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Automating the WAN with SDN – Avoiding “Hurry Up ...

“Hurry up and wait!” Too often, this is how pioneers in NFV-based services feel with WAN connectivity that takes weeks to be prov ...

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Q&A with Ron Kline: Predicting the Pace of Ch ...

Ciena's Ron Kline shares his perspective on the many factors that affect the pace of change in our industry and how companies mus ...

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12 Mind-Blowing Data Center Facts You Need to Know

These 12 mind-blowing facts about the world's data centers will have your head spinning.

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Why “network slicing” is the key to 5G network ad ...

The 5G bandwidth promise is a whopping 10Gbps to each end user. But what would someone actually do with this amount of bandwidth?

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Karl Horne Q&A: MDSO is the Key to Rolling wi ...

Karl Horne—Ciena’s CTO for the Asia Pacific region —explains how multi-domain service orchestration (MDSO) is crucial to helping ...

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3 Classroom Tech Trends Impacting Your Education ...

With classroom and educational technology usage exploding, it’s time to examine three tech trends that are going to have a signif ...

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Ciena Announces Reporting Date and Web Broadcast ...

Ciena® Corporation (NYSE: CIEN) expects to announce results for its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, 2016 on Thursday, Septemb ...

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Modern Utilities Need Modern Networks

Today’s grid operations run on unsustainable 25-year-old SONET/SDH network technology. Download this infographic to learn how you ...

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Ciena Expands Blue Orbit Ecosystem to Strengthen ...

Adds 30 new industry leaders, including Akamai, Ammeon, Check Point, EMC, Netrounds, ON.Lab and Sytel Reply

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Blue Planet Q&A: Services, SDN, and NFV

Ciena's Joe Cumello and Pamela Morgan talk to Telecom Ramblings about their experiences rolling out our Blue Planet portfolio wit ...

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Realizing the Digital Age: Why connecting the pla ...

Most of us share the firmly-held belief that by connecting the planet we will truly transform the world and improve both producti ...

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The Evolution of Ciena.com…and Happy Birthday to ...

We look back at Ciena.com over the years and acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the launch of the world's first website.

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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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eww ITandTEL Upgrades Nationwide Network with Cie ...

Monetisation of utility network for high-capacity wholesale services and business applications across Austria and neighbouring co ...

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Protecting $10 Trillion Worth of Transactions, Ev ...

Back in 2010, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Reliability of Global Undersea Cable Communications Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) re ...

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Nothing but Growth for UK Virtualisation Market A ...

What did a recent study of UK business demand for virtual IT services and NFV reveal? The results may surprise you.

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Virtualised Services Reach Tipping Point – Two Th ...

93 per cent of British businesses prefer a mix of best-of-breed, interoperable virtual solutions and partners to architect their ...

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Ciena Powers Zayo’s Managed Encryption Service

Zayo Group announced that it is using Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption solution to deliver the enhanced network security increasingly ...

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MobiFone Builds High-Capacity Network Powered by ...

Flexible backbone network spans more than 1,400 kilometers across Vietnam

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Agile DCI: The Key to the Data Center Operator (D ...

If you’re working in Data Center Interconnect (DCI) services, then opportunity is about to come knocking.

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The Story Behind the First Reliable Trans-Atlanti ...

Learn the history of the first reliable subsea cable across the Atlantic in 1866 and how fast transmission speed has improved ove ...

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Ciena CEO Gary Smith: Is the Digital Revolution t ...

For all the talk of a “digital revolution” we have yet to see anywhere near the same economic growth or impact as past inustrial ...

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Is SDN the Golden Ticket? Only if you know how to ...

Just because everyone has a golden ticket doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a smooth ride through the SDN chocolate factory.

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Multi-Terabit Submarine Cables… Too Big to Fail?

Report in 2010 found that nearly 100 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic is carried by the ...

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