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Beyond pluggables: The diverging paths of coherent optics
Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains that as networks optimize for power, density, spectral efficiency, and deployment velocity, coherent technology is evolving along multiple paths simultaneously.
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Making network digital twins a reality
Although the concept of a network digital twin (NDT) is not new, there hasn’t been a compelling catalyst to drive widespread adoption of NDT solutions over the years. Now, in the AI era, as operators move towards autonomous operations, both the feasibility and usefulness of NDTs have increased to the extent that they are becoming a reality. Ciena’s Marie Fiala explains the shift to AI-native digital twins.
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Episode 96: Autonomous Networks: Getting to Level 5 in the AI Era
Karina Dahlke, Gabriele Di Piazza, and Erik McLaughlin explore what it takes to reach “level five” autonomous networking in the AI era, offering insights on how network experts and engineers at Ciena and Blue Planet give customers the visibility, context, and automation needed to accelerate the journey.
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Agentic AI-powered network assurance with Navigator Network Control Suite
See how you can rapidly assure your multi-layer network performance in seconds with Navigator NCS agentic AI capabilities.
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Automation and AI for Transport Networks: 2025 Omdia Survey Analysis
Explore Omdia’s survey analysis on automation and AI in transport networks, covering ML, agentic AI adoption, use cases, operator challenges, and what’s next.
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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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Advantages of Managed Spectrum Service vs Dark Fiber + DIY in the Enterprise Market
As network capacity increases, the monthly OPEX for the managed 100G wave service to...
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On Demand: Your best route to IP/Optical convergence
Hear what makes Ciena’s Coherent Networking approach successful.
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