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Ciena’s When it comes to IP/Optical convergence – can you see the forest for the trees?

Are you finding yourself getting stuck in all the noise and details surrounding IP/Optical convergence? Not sure where you should start? Ciena’s Brodie Gage shares his learnings from talking with customers and the keys for developing a successful convergence strategy.

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Catch-up with Ciena and Blue Planet at SCTE Cable-Tec 2021

Check out what Ciena has planned at next week’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2021 Virtual Experience and the interesting insights our experts will be sharing.

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Globe with city lights The Journey to 800G and Beyond

The road to innovation begins with a map. Sometimes it’s figurative — a roadmap or a plan for how to solve an issue at hand. In some cases (and this is true for Zayo), it’s a physical map that literally shows where infrastructure will be placed so innovation can take place.

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What Is L-band?

L-band, or long band, is a wavelength band immediately adjacent to the Conventional band (C-band) initially used to expand the capacity of terrestrial DWDM optical networks. It is now being introduced to submarine cable operators to do the same thing—expand the total capacity of a submarine cable.

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