This maximizes operational efficiencies as well as encourages cost savings and service agility in long haul infrastructure and submarine applications. Ciena's WL5e helps network providers streamline their networking infrastructure to deliver data-heavy bandwidth services and manage exponential traffic growth. In addition, the wholesale unit of Deutsche Telekom plans to capitalize on Ciena's avant-garde 6500 packet-optical platforms and Waveserver transponsders with Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controllers. The 6500 packet-optical platform consists of simple-to-deploy connectivity solutions that improves scalability and addresses unpredictable traffic requirements with minimal footprint.