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There has been a lot of focus over the past year on the virtualization of the future network, and...

With all the hype around ‘Smart’ Cities, you would think they are ubiquitous. With their many...

Enterprises are shifting more of their IT spending from private cloud to hybrid and public cloud...

Lee Doyle, Principle Analyst at Doyle Research provides an overview of SD-WAN technologies and the...

This paper explores these challenges and describes Ciena’s expertise in planning, designing, and...

Migrating away from legacy networking technologies is always a challenge but done right, the...

Ethernet as a data networking technology has been in wide use for many years, keeping pace with...

The demand for increased bandwidth is ever present. Today, transmission systems employing...

Rapid adoption of cloud technology and applications makes the metro part of the network...

Cable operators are modernizing their networks to excel at the challenges they face. The industry...

Data center providers are joining forces to meet their enterprise customers’ growing bandwidth...

This paper explains how the ability to securely deliver high-quality video makes peering...

Today's gamers are tied to a single platform, physical hardware, and long software download...

As web-scale IT is driving submarine network bandwidth consumption and growth, it is also posing...

Operators previously looking to evolve their transoceanic networks from 10G to 40G are now...

IP has been a part of every mobile generation since 2G and is exponentially more important as...

The idea of network automation is not new, but new Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based...

Information is the lifeblood of your business. It must move seamlessly and securely across the...

This paper deconstructs the conventional approach to optical power budgeting and introduces the...

Optical networks continue to evolve with greater performance and flexibility based on a foundation...

Cable operators have an aging, fragmented infrastructure that is growing increasingly expensive to...

In the next 24 months, enterprises are going to focus on further efficiency improvements from...

IHS Markit’s annual optical leadership survey is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service...

The only report of its kind, this Scorecard evaluates the top optical network equipment vendors on...

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