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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of...

As 2016 comes to a close, we take a look back at the biggest news from a big year here at Ciena.

Bo Gowan, Ciena's social media leader, details the top news and announcements from a busy year in...

Did you know that satellites only carry a miniscule fraction of the global international data...

GeoMesh Extreme is an open network architecture that integrates the best in hardware, software, and...

Internet speed is no longer merely nice to have. It’s a requirement. Along with speed, customers...

Data centers are growing at an unprecedented rate. There are already 7,500 around the globe, so...

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When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing...

It’s been 50 years since Gordon Moore came up with what’s now known as “Moore’s Law” and since...

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What is ZR+?

The requirement for point-to-point, single-span DCI links is addressed by the 400ZR Implementation Agreement (IA) from the...

Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a fiber-optic transmission technique that enables the use...

Without submarine networks, the global Internet that we all know, use, and utterly depend on...

GeoMesh Extreme is an end-to-end network architecture, overland and undersea, that unites hardware,...

Programmable infrastructure is a highly instrumented packet and optical infrastructure that...

Also commonly called ‘digital wrapper,’ OTN—or Optical Transport Networking—is a next-generation,...

Optical encryption is a means of securing in-flight data in the transport layer of the network as...

Network monetization is a structured design and analytical approach to ensure that service...

Liquid Spectrum™ combines variable bit-rate coherent optics, a flexible grid reconfigurable...

As the industry continues to push the boundaries of optical transmission speeds, the concept ......

At its most basic, coherent optical transmission is a technique that uses modulation of the...

Submarine cables deployed on ocean floors around the world carry nearly 100 percent of the world’s...

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What is 400ZR?

Aimed predominantly at short-reach, single-span fiber optic links for Data Center Interconnect (DCI), 400ZR is an interoperable...

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WaveLogic Encryption brings effortless in-flight...

Ciena has today unveiled...

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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure:...

While SDN orchestrates and optimizes the network resources, the increasing demand for capacity will continue to drive the need...

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Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM...

Ciena’s annual Vectors event in Ottawa never disappoints when it comes to fresh ideas, collaboration, and the all around...

Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration...

Latest Redefining optical networks Articles

Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of...

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Why Submarine Networking?

Why GeoMesh Extreme?

Why Fiber Deep?

Why DCI?

When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing...

What is ZR+?

What is WDM or DWDM?

What is submarine networking?

What Is GeoMesh Extreme?

What Is Programmable Infrastructure?

What is OTN?

What is optical encryption?

What is network monetization?

What Is Liquid Spectrum?

What is Gridless Networking?

What is coherent optics?

What is a wet data center?

What is 400ZR?

WaveLogic Encryption brings effortless in-flight...

Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure:...

Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM...

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