless USA for Nationwide High-Capacity Internet Network Build.
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- June 7, 1999
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LINTHICUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999--
CIENA Corporation (Nasdaq: CIEN) announced today that Cable & Wireless USA has selected CIENA's MultiWave Metro(TM) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transport system as a key building block for Cable & Wireless' nationwide, next-generation, high-capacity Internet network. CIENA is expected to begin shipping equipment in July 1999, for the first phase of this project, which is expected to provide intra-city connections for more than 20 metropolitan areas in the United States.
"The next critical bandwidth bottleneck in carrier networks lies in the metropolitan area," said Scott Clavenna, ...