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Coherent ELS

Ciena's Coherent ELS delivers scale and high-capacity coherent DWDM to the edge in a compact, hardened form factor with unprecede ...

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Articles

Introducing WaveLogic 6: Another industry first f ...

1.6 Terabit wavelengths. 800G everywhere. 800G pluggables delivering 1000 km reaches. Seems impossible? Don’t ever tell that to a ...

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Podcasts

Episode 18: Ciena Announces WaveLogic 5

Scott McFeely and Dino DiPerna take listeners behind-the-scenes on Ciena’s latest technology breakthrough – WaveLogic 5

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Videos

Ciena talks to Lightwave at OFC'17

Joe Cumello, Ciena's VP of Global Marketing, talks to Lightwave from the show floor of OFC'17 and details the company's innovatio ...

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Articles

The Advent of Open Submarine Networks

Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...

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Webinars

Optimizing Performance in High Speed Networks

In this webinar, Ciena, a leading provider of telecommunications equipment, and EXFO, a well-established supplier of test and mea ...

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Articles

4 New OTN Use Cases for Today’s Networks

Optical networking dynamics are changing. Read the 4 new OTN use cases for today’s networks.

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Articles

Meet the People who brought 400G to Optical

How do you deliver innovation that brings tremendous value to customers 1 year earlier? You use a team that has done it before wi ...

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Application Notes

Grow Smarter by Leveraging Existing Infrastructure

Network designers and engineers are left with the complex challenge of conceiving solutions that deliver a lot more for much less ...

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Articles

Coherent optical turns 10: Here’s how it was made

This is the story of how a team of over 100 people in Ciena's R&D labs pulled together an impressive collection of technology inn ...

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Articles

Why ROADM architectures make sense for your DCI n ...

Simple, point-to-point data center interconnect networks are the norm, so why are network operators considering ROADM for their m ...

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Articles

The Metro gets a brand new 100G architecture opti ...

Traditionally, operators have had to choose between two types of photonic architectures when deploying an optical network: a pass ...

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Articles

Ciena’s top 5 resources to help you prepare for t ...

May 25th is fast approaching and with it the deadline for the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to be enforced a ...

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Articles

Why Packet/OTN Switching is making its way into m ...

Once just a technology for big service provider networks, Packet/OTN Switching is now making its way into Enterprise Metro networ ...

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Case Studies

Generating Advanced Connectivity for the Israel E ...

Israel Electric Corporation will utilize Ciena’s Manage, Control & Plan software for unified network management and end-to-end se ...

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Application Notes

Craving Bandwidth? Grow Smarter by Leveraging You ...

Networks are experiencing explosive bandwidth growth, and technology service providers are the first to face its impact. Ciena de ...

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Press Releases

CANARIE Expands 100G Research & Education Net ...

Ciena announces that CANARIE has deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with third-generation WaveLogic

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Press Releases

Ciena Teams with Academy Achievers to Address Edu ...

Ciena has partnered with Academy Achievers to help close the digital and educational gap among students interested in STEM careers

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Articles

Ciena’s new ‘Smart Raman’ provides Raman gain wit ...

Ciena has recently introduced an innovative new Raman solution that eliminates the pain points of previous Raman products and eve ...

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Articles

Do enterprises have to use ‘TruckerNet’ to migrat ...

The initial migration of enterprise data to the cloud can be a massive undertaking involving Terabytes (even Petabytes) of data. ...

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Press Releases

East Kentucky Network Turns to Ciena for Next-Gen ...

East Kentucky Network has selected converged packet optical solutions from Ciena to increase network capacity and provide greater ...

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Press Releases

Hennepin County Medical Center Taps Ciena to Adva ...

Hennepin County Medical Center recently built a private network leveraging Ciena's converged packet-optical solutions to support ...

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Press Releases

Colt the first to bring 400GE optical services to ...

Colt Technology Services has announced the availability of its new 400GE Wave and Private Wave services, making it the first telc ...

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Press Releases

Ciena’s Waveserver Ai Delivers Unprecedented Leve ...

Ciena has introduced Waveserver Ai, bringing industry-leading capacity and power efficiencies to data center interconnect (DCI) a ...

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