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Converging and Automating 5G Networks

Ciena offers a complete, open solution, allowing MNOs and wholesale operators to build best-in-breed 5G networks for competitive ...

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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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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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Realize New Services in an Instant with a Distrib ...

This paper discusses some of the important features of D-NFV that enterprises need to know before getting started with NFV.

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Ciena Virtualized Edge Solution – Enterprises

Most enterprises understand that, after virtualizing their IT assets, the virtualization of their network assets is the next step ...

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Ciena Virtualized Edge Solution – Service Provide ...

The Ciena Virtualized Edge Solution is specifically designed to help service providers successfully implement a virtualized netwo ...

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Securing the Cloud

Rolling out a comprehensive security plan can be challenging. Fortunately, optical layer encryption provides first-level defense ...

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Residential Broadband for Utilities

Utilities need a modern, sustainable network that can deliver both residential broadband and smart grid services to the communiti ...

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Converged OT/IT Intelligence

Real-time, self-discovering, self-healing, self-configuring networks are becoming reality. This new intelligence allows network o ...

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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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Residential Broadband for Cable/MSOs

Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution is designed to deliver the openness, modularity, and scalability Cable/MSOs require to est ...

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Ethernet Services for Healthcare

Healthcare providers of all sizes, from hospital systems, medical centers et al, are under pressure to improve quality of & acces ...

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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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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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Enabling a Bigger and Smarter Network with Ciena' ...

Ciena has developed WaveLogic 3, a technology foundation for the industry’s first intelligent transceiver. WaveLogic 3 makes it p ...

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Securing Critical Infrastructure

Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution combines a high degree of flexibility and security with ease of operation and administratio ...

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Simplifying Optical Networking through Adaptive, ...

Bandwidth demands are exploding in a variety of applications, and network operators are struggling to scale network capacity to p ...

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Residential Broadband for Municipal Governments

Ciena’s Residential Broadband Solution—open, modular, and scalable by design—leverages innovative broadband architecture and prov ...

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Modernizing IP and Ethernet Aggregation

This application note details how enterprises can upgrade end-of-life aggregation networks with the latest-generation routing and ...

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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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Liquid Spectrum: Transforming Static Optical Netw ...

Ciena's Liquid Spectrum changes the way optical networks are engineered, operated, and monetized. It enables systems that are bot ...

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Ultra-Low Latency Packet WAN For Utilities

SEL and Ciena have validated the ultra-low-latency packet WAN solution that meets and beats the industry standard for latency and ...

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Transform Large-Scale Science Collaboration

Ciena’s Science DMZ solution provides universities and research labs scalable, flexible high-capacity transfer of massive data fl ...

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MACsec Line-rate security for high-speed networks

The growing adoption of Ethernet and the need to secure data at line rate makes MACsec critical to meeting the performance and se ...

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