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MEF16: We have a winner!

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet division details the multi-vendor Proof of Concept demo the team conducted with CenturyLink and ...

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A look back on doing good in 2023

We’re looking back on all the good our Ciena team members did for our communities and our planet in 2023.

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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Packet Design

Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of Packet Design. Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson details how the integration of the ...

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Helping kids walk with the CHEO Foundation

Learn how our Ciena team in Ottawa donated a life-changing robot walker and continue to support CHEO, a global leader in pediatri ...

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Virtualize Your Submarine Cable

Ongoing growth in subsea bandwidth demand has the industry looking for new technologies that can further expand submarine cable c ...

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Innovation and Collaboration: Researching AI with ...

Discover how a collaboration between our research and development team and the University of Ottawa led to innovative new breakth ...

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Ciena Completes Acquisition of DonRiver

Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of DonRiver. Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson details how the integration of these ne ...

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Tafari Shambe Forges His Own Path While Paying It ...

Tafari Shambe Forges His Own Path While Paying It Forward at Ciena

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4 Things We Learned at #OFC17

From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...

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Closing digital gaps and empowering students in t ...

Ivan Polizzi, Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific, shares how we are teaming up with companies acro ...

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When time is money, banks can’t afford a network ...

To deliver a higher quality customer experience, banks of all sizes are deploying innovative digital applications and partnering ...

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Career insights: Supporting our people in explori ...

At Ciena, we encourage and support our people in pursuing their passions. Carla Martinez, Leader of Diversity, Equity, and Inclus ...

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A Guide to Avoiding Automation Islands

Autonomous networking is all the rage. Networking vendors are touting their automation visions, and service providers are creatin ...

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Ciena Ottawa engineers 3D print components for Co ...

Ciena’s mechanical engineering and NPI teams, already on the lookout for ways to support health care workers, stepped up help the ...

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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 ac ...

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Retail Digitization… Friend or Foe?

The online world is acting as a disruptor to the retail industry. But the same tools that allow consumers to become increasingly ...

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CienaLife: Representation matters - HBCU grads sh ...

Two Ciena employees discuss their experiences at HBCUs to Celebrate Black History Month.

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Working at Ciena as a US Army Senior Officer: How ...

Fahad Digankar is a technical account manager on the Ciena government sales team who shared his experience balancing his military ...

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Virtualizing the World of Cable

It’s not surprising that cable operators are virtualizing their networks. Not only is it the logical step to reduce power and sav ...

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From big lasers to small lasers: How Ciena helped ...

Algonquin College is home to the only photonics lab of its kind in the world all thanks to a substantial upgrade and sponsorship ...

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What is Distributed NFV and why do you need it?

Ciena's Brian Lavallée introduces the concept of Distributed NFV, or D-NFV, and why service providers are increasingly looking at ...

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SC17: Super Networks for Super Computers

The SC17 conference provides a perfect opportunity to experience the intersection of high-performance computing with high-perform ...

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DISH Expands First-of-its-Kind Cloud-Native 5G Ne ...

DISH Network Corporation selected Ciena’s Blue Planet automation software to accelerate 5G services on the United States’ first c ...

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Being a Catalyst of Industry Change

Ciena's Sam Torrente details how Ciena Blue Planet and DGIT Systems worked together to create an award-winning solution using ope ...

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