Financial Services Industry

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Rethought, redesigned, redefined.

Introducing WaveRouter. An industry-first breakthrough from legacy constraints—optimally designed for IP/Optical convergence. And built with your financial institution’s communication network goals in mind.

Transforming financial institution networks into high-performing strategic assets.

Financial institutions are on a quest to deliver a superior customer experience and improve operational efficiency. AI-enabled applications like open banking, real-time payments, smart retail branches and high-frequency trading create large amounts of data that need to be transported securely and effectively across multi-cloud environments and data centers to their intended users and locations. 
 
Ciena brings decades of experience tailoring high-speed, secure, low-latency, and flexible network solutions to solve global Fortune 100 financial companies’ data transmission challenges. 

A focus on emerging quantum threats.

Quantum computing has the potential to undermine the foundations of modern encryption. See what Ciena is doing to get ahead of this latent threat.

Insights from the field

Our experts share common networking pain points for financial services and how Ciena is helping resolve them.

Large financial institution embraces new cloud connectivity strategy.

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Global hedge fund moves to a new datacenter.

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Financial customer achieves advantages with a private optical network. 

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Large financial moves significant workloads to the cloud.  

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A new attack vector that cyber actors are pursuing called "capture and harvest".

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Low latency encryption to protect all data in transit. 

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Financial Services use cases

Moving large volumes of data securely across private, public and hybrid cloud environments to branches, users and trading partners requires solutions that can adequately handle the operational parameters these applications require. Moreover, the sector's prime target status for data-breaches makes it crucial to prioritize network security.

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Data Center Interconnection Use Case

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Multi-cloud Core Interconnectivity Use Case

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CASE STUDY

Virtualized Edge Case Study

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Meet the team

Ciena’s tenured team of financial services industry veterans is here to share their advice and help make sense of Ciena’s comprehensive portfolio of services and packet optical solutions. They can help you transform your financial institution communication network into cost-effective and secure assets while improving operational agility. Whether you need to establish high-capacity private optical networks, bolster network security, transition to a multi-cloud environment, deploy secure access service edge (SASE), or migrate to a 400Gbps Ethernet setup—or just want to talk—schedule some time to see how our technology and expertise can drive your digital transformation forward.

Dan McCarthy

Strategic Account Director Financial Markets, Ciena

Dan is focused on flexible transport technology design and network automation strategy.

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Shawn McNesby

Strategic Account Director Financial Markets, Ciena

Shawn helps IT leaders sort through and implement the latest in network design and strategy.

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Gregory Dottin

Strategic Account Director  Financial Markets, Ciena Canada 

Gregory specializes in transforming static environments into highly adaptive, scalable and analytics driven engines.

 

Greg Sysak

 Systems Engineering Director Financial Markets, Ciena 

Greg leads a team of sales engineers to design next-generation network solutions.

 

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