Jürgen Hatheier

Chief Technology Officer of EMEA & APAC, Ciena

Jürgen Hatheier

Chief Technology Officer of EMEA & APAC, Ciena

Jürgen Hatheier is Chief Technology Officer of EMEA & APAC at Ciena. In this role, Jürgen is responsible for aligning Ciena’s product portfolio to the business challenges and opportunities of customers in these regions.

Where others see challenges in highly volatile and dynamic markets, Jürgen and his team of technologists are developing disruptive business models and network architectures to deliver growth for our customers. By applying the latest technologies such as 5G and FTTx, his philosophy is to better peoples’ lives by creating equal opportunities through sustainable connectivity.

With a wide range of international experience spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, Jürgen brings more than 20 years of telecommunications experience in software, hardware, and network operations to Ciena. Prior to joining Ciena, Jürgen held leadership positions in product management and R&D for ARRIS and Technetix where he served tier-1 network operators across the globe.

Jürgen holds a master’s degree in business administration and economics from Johannes Kepler University Linz and a bachelor’s degree from HTBLA Leonding in Austria.

You can find him on LinkedIn.

Insights from Jürgen Hatheier

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Diving deep on 10G-Pluggables for high speed PON

In 2020, Ciena introduced our pluggable 10G PON offering to help network operators address key opportunities in next generation Cable MSO access, 4G/5G RAN, and low-cost metro access bringing more value to the network edge through access and

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Why you need the highest level of trust in your encryption solution

In Europe, full certification from BSI is one of the top security accreditations you can get, and Ciena’s optical encryption solutions have achieved it.

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Become a hero for your customers and colleagues: how to troubleshoot and fault-fix your network faster

Understanding traffic flows across your network can be a massive help when it comes to managing routing changes and optimizing your peering. But Jürgen Hatheier, CTO EMEA at Ciena, points out that by adding performance data, and being able to

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Are you missing a major opportunity to take your network operations to the next level?

Modern IP MPLS networks are highly dynamic, which is great news in terms of handling incidents and keeping your customer-facing services online. Unfortunately, though, being ‘dynamic’ also means rapid routing changes, which create a raft of

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5 essentials for building a robust network

More traffic, critical latency-sensitive applications, and higher capacity requirements are required at the network edge. The question is, how can you seamlessly and cost-effectively transform your network, from access to metro, to intercept

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How to simplify today’s network for tomorrow’s demand

The traffic growth curve has always been steep, but the likes of 5G, IoT, and Edge Computing mean it’s going to get even more so. Today’s networks need to adapt, and here, Ciena's Jürgen Hatheier, CTO for the EMEA region, points the way forward

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5 tips to scale your network, not your complexity in 2020 and beyond

For years, increasing your capacity to meet growing demand meant adding more and bigger hardware-based platforms to your infrastructure as you needed them. Eventually, this creates a complexity that’s no longer economically sustainable. With

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7 key attributes for the new network edge

Gradual technology evolution won’t work for the multi-access edge, where new IoT apps, cloud services, and 5G services are creating torrents of traffic. To take the load, and to support new, ultra-reliable-low-latency apps, next-generation routing