The Waveserver® family of stackable interconnect platforms delivers more capacity and lower power for high-growth, bandwidth-intensive applications. The Waveserver family provides massive scale to meet the surging capacity needs of the most demanding cloud applications and data services. With a simple, server-like operational model leveraging open API programmability, the Waveserver family eases platform integration and facilitates volume deployments.

Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform is optimized for 100GbE and 400GbE applications and provides unmatched scaling capabilities with up to 12.8 Tb/s client and 12.8 Tb/s line capacity in a compact 2RU footprint.


Provides massive scalability and high performance with Ciena’s innovative WaveLogic coherent technology

Enables unique, industry-leading per-wavelength capacities, as high as 1.6 Tb/s

Increases total fiber capacity with increased spectral efficiency and support for C- and L-band

Offers ultra-low power per bit to reduce ongoing energy costs

Provides a suite of management interfaces and open APIs for automation, provisioning, management programmability, and ease of back-office integration

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) simplifies on-site commissioning and service provisioning to get traffic up and running quickly