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Ciena is the global leader in high-speed connectivity. Our networking systems, components, automation software, and services revolutionize data transmission and network management.

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Cloud and AI networking

Seamlessly integrate cloud and AI workloads with high-capacity, low-latency connectivity

  • Cloud and AI networking
  • AI-ready IP networking
  • DCI and scale-across networks
  • Data center OOB management
  • Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN)
  • Scale-up and scale-out networks

Access and aggregation

Deliver the next generation of enterprise and mobile transport services with unparalleled scale and flexibility

  • Enterprise
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  • TDM
  • Broadband

Metro and edge

Simplify, scale, and optimize your metro and edge networks to meet new AI-driven connectivity demands

  • Coherent routing
  • Metro optical architectures
  • On-demand Wavelength Services

Long haul

Maximize capacity and operational efficiencies with our innovative, flexible long-haul solutions

  • High-capacity switching and transport

Submarine

Learn how GeoMesh Extreme unifies submarine, terrestrial, and cloud networks. Unprecedented capacity, latency, and sustainability are within reach.

  • Submarine networking

Open line systems

Gain more visibility and optimize your photonic network assets with our intelligent open line systems

  • Programmable photonics

Secure networking

Mitigate security risks and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data

  • Data security and encryption
  • Quantum-safe communications

AI-driven operations

Power your autonomous networking journey with AI-optimized multi-layer network control and cloud-native OSS solutions

  • Multi-layer network control
  • Blue Planet Inventory
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  • Blue Planet Orchestration

Services

Ensure your network keeps pace with ever-evolving business requirements and industry advancements. Our experts provide a tailored approach to drive success.

  • Network acceleration
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  • Managed operations
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Fast-track connectivity, capacity, and success

Accelerate growth and monetize AI applications with industry-leading scale, simplified operations, and proven experience

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AI inference demands more dynamic connectivity: Here’s the opportunity for service providers

As AI adoption drives rapid growth in inference alongside continued training demand, enterprise traffic is becoming more distributed, dynamic, and unpredictable. Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explores how service providers can respond with more agile, on-demand connectivity to turn the evolving needs of AI into a new growth opportunity.

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Understanding scale-up and scale-out networks

AI model training depends on dedicated networking architectures designed for different performance requirements. In this video, Spencer Giacalone, Senior Director of Cloud and AI Architecture, explains the roles of scale-up and scale-out networks, why both are essential for AI infrastructure, and how technologies such as NVLink, RoCEv2, and emerging standards enable efficient, high-performance AI networks. He also discusses how Ciena’s Nitro and Vesta products support next-generation XPU connectivity.

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The next phase of AI connectivity: How CSPs can capitalize on emerging demand with NTT, Omdia, and Ciena

In this webinar, explore how AI demand is driving new connectivity requirements across edge, metro, and long-haul networks—from high-capacity wavelength services and dedicated AI connectivity to flexible, on-demand service offerings.

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Application Note

Enabling data center connectivity with coherent routing

Explore five practical use cases for enabling data center and AI-driven deployments with coherent routing. Covering colocation providers, service providers, enterprises, and neoscalers, this application note connects market shifts such as AI growth, cloud expansion, and expanding data center footprints to specific network architectures and deployment approaches.

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As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, we empower our customers, partners, and communities to thrive in the AI era.

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Our commitments to inclusion, social impact, well-being, and sustainability, empower our people to improve their lives and lift those around them.

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Telxius and Ciena Achieve First Live 1.3 Tb/s Data Transmission Across the Atlantic

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Weekly roundup | Ciena network Insights | September 30, 2022

September 30, 2022
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In this edition of the insights: Gain an industry view on how analytics can help the convergence of IP and optical network layers. Then learn about how 79% U.S. business professionals want to use the metaverse instead of video conferencing tools. Lastly, understand how middle-mile fiber optic networks are crucial to delivering broadband connectivity and digital inclusion to rural communities.
ARTICLES
    Press Releases
    U.S. Business Professionals Want to Get ‘Meta’ About Meetings

    A new study commissioned by Ciena has uncovered just how ready business professionals are to collaborate in the virtual world.

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    Infobriefs
    The Middle Mile: A Critical Link for Broadband Expansion

    Middle-mile fiber optic networks are crucial to delivering broadband connectivity and digital inclusion to rural communities.

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RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT

What is IP/Optical convergence?

Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a technique in fiber-optic transmission for using multiple light wavelengths (or colors) to send data over the same medium.

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