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Drive next-generation business services at the network edge

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Metro

Evolve your metro network to become more simple, scalable, and sustainable

  • Coherent routing
  • Metro DCI
  • Metro optical architectures
  • On-demand wave services

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

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  • Global DCI
  • Submarine networking
  • Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN)

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

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Enterprise edge

Accelerate your edge service revenue, including high-value cloud networking and security services, with our comprehensive enterprise edge solutions

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  • Edge routing and switching

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

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  • Quantum secure communications

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Simplify network and services management with intelligent automation and software-defined control

  • Multi-layer network control
  • Intelligent automation

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Accelerate your network transformation with our industry-leading experts, field-proven analytical tools, and tailored approach and methodology

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Put coherent routing in the driver’s seat

Simple, scalable, sustainable converged networking to optimize multi-layer, multi-vendor performance.

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1.6 Tb/s is here: What it means for networks and the industry

The next era of networking is here: 1.6 Tb/s. Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains the technology breakthroughs that made this possible, how this changes networking – and what it means for the industry.

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WaveLogic 6 Extreme - Evolving to 1.6Tb/s Networking

Joe Shapiro, Vice President PLM, explains the business benefits of evolving to 1.6T technology with Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme for network providers. Learn more about the technology that delivers unrivaled high bandwidth connectivity and the performance required with next-generation 800G routing data paths and associated wholesale services.

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Episode 75: Pushing the limits of connectivity with Vocus

On this episode of the Ciena Insights Podcast, Jarrod Nink, Chief Operating Officer at Vocus offers an insider's perspective to how the Australian network provider is capitalizing on this surging demand for bandwidth.

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Intelligent Data - Driven Operations with AIOps

CSPs are looking to use AIOps to broaden the scope of network management and improve operational efficiency at each stage of the network lifecycle, by combining big data with AI/machine learning (ML).

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Weekly roundup | Ciena network Insights | January 6, 2023

January 6, 2023
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In this edition of the insights: Learn how to take your IP network to new heights with open, automated, and lean IP. Watch Southern Cross’s Laurie Miller and Ciena’s Steve Alexander discuss how Ciena’s technology and its people are supporting Southern Cross NEXT's endeavor to meet the growing demand for global connectivity. Lastly, Dedicado's terrestrial and submarine high-capacity network uses WaveLogic 5 Extreme to support up to 800 Gbps between Argentina and Uruguay.
ARTICLES
    Articles
    Want to take your IP network to new heights? Look no further than Ciena.

    It is no longer a question of if people want a new way to build their IP networks, but how. Ciena’s Joe Marsella explains how the innovations Ciena has made to deliver open, automated, and lean IP benefit our customers and have influenced how the industry is thinking about the evolution to next-generation metro and edge networks.

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    Videos
    What’s NEXT for Southern Cross?

    Southern Cross’s Laurie Miller and Ciena’s Steve Alexander discuss how Southern Cross NEXT is primed to meet the demand for global connectivity.

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    Press Releases
    Dedicado Taps Ciena to Improve Connectivity Between Argentina and Uruguay

    Dedicado recently deployed a high-capacity, resilient network between Argentina and Uruguay. Dedicado is leveraging Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme.

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RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT

What is IP and Ethernet aggregation?

IP and Ethernet aggregation is a converged networking approach that allows operators to aggregate traffic from common Ethernet and IP (Layer 2 & 3) services.

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