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Winds of Change in Smart Cities?

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda reflects on the evolution in what he’s hearing from CIOs and others in the smart city movement.

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Infobriefs

Local Government Encryption

With government remaining a high-priority target for hacking, many IT and security teams are looking to strengthen their holistic ...

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Infobriefs

Bringing Network Connectivity Up to Speed for Mod ...

The shift to remote work and the increasing reliance on digital constituent services have highlighted the importance of high-spee ...

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White Papers

Defending the Smart City

With all the hype around ‘Smart’ Cities, you would think they are ubiquitous. With their many potential threats to the network ut ...

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Videos

Managed Spares and Engineering Dispatch

Managed Spares and Engineering Dispatch to ensure replacements of failed equipment are performed quickly and accurately by our ex ...

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Infographics and posters

Powering 21

Download this infographic to learn how the evolution of education technology will have a significant impact on your broadband net ...

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Application Notes

Rethinking Campus Networks

Campus networks are undergoing a rapid evolution of user- and application-driven network capacity and utilization demands, drivin ...

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Infobriefs

Transportation Network Modernization

To overcome these growing challenges and fully capture the benefits of ITS technologies, departments of transportation need a mod ...

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Infobriefs

The Road to Resiliency: Paving the Way for Intell ...

Network optimization is an essential tactic for ensuring organizations have the on-demand connectivity, availability, and perform ...

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Application Notes

Protecting In-Flight Data: Network Encryption for ...

Modern government depends increasingly on the secure collection and distribution of information among agencies and citizens. At t ...

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Application Notes

WaveLogic Encryption Solution

Read this application note to find out more about WaveLogic Encryption, Ciena’s cost-effective, high-capacity, protocol-agnostic, ...

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Infobriefs

Ed Tech, BYOD, and Digital. Oh My!

New technologies are enabling an evolution in digital curriculum, learning analytics, and personalization of education.

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Case Studies

CDOT: Ready for the High-Tech Road

Some of the most exciting technologies for governments are being developed and deployed to improve one of the most vexing public ...

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Videos

One Maryland: Statewide Broadband Network

Ciena CEO Gary Smith joins local leaders from the state of Maryland as they talk about the impact of the newly completed Maryland ...

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Infobriefs

Residential Broadband Network Design Checklist

Residential networks are rapidly expanding to meet surging customer demand.

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Articles

U.S. broadband funding: Off to the races

The distribution of billions of dollars in U.S. federal funds towards broadband infrastructure has begun. Ciena’s Mitch Simcoe hi ...

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Articles

Why Smart Cities Need Adaptable Pipes

For cities to evolve and realize the full benefits of becoming “smart” they will require real-time access to multiple sources of ...

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Application Notes

Learning at the Speed of Light

When security, scalability, predictability, assurance, and control are critical, a private fiber network is the best solution, of ...

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Infobriefs

Smarter Roads and a Safer Transportation Future

Road networks are getting smarter, with sensors and networks helping transportation agencies manage congestion and improve safety ...

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Infobriefs

The Adaptive Network Vision webinar recap

Network providers face an unprecedented number of decisions about how to design their networks to support them well into the futu ...

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Case Studies

The Town of Dryden Delivers Rural Broadband to Dr ...

In today’s technology driven world, how people live, work, and play is becoming increasingly dependent on reliable and fast acces ...

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Articles

Smart Transit: Moving Beyond Points A and B

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains smart transit, the smart rail experience of the future is a fully integrated experience.

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Articles

Reopen, reimagine and redesign: how a “virtualize ...

As more employees work remotely, state governments are considering how to best support a more dispersed workforce, while still me ...

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Articles

Tomorrow's cities: evolving from "smart" to Adapt ...

Cities are going smart – trying to deal with the proliferation of people, sensors, automobiles and a range of devices that demand ...

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