Marie Fiala
Director of Portfolio Marketing
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Marie Fiala is Director of Portfolio Marketing at Ciena, where she focuses on driving customer business value through market adoption of software innovations. With over 30 years in the telecom industry, Marie’s experience spans software start-ups and large multi-national companies, in global marketing, strategic planning, program delivery, and product development roles. You can find her on Twitter at @marie_fiala or on LinkedIn.
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Automate network operations smarter and faster with agentic AI
The race is on to advance Generative AI (GenAI) models so they can be applied creatively to a slew of use cases to make our lives easier. This is also readily apparent in the network operations space. Ciena’s Marie Fiala discusses how AI
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All the benefits of multi-vendor, converged networks without the operational headaches
The IP/Optical convergence trend is in full swing, yet there continue to be challenges on the network operations side. Lack of coordination across IP and optical operations is not only inefficient but also could cause network faults. Ciena’s Marie
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Simplified management of multi-vendor, converged IP/optical networks – it can be done
Service providers want to simplify their network operations in order to drive efficiencies, but their strategies for managing coherent pluggables vary. Ciena’s Marie Fiala describes the cutting-edge proof-of-concept conducted by Ciena and BT Group
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Looking to transform your network and service operations with AI? Let our experts guide you.
Tim Pearson and Kailem Anderson discuss some of Ciena’s innovative AIOps use cases, and how AI, including ML and GenAI, significantly enhance network and service operations for our customers.
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Guiding the way to simplified operations – Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite achieves TIP’s Optical SDN Controller SBI Compliance
Once again, we’re pleased to announce an open standards compliance for Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite (formerly known as MCP). Our software has been awarded the Bronze Badge for compliance to TIP OOPT MUST Optical SDN Controller SBI
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Interoperability and innovation go hand-in-hand: Ciena’s MCP achieves TIP’s Optical SDN Controller NBI Compliance
We’re pleased to announce that Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller has been awarded TIP’s Bronze Badge for compliance to MUST Optical SDN Controller NBI requirements. Ciena’s Marie Fiala explains why this is important to
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7 invaluable ways to keep your submarine network operations water-tight
How can real-time analytics unlock new benefits to help you build and manage an ultra-resilient submarine network that exceeds your customers' connectivity needs? Ciena’s Marie Fiala explains.
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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an awesome consumer experience!
Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent network control, network operations teams would have a challenge in keeping multi-layer high-capacity networks running
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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an awesome consumer experience!
Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent network control, network operations teams would have a challenge in keeping multi-layer high-capacity networks running
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Adaptive IP Apps to the rescue
Marie Fiala describes how Ciena’s Adaptive IP Apps come to the rescue by dramatically speeding up troubleshooting and resolution of IP network issues – and can even help mitigate them in the first place!
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Strengthen your advantage with Emulation Cloud and MCP Services to come out the winner
In this final blog of the 4-part MCP Applications series, Marie Fiala describes the resources at your disposal to integrate, deploy and adopt intelligent network control into your holistic network operations.
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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another winning MCP Application
Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala explains how Ciena’s PlannerPlus provides the needed flexibility to design, plan and deploy network and service
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Doubling down on domain control with real-time intelligence
Would you like the ability to complete your operational tasks quicker and more accurately, across multi-layer, multi-vendor networks? Marie Fiala explains how that is possible – with Ciena’s Advanced Apps.
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The winning hand in your network operations transformation: MCP Applications
How is Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan offering taking network operations to a new level of intelligent software control and automation? Ciena’s Marie Fiala explains.
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Federation: Building the single source of truth for your network
Australia-based service provider Telstra International shares how they have dramatically simplified management of network resources with a new, dynamic inventory management system based on Blue Planet Inventory.
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Today’s virtual world is making inroads into the 5G world
Over the last months, we’ve all adapted to new ways of working, socializing, and living, as coronavirus pandemic precautions have been instituted across the globe. The relative ease with which our communications networks have dealt with the
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Move over technology, it’s all about customer experience
At last week’s SDN & NFV World Congress, the event that ushered in SDN and NFV technologies back in 2012, it was acknowledged that software control and virtualization have matured to the point that they are now considered table stakes in today’s
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Operations on the move at DTW 2019
Traditionally, OSS has been seen as lagging when it came to software innovations, playing catch-up after new technologies have well progressed on the adoption curve. That was far from the case at last week’s Digital Transformation World, where the
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AI Ops: Let the data talk
The catalysts and ROI of AI-powered network analytics for automated operations were the focus of discussion for service providers at the recent FutureNet conference in London. Blue Planet’s Marie Fiala details the conversation.
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Will Automation in the Clouds Propel the Winds of SDN and NFV?
Five years after the advent of SDN and NFV, their adoption is far from mainstream. Automation is the missing link, says Ciena's Marie Fiala.
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Lessons from #TMFLive: How the Pace of Operations Drives Digital Success
At last week’s TM Forum Live! event, executives did not shy away from the topic of rethinking their business models in order to achieve increased company valuation.
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Software-Defined Control – Brought to You by the Letter C
SDN is an enabling technology for network transformation, but it is not a one-size-fits-all model. Models vary based on the current and future needs ofoperators.
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Visualizing the Future of Networking
Ciena has unveiled Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), providing real-time software control and advanced visualization across Ciena’s packet and packet optical portfolios.
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Blog Series | Transform your network operations with Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications
Did you know Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to boost business agility and supercharge multi-layer network operations to exceptional levels of operational efficiency?