Government, Education & Healthcare Industry Expert - Daniele Loffreda

Powering 21st Century Learning for K-12 Students - Can You Meet the Changing Demands?

Learning environments are having to evolve to prepare students for the impacts from artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and genomics. Is your school ready? Daniele Loffreda shows what K-12 Leaders need to do to design the

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Why Smart Cities Need Adaptable Pipes

For cities to evolve and realize the full benefits of becoming “smart” they will require real-time access to multiple sources of data from different locations. Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains what is needed from the next-generation of networks to

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Will disruptive healthcare technologies disrupt hospital networks?

New innovations stemming from artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected health are changing the way medical professionals treat their patients. Doctors are having to adapt to take advantage of these developments – but has their network

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Is It Time to Replace Your Network's Annual Check-Up?

The evolution toward a more holistic, personalized health maintenance program will create an explosion of data putting more pressure on our communication networks. Is your network healthy enough to make the sharing of this information possible?

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EdTech: 6 Reasons Why Your E-Rate Funding Request Will Be Denied

Wondering why your E-Rate funding request was denied or delayed? You might be making one of these common mistakes when it comes to submitting your E-Rate funding request. Ciena's SLED & Healthcare Industry Advisor, Daniele Loffreda, explains.

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4 EdTech Mega-Trends Driving Change in the Classroom

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda details 4 EdTech mega-trends that are driving change -- and huge bandwidth demand -- in today's classrooms.

Today, we’re talking about digital education in general – how schools can provide it, the tech investments they need to make to support it, and how to find available public and private resources to fund the investments, including E-Rate.

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Smart Transit: Moving Beyond Points A and B

From on-board Wi-Fi to in-transit shopping and ride services, the smart rail experience of the future is a fully integrated experience and a major win for passengers. But it needs the right network to make it go. Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains.

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Winds of Change in Smart Cities?

Is your Smart City project a technology roll-out searching for a problem to solve, or does it focus first on identifying citizen issues that are best solved with technology? Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda reflects on the evolution in what he’s hearing

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Concern, Confusion and Hope Surround E-Rate Program

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda reflects on current conventional wisdom among E-rate stakeholders.

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Digital Equity in K-12 Requires a Wide Digital Highway

Ciena's Daniele Loffreda spent the week at the CoSN'17 annual conference that gathers K-12 EdTech leaders from around the U.S. Here's his report on the key themes from the show.

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Smart City Politics: Are Smart City Projects in for a Fundamental Reshape?

The changes we're seeing in the political landscape have the immediate potential to fundamentally reshape the direction of the Smart City concept, says Ciena's Daniele Loffreda. Their reliance on government funding has many municipalities

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Five K-12 Trends That Will Make Life Interesting for CIO’s in 2017

A new year and a new U.S. administration meets a K-12 technology evolution that is rolling along full steam. Will there be changes that shift EdTech in another direction, or continue along the same track?

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Defending the smart city: 3 aspects to a holistic security approach

With all the hype around Smart Cities today, you’d think they are ubiquitous. But even though there are a few high-profile examples (Barcelona, Rio, and Nice), Smart Cities

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How to Ensure Your K12 Broadband Network Makes the Grade

Did you know that annual bandwidth demand for K12 broadband networks is projected to grow 50% year over year? Daniele Loffreda, Ciena's education networks expert, details what your network needs to be ready.

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