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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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When speed changes the physics of data center connectivity
What happens when the data center connectivity technologies we rely on today start running up against the limits of physics? Brodie Gage explores how rising interconnect speeds are shifting the boundaries between copper and optical—and opening the door to new approaches.
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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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Scale Across: The Network Behind Distributed AI Training
Hear Ciena’s Spencer Giacalone explain Near and Far Scale Across architectures, why highly parallel coherent capacity is foundational to distributed AI, and how Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Nano 800G coherent pluggables and RLS—including Hyper-Rail—are built to address this rapidly emerging networking challenge.
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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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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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