Francisco Sant’Anna
Senior Advisor, Solutions Marketing
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Francisco Sant’Anna is a Senior Advisor of Solutions Marketing at Ciena, with global responsibility for Ciena’s 5G Network Solutions and the Communication Service Providers (CSP) segment. Francisco is a Telecommunications Engineer with a Master in Telecommunication Systems and MBA. For 20 years he led marketing, engineering, and business development teams in the CSP industry, before joining Ciena’s marketing organization.
Insights from Francisco Sant’Anna
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Beyond broadband: Monetizing your fiber investments
With new demand and investments, broadband service providers must ensure they get the most out of network investments. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna explains how to maximize your network flexibility to adapt and capture new business opportunities.
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Trends and Insights from Heavy Reading's 5G Network Strategies Operator Survey
Heavy Reading recently published its 5G Network Strategies Operator Survey results. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna digs into the numbers and what they mean for the future evolution of 5G transport networks.
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A practical vision for rolling out 5G networks
When a leading global service provider was looking to roll out its 5G network infrastructure, a next-gen cell-site router was a key piece of the puzzle. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna details the key considerations and requirements that went into
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5G network design is full of challenges, but there are resources to make it less daunting
Mobile Network Operators must balance the daunting challenges of profitability, urgency, and uncertainty as they roll out 5G networks and services. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna details these challenges and highlights ten principles to consider
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5G and Edge Cloud: joining forces to fuel next-generation applications
5G, cloud, and edge computing are among the hottest topics in the technology industry. In an era of converging technologies, innovations in these areas are closely connected, creating synergies and mutual acceleration. Ciena’s Francisco
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Network planning in times of acceleration and uncertainty
Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna highlights 5 consistent best practices operators should consider when designing and planning their networks.
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Mobile backhaul: a key growth driver to fuel fiber investments
Francisco Sant’Anna explains how regional providers can leverage carrier wholesale demand to enable profitable and sustainable fiber investments.
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Regional service providers must evolve to deliver the digital experience users demand
The digital experience users enjoy with cloud-based services is becoming a prerequisite for any technology service offering. Regional providers will need to evolve to deliver more in the areas of visibility, control, and flexibility in order to be
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How regional providers can increase customer satisfaction with smarter IP troubleshooting
The data network has become the lifeline for businesses – so speed and accuracy in diagnosing application or service-affecting network issues is critical to provide excellent service. Learn how route analytics can be deployed easily to speed
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Digital disruption: how it's impacting regional service providers
Emerging digital technologies and business models are transforming most industries at an increasingly fast pace. There is no business immune to the ongoing digital disruption, but there is certainly no sector as impacted by it as Technology Services.
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Grow smarter by leveraging your existing infrastructure to keep pace with rising bandwidth demands
Networks are experiencing explosive bandwidth growth, and technology service providers are the first to face its impact. From the access to the core, pressure for increasing capacity is unprecedented, stressing existing infrastructure and CAPEX