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4 Reasons Enterprises Love SD-WAN
Lee Doyle of Doyle Research explains why SD-WAN services are so attractive to enterprises, and what service providers can do to r ...
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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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The Arrival of Open Utility Networks
The utility industry is undergoing a comprehensive transformation as it modernizes to a more efficient and smarter grid. Because ...
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Busting a few myths about microservices
The topic of microservices architectures for application development is getting a lot of attention. We highlight some of the myth ...
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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
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Automation’s necessity for full 5G deployments
As service providers in the Asia-Pacific region race to deploy 5G, software and new network intelligence will be critical to ensu ...
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Blue Orbit: Best-of-Breed Building Blocks
Ciena Blue Planet has today added six new members to our Blue Orbit Ecosystem. Unlike other partner programs, 100% of the partner ...
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9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet
Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet
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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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NFV/SDN eBook: The Perfect Storm of Opportunity i ...
Get your questions answered with Ciena's new NFV and SDN Guide for Carriers and Service Providers, with 35+ pages of insights fro ...
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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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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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Up your IQ: Top 3 signs it’s time to deploy SDN a ...
Get up-to-speed on the Essentials of NFV and SDN with two experts from Ciena's Blue Planet team, and in additional you'll get a f ...
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Ciena’s innovative portfolio drives leadership po ...
Omdia’s 2020 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard highlights Ciena’s continued optical innovation, new portfolio introductio ...
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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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Will Automation in the Clouds Propel the Winds of ...
Five years after the advent of SDN and NFV, their adoption is far from mainstream. Automation is the missing link, says Ciena's M ...
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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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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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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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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 ...