Government & Public Sector Networks Expert - Renee Reinke

3 R&E Network Innovations Changing Lives for the Greater Good

Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three developing network innovations that are enabling the R&E community to make a meaningful impact by facilitating collaboration of students, educators and scientists across the globe to further education and

High Performance Computing (HPC) is transforming the world. But for all their power, supercomputers need to be connected to be leveraged for innovation. Next week's SC15 conference in Austin is the place to learn all about the great innovations

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3 Key Research Trends Poised to Change Our Lives

Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three key trends in research enabled by supercomputing and the networks that connect them that will change our daily lives in the very near future.

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What will research networks look like in 2020?

With their need to share massive amounts of research data with other institutions around the globe, research networks often live on the front edge of what’s possible with networking technology. They many times serve as a beacon that

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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: A pragmatic approach to R&E network evolution

While SDN orchestrates and optimizes the network resources, the increasing demand for capacity will continue to drive the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure that can meet growing bandwidth demands, says Ciena’s...

We talk to Jeff Verrant, VP & GM of Ciena’s Government Solutions group, about the challenges and opportunities today's government networks face...ranging from budget and cybersecurity to the current status of SDN and NFV trials and deployments. Jeff

Modernization of government networks is top of mind in every agency. As is often the case in today’s complex security landscape, flexibility is pitted against security when it comes to network infrastructure, especially when it comes to updating and

Cybersecurity has become the number one topic in both the situation room and the boardroom. Because today’s conventional networks are not designed to support the security required in the cyber age, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is quickly

Many R&E network operators are actively exploring software defined networking (SDN) to optimize network resources and enable dynamic scale of network resources, allowing applications and users to program the network as a virtual resource,

SDN is being touted as the golden ticket that can solve any problem; and everyone has a ready-made solution just for you. But just because everyone has a golden ticket doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a smooth ride through the SDN chocolate