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Ready for Fast and Unpredictable Change: How the ...
This paper is based on a nationwide CDG 2020 survey of nearly 100 state and local government IT leaders across government agencie ...
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Omdia: Future proofing optical networks with next ...
The proliferation of next-gen ROADMs is accelerating as network operators are beginning to understand the benefits of using wavel ...
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Practical Considerations for Near-Zero Margin Net ...
This paper examines this trend from the equipment design point of view and applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the problem of ...
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The Adaptive Network: A Framework for Understandi ...
From individual users binge-watching Over-The-Top video services to enterprises deploying Software as a Service, cloud services a ...
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Satellite Communications Market Growth
Ciena's Blue Planet software helps teleport operators overcome the myriad technical and business challenges they currently and co ...
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The Importance of Military Satellite Communication
Space Force ground stations are being challenged to manage ever more satellites, bandwidth, mission-critical applications, and se ...
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Get Ready for 5G. Deliver IP Differently.
The success of any next-generation network implementation depends on an extremely efficient IP network that delivers standards-ba ...
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Omdia: 2020 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Score ...
This Scorecard evaluates the top optical network equipment vendors on criteria using concrete data and metrics, including direct ...
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Inventory as a Cyber Security Foundation
This paper examines some ways organizations attempt to manage inventory. It reviews three primary methods, their strengths and we ...
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self optimizing fabric wp
This paper examines how self-optimizing fabrics forming a nervous system for the world of interconnected smart things could help ...
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Broadband Success Partners: Cable Operators & ...
Broadband Success Partners interviewed 24 cable executives from network engineering and business services to capture their insigh ...
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Omdia: 800G Technology - Does Double Capacity Mea ...
Read the report to learn how 800G technology brings performance improvements, expanded capacity, and more cost-effective solution ...
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IHS Markit: 2019 Optical Equipment Vendor Leaders ...
This year’s survey report covers and elaborates on hot topics within the industry like Data Center Interconnect, optical network ...
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Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report January 2020
Although few cablecos have actually deployed Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) technology en masse yet, it's viewed by many c ...
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Gaming at the Cloud Edge
Today's gamers are tied to a single platform, physical hardware, and long software download times. But gamers are demanding more ...
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Why the time is now to transition TDM to IP
As legacy TDM networks reach end-of-life status, coupled with support personnel becoming increasingly scarce, service providers a ...
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Heavy Reading: The Transformation Choice - Data C ...
As the explosion of data continues, distributed cloud-native applications will dictate how and where data centers are built and d ...
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High-capacity Optical Link Budgeting for Next-gen ...
This paper deconstructs the conventional approach to optical power budgeting and introduces the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) as a ...
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A Model for Business Case Analysis of C/L-band Ne ...
This white paper presents a model for the analysis of C/L-band business cases, with the objective of enabling network operators
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Laying the 5G Foundation with an Evolved Mobile T ...
Mobile Network Operators are embarking on a phased deployment of 5G. This paper discusses how to build the foundation, what it mu ...
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IHS Markit: 2019 Optical Vendor Scorecard Ciena E ...
This IHS Markit Scorecard evaluates the top global optical network equipment vendors. This particular 2019 ‘excerpt’ report was p ...
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The Converged Interconnect Network
Ciena’s Fiber Deep Solution for the Converged Interconnect Network enables architectural and service convergence over a common CI ...
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Network Automation WP | Ciena
This white paper summarizes the quantitative and qualitative findings and how cable MSOs can use this information as they pursue ...
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New Network Design for Transporting 5G Converged ...
Holistically speaking, a mobile network is a massive wireline network with radios hanging off its edges.