Frank O. Miller

Chief Technology Officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa

Frank O. Miller

Chief Technology Officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa

Frank O. Miller is Chief Technology Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Ciena, responsible for aligning Ciena’s technology solutions to the business challenges and opportunities of customers in the region.

Frank has over 25 years of experience with previous roles as principal engineer and strategist with deep experience working with access, transport, and wireless platforms. Mr. Miller is a globally recognized technology leader and innovator with prior leadership roles in telecom, cable and academia. Before joining Ciena, Frank was Vice President of Access and Chief Architect at CenturyLink.

You can find him on LinkedIn.

Insights from Frank

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3 steps for delivering network automation at scale

To maximize the impact of network automation across all areas of your business, you’ll need passionate, skilled people, an agile development approach, and smart technologies that can map, orchestrate and automate your environment at scale,” says

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The practical road to intelligent automation

The journey to network automation begins with a single step… Big bang OSS transformation projects are slow, expensive and disruptive. Why not consider taking a ‘brick-by-brick’ approach that delivers value faster and sets you

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How IT, communications, and cloud providers can deliver the next-generation of bandwidth-hungry services

Frank Miller, CTO EMEA at Ciena, discusses how to disrupt the status quo for traffic aggregation with scalable, flexible, efficient IP and Ethernet solutions.

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What does the network of the future really look like? It’s time to find out...

“Future-proof networking is a much-used term in the industry, but what does it really mean? At Ciena, we think there are 7 key requirements for truly future-ready networking, and they can all be delivered today with the right network technologies

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Modernising networks with transformative technologies and services

How organisations can migrate from costly, complex legacy infrastructure to modern, adaptive networks that maximise operating efficiency and take exploding traffic volumes in stride.

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Delivering high-bandwidth, revenue-generating services in minutes, not months

Frank Miller, CTO EMEA at Ciena, explains how operators can automate service provisioning and turn-up to boost efficiency, and speed up time to market and revenues, from months to minutes.

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The top 6 features of a truly future-proof converged Ethernet and IP network

Frank Miller, CTO for EMEA at Ciena, details how evolving networks cost effectively with converged Ethernet and IP can help network operators keep pace with exploding traffic demands, increase network efficiency, simplify infrastructure, and deliver

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Life’s tough in the great outdoors, especially for packet-optical network gear

Most of us spend a lot of our time indoors, and it’s a pretty comfortable way to live. But spare a thought for those who work in extreme conditions, whether they’re out on oil rigs in the North Sea, fishing off Newfoundland, farming in North Wales,

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Kit outdoors, on the corner, down the street

When it comes to designing any network, success depends on the ability to keep traffic flowing freely. The key to doing this is to build large, high-capacity routes that bring traffic as close as possible to its final destination – minimizing the

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Transforming service delivery without the risk: Two key use cases from Atos and Ciena

While the goals of the network transformation agenda are clear – operators are looking for new ways to transform their network operations, boost available bandwidth, and reduce service-delivery costs – it’s often a challenge to deliver them in

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No-risk network transformation in five simple steps with Atos and Ciena

Want to transform your network but concerned about the business and technology risks? Atos and Ciena can get you there in five simple steps, says Frank Miller, CTO EMEA at Ciena.