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Chalk Talk

Technology video series

Technology talk from Ciena's experts

In Chalk Talks, our experts explore some of today's hottest technology topics, like NFV, FlexE and the future of networking. It's a video series you don't want to miss.

Chalk Talk Videos

Video | 5:05

Chalk Talk - WaveRouter, Ciena’s purpose-built coherent ...

Meet Ciena’s purpose-built coherent metro router and hear how our simple, scalable, and sustainable WaveRouter ...

Video | 4:31

Chalk Talk: Weatherized PON

With powerful new direct outdoor devices, Ciena’s weatherized PON approach fundamentally changes how operators can ...

Video | 6:00

Chalk Talk - 5G Transport Solutions

5G deployments involve new RAN architectures with major impacts on mobile transport networks. In this ...

Video | 4:40

Chalk Talk - Universal Aggregation

One network. Welcome to the edge. Ciena’s Universal Aggregation (UA) approach unifies PON, IP, TDM, ...

Video | 4:32

Chalk Talk - OneConnect

Listen to Gary Swinkels review the technical architecture and advantages of OneConnect.

Video | 6:45

Chalk Talk - The Future of Networks ...

Ciena CTO Steve Alexander provides his insights into the future direction of critical communications networks ...

Video | 3:58

Chalk Talk - Throughput-optimized FEC in WaveLogic ...

Wonder about digital signal processing techniques that allow for transport of more data across the ...

Video | 6:33

Chalk Talk - Ciena’s Waveserver 5 compact ...

Get more 100GE/400GE at any distance. In this video, Joe Shapiro, Sr. Director PLM, introduces ...

Video | 5:51

Chalk Talk - Nonlinear Probabilistic Constellation Shaping ...

Wonder about digital signal processing techniques that allow for transport of more data across the ...

Video | 9:21

Chalk Talk - WaveLogic 5 Extreme – ...

Watch this interactive video by Helen Xenos, Sr. Director Portfolio Marketing at Ciena, as she ...

Video | 5:59

Chalk Talk - Ciena’s Manage, Control and ...

MCP supercharges Ciena networks, by providing centralized software control of lifecycle network and service operations, ...

Video | 6:00

Chalk Talk - Adaptive IP

Ciena’s Adaptive IP™. IP Delivered Differently.There’s a new way to modernize and expand your IP-based ...

Video | 5:58

Chalk Talk - 5171 Platform: Redefining the ...

With powerful new software and hardware capabilities, Ciena’s 5171 puts more capacity closer to where ...

Video | 4:31

Chalk Talk - WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G ...

Joe Shapiro, Sr. Director Product Line Management, describes how the role of coherent technology is ...

Video | 4:51

Chalk Talk - WaveLogic 5 Extreme

Joe Shapiro, Senior Director, Product Line Management, explains how Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme provides tunable ...

Video | 6:13

Chalk Talk - Speed where you need ...

Getting bandwidth where it is needed is increasingly critical to today's cloud-centric business model. And ...

Video | 6:07

Chalk Talk - Blue Planet Analytics

The network is a massive interconnection of users, devices, technologies and applications where petabytes of ...

Video | 6:19

Chalk Talk - Distributed Network Functions Virtualization ...

Distributed Network Functions Virtualization (D-NFV) is a complete, open, modular solution purpose-built for a distributed ...

Video | 6:36

Chalk Talk - TDM-to-Packets

Thirty-year-old Time Division Multiplexing (TDM technology) is no longer state of the art. And running ...

Video | 5:18

Chalk Talk - Fiber Deep

Cable operators are pushing fiber closer to customers to provide better services. In this Chalk ...

Video | 8:08

Chalk Talk – Changing the Submarine Networking ...

Back in 2013, Ciena introduced a sea change in network architectures that changed how end-to-end ...

Video | 5:22

Chalk Talk - Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

Say goodbye to vendor lock-in. Rob Tomkins discusses how Ciena’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) creates ...

Video | 5:21

Chalk Talk - Liquid Spectrum

Ciena's Liquid Spectrum™ is redefining optical for an on-demand world. Our photonics expert David Boertjes ...

Video | 5:24

Chalk Talk - Waveserver Ai

Capacity with minimal footprint. Power efficiency. Ease of use. You told us your requirements for ...

Video | 4:44

Chalk Talk - WaveLogic Ai

Joe Shapiro, Director, Product Line Management, explains how Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai coherent technology introduces a ...

Video | 4:49

Chalk Talk - What is Flex Ethernet ...

Sebastien Gareau, Hardware Systems Architect at Ciena, talks about the industry effort to introduce flexibility ...

Video | 4:18

Chalk Talk - Optical Control Plane

This is used in optical networks to simplify connectivity across the network. Components include discovery ...

Video | 6:43

Chalk Talk - Migrating Teleprotection to Carrier ...

Teleprotection requires deterministic network performance—something not typically associated with packet networks. However, modern Carrier Ethernet ...

Video | 5:31

Chalk Talk - Utility Network Modernization With ...

The pressure is on utility companies to modernize their decades-old grids to ensure the continued ...

Video | 6:32

Chalk Talk - G.8032 - Ethernet Ring ...

Are you ready to ride the Ethernet bandwidth curve? Marc Holness discusses how Ciena’s solution ...

Video | 2:21

Chalk Talk - Flexible Coherent Architectures

Dave Boertjes provides an overview of Flexible Coherent Architectures.

Video | 3:43

Chalk Talk - WaveLogic 3 Nano

Designed to address the density challenge of introducing 100G coherent into the metro, WaveLogic 3 ...

Video | 2:18

Chalk Talk - Coherent Optical Technology

John Sitch provides and overview of Coherent Technology.

Video | 5:39

Chalk Talk - Coherent Select

Bandwidth demands are exploding and networks must evolve. Ciena's WaveLogic Photonics Coherent Select is the ...

Video | 2:15

Chalk Talk - Coherent Optical Cycle Slips ...

Cycle slips can spell trouble for service providers. If a coherent system is not designed ...

Video | 1:27

Chalk Talk - Soft Forward Error Correction ...

Soft Forward Error Correction provides the best performance for your network because it gives higher ...

Video | 5:02

Chalk Talk - WaveLogic 3

Are you still providing 1st-generation solutions to 3rd-generation problems? Joe Berthold discusses how Ciena’s new ...

Video | 3:25

Chalk Talk - Terabit

Ready for the future of networking? Modern networks anticipate a 1 Tb/s channel capacity, which ...

Video | 5:22

Chalk Talk - Optical Transport Network (OTN) ...

Loudon Blair provides an overview of the Optical Transport Network (OTN).

Video | 5:03

Chalk Talk - MPLS-TP

Non-congruent paths can be devastating when data needs to be diverted to another path. Bashar ...

Video | 4:32

Chalk Talk - WaveLogic 3 Extreme

Looking for extreme performance from all applications? The WaveLogic 3 Extreme delivers unprecedented capacity and ...

Video | 6:45

Chalk Talk - Small Cell

The number of new users being added to mobile networks is astounding—and they're more data-hungry ...

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