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MACsec Line-rate security for high-speed networks

The growing adoption of Ethernet and the need to secure data at line rate makes MACsec critical to meeting the performance and se ...

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Residential Broadband for Utilities

Utilities need a modern, sustainable network that can deliver both residential broadband and smart grid services to the communiti ...

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Residential Broadband for Municipal Governments

Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution—open, modular, and scalable by design—leverages innovative broadband architecture and prov ...

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Residential Broadband for Communications Service ...

Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution is flexible and sustainable—open, modular, and scalable by design—providing Communications ...

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Residential Broadband for Consulting and Engineer ...

With once-in-a-generation public and private investments, the time is now for CEFs to rethink how to design a next-generation bro ...

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Residential Broadband for Internet Service Provid ...

Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution—which is flexible, cost-effective, and sustainable—enables Internet Service Providers and ...

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Residential Broadband for Cable/MSOs

Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution is designed to deliver the openness, modularity, and scalability Cable/MSOs require to est ...

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A Path to a Modern and Versatile Government Broad ...

The 6500 PTS, a high-performing TDM-to-packet technology solution that can provide both legacy and routing and switching services.

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WaveLogic 5 Nano 400ZR: Scaling Single-span Data ...

As network bandwidth growth continues unabated and new compute-intensive applications come online, global cloud and content provi ...

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Ciena Virtualized Edge Solution – Service Provide ...

The Ciena Virtualized Edge Solution is specifically designed to help service providers successfully implement a virtualized netwo ...

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Ciena Virtualized Edge Solution – Enterprises

Most enterprises understand that, after virtualizing their IT assets, the virtualization of their network assets is the next step ...

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Converging and Automating 5G Networks

Ciena offers a complete, open solution, allowing MNOs and wholesale operators to build best-in-breed 5G networks for competitive ...

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Grow Smarter by Leveraging Existing Infrastructure

Network designers and engineers are left with the complex challenge of conceiving solutions that deliver a lot more for much less ...

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Converged OT/IT Intelligence

Real-time, self-discovering, self-healing, self-configuring networks are becoming reality. This new intelligence allows network o ...

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Simplifying Security between Data Centers with Op ...

Safeguarding sensitive data is essential to protect intellectual property and confidential records, and app-to-app communications ...

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Next-generation Access Technology for the Converg ...

Cable MSOs are looking to packet-based infrastructures that will deliver optimum performance and make it possible to introduce ne ...

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Enabling New Service and Efficiency Opportunities ...

Service providers building modern transport networks are faced with challenges of how to scale the network and stay ahead of requ ...

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Craving Bandwidth? Grow Smarter by Leveraging You ...

Networks are experiencing explosive bandwidth growth, and technology service providers are the first to face its impact. Ciena de ...

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Greenfield Network Building to Deliver High-bandw ...

Many are choosing to deploy Ciena’s IP and Ethernet aggregation solutions, which support programmatical scalability on demand et ...

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Modernizing IP and Ethernet Aggregation

This application note details how enterprises can upgrade end-of-life aggregation networks with the latest-generation routing and ...

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Breaking the Chains of Inflexible Legacy Network ...

This paper explains how to replace aging SDH and Ethernet networks with Ciena’s latest-generation routing and switching aggregati ...

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A Path to a Modern and Versatile Government Broad ...

This paper summarizes government networking challenges and opportunities and introduces Ciena’s 6500 Packet Transport System a pr ...

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Blueprint for Utility Network Modernization: Cien ...

This paper explains how Ciena’s 6500 PTS solves multiple TDM-to-packet migration challenges.

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Solving the TDM-to-Packet Migration Challenge

Service providers have a networking challenge and opportunity. They must evolve away from their outdated TDM networks, which are ...

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