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Delivering true 5G: are we ready?

We discussed with Ciena’s Joe Marsella how mobile and wholesale network operators are gearing up to capitalize on the benefits an ...

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Ciena’s 2018 Holiday Bundle is Here!

Spend your downtime this holiday season applying the collective knowledge of some of the world’s best and brightest minds in tele ...

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7 Steps to Big Data Analytics and AI

Operators are turning to big data tools and analytics to analyze the vast amounts of information they’re accumulating in data lak ...

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On the Submarine Network Horizon in 2019

Submarine networking operators continue to need new innovations in order to meet the evolving needs of this critical infrastructu ...

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Ciena Emulation Cloud: A 12-Month Report Card

From cloud-based network lab validation to API training to multi-vendor introp testing, Ciena’s new Emulation Cloud environment h ...

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Gearing-up Cable MSOs for the move up-market

U.S. MSOs were experiencing double-digit business services growth; however, did you know that growth has slowed in recent years? ...

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3 Key Research Trends Poised to Change Our Lives

Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three key trends in research enabled by supercomputing and the networks that connect them that wi ...

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How governments can solve layer 3 network complex ...

What if government agencies could monitor and analyze their IP networks to ensure peak efficiency and service continuity—all whil ...

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Network planning in times of acceleration and unc ...

Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna highlights 5 consistent best practices operators should consider when designing and planning their ne ...

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Survey: Network operators still see silos with SD ...

Perceived vendor silos are still an issue for network operators looking to move to SDN/NFV for service virtualization. That’s jus ...

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A packet networking blueprint, designed for 2020 ...

Supporting new and emerging high-growth applications requires rethinking how to modernize existing networks, according to Ciena’s ...

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Software-Defined Control – Brought to You by the ...

SDN is an enabling technology for network transformation, but it is not a one-size-fits-all model. Models vary based on the curre ...

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Closing the Loop: Ciena closes acquisition of Cen ...

Ciena has officially closed the acquisition of Centina Systems, which will be integrated into our Blue Planet division. Kailem An ...

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What is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offloads network functions into software that runs on industry-standard hardware and can be ...

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12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...

As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...

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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Septemb ...

This week, we're sharing 5 things from a CX Award judge, helping you ensure your network analytics solution can drive intelligent ...

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Applying the “Chicken or the Egg” theory to TOSCA ...

I was recently with a group of colleagues discussing network automation for an upcoming webinar, clearly a top-of-mind topic for ...

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5 outcomes our Ciena Optimization Service brings ...

Need more comprehensive visibility into your network infrastructure? Tim Wilson details how Ciena Optimization Service can help b ...

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Five key APIs to enable the concept of SDN-based ...

Ciena's Fady Masoud details the APIs that enable SDN-based virtual networks and help accelerate the evolution toward open cloud n ...

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Multi-Layer Networks? Intelligent Multi-Layer Orc ...

There are many challenges that service providers must deal with in multi-layer networks. A majority of them stem from the lack of ...

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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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IHS Markit releases latest service provider optic ...

In IHS Markit’s new service provider survey, Ciena came out as a leader across multiple categories, including Top Optical Transmi ...

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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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Two tools to help visualize and simplify your dat ...

Amidst the rising complexity of networks, and influx of data, service providers are striving to keep operational complexity under ...

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