We have a need to run multiple wavelength over dark fiber for a few of our facility.
We engaged multiple optical vendors for this project, but although our network shop is highly skilled, none had ever worked with any optical transport gear such as cisco ons or adva or cienna. At this time we are leaning towards ciena compared to the other vendors, and would like to see if anyone here have personally worked on ciena gear.
Ciena claimed that their hardware is very easy to work with, there's GUI, industry standard CLI, etc.
Has someone here have experienced working with dwdm gear?, how difficult is it for an expert level network engineer to learn this stuff ??
We engaged multiple optical vendors for this project, but although our network shop is highly skilled, none had ever worked with any optical transport gear such as cisco ons or adva or cienna. At this time we are leaning towards ciena compared to the other vendors, and would like to see if anyone here have personally worked on ciena gear.
Ciena claimed that their hardware is very easy to work with, there's GUI, industry standard CLI, etc.
Has someone here have experienced working with dwdm gear?, how difficult is it for an expert level network engineer to learn this stuff ??