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RLS Hyper-Rail: Solving the challenges of multi-rail photonics

Multi-rail photonics are unlocking a new era of optical network scale, allowing hundreds of fully filled fiber pairs to operate in parallel. Paulina Gomez explores how RLS Hyper-Rail builds on Ciena's proven RLS foundation to deliver up to 32x greater density and the operational capabilities needed to make multi-rail practical at hyperscale.

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Episode 97: Building AI-Ready Networks — From India to the Rest of the World

Lightstorm’s Vinay V. joins Ciena’s Gautam Billa to discuss how the Asia-Pacific connectivity provider is scaling to meet surging hyperscaler, neoscaler, and AI-driven demand, leveraging MOFN, NaaS, and operating at AI speed.

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Data center out-of-band management

In this video, discover how our data center out-of-band management (DCOM) solution, powered by XGS-PON technology, transforms OOB into a resilient fiber-based PON architecture designed to simplify deployment and support growth.

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Reducing operational drag in multi-vendor and multi-generation networks

Explore how AI-enabled process automation and cross-domain coordination improve operations in multi-vendor, multi-generation networks.

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25 years of reinvention: A conversation with Ciena CEO Gary Smith

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AI is everywhere. But its value only flows where networks can carry it.

AI is scaling beyond the data center into distributed inference across clouds and the...

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Ciena and Meta achieve world record 800 Gb/s across 16,608 km on transpacific submarine cable

As AI-driven demand accelerates, Ciena and Meta have set a new world record — achievi...

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Waveserver E-Series: Cost-Efficient Multi-Service Transport for the Edge

Ciena’s Waveserver E-Series platforms are simple-to-deploy edge demarcation devices e...

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Demo of industry's first 1.6 Tb/s coherent solution

Ciena's Heng Foo describes live demonstration of the world's first 1.6Tb/s coherent s...

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AIOps with Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite

This video shows how Navigator Network Control Suite provides AI-driven insights to h...

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Chalk Talk: Programmable photonics, get more capacity and resiliency from your open line system

Ciena’s photonics expert David Boertjes explains how Ciena’s programmable photonics e...

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