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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...

Typically, networks have been defined and governed by their tangible properties—the hardware and...

Until recently, network functions such as firewalls and encryption have been performed on dedicated...

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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...

Web-scale networking enables providers and enterprises to seamlessly keep up with fast-paced...

vCPE transforms previously hardware-based operations into software-based virtual functions.

So, here we go again. We in the telecom industry are looking at how to transform our...

The Adaptive Network is a new approach that expands on autonomous networking concepts to transform...

Service orchestration is the execution of the operational and functional processes involved in...

Next-Generation Operations Support Systems (NGOSSs) improve on traditional OSSs with a more modern,...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a network architecture approach that enables the network to be...

The Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) applies SDN principles to WANs. SD-WAN holds the...

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

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What is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?

Network Function Virtualization, or NFV, is a way to reduce cost and accelerate service deployment for network operators by...

When Network Functions Virtualization, or NFV, came to public attention several years ago, it was...

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

Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) software converges the complete network operations lifecycle through...

Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) is a framework and architecture for automating the lifecycle...

Intelligent Automation combines software-defined control and orchestration with big data analytics,...

Ciena’s Emulation Cloud™ is a cloud-based software development environment designed to help users...

Today’s centralized cloud is comprised of more than 10,000* data centers scattered across the...

Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) replaces the proprietary infrastructure of...

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What is the “Right” Approach to Open Source?

What Is the Adaptive Network™?

What Is Service Orchestration?

What is NGOSS?

What is SDN?

What is SD-WAN?

What Is Programmable Infrastructure?

What is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?

What is NFV?

What is network monetization?

What is MCP?

What is LSO?

What Is Intelligent Automation?

What is Emulation Cloud?

What Is Edge Cloud?

What Is CORD?