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What is Gridless Networking?
What is gridless networking? Brian Lavallée, who heads up submarine networks industry marketing for Ciena, provides some insight.
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Introducing the 2-slot Ciena 6500 Packet-Optical ...
Last month, Ciena made a big announcement dubbed “Intelligent Infrastructure” that detailed the strategic evolution of our packet ...
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Cycle Slips: Not all coherent technology is creat ...
With more than ten years of development behind us, Ciena has engineered our coherent products from the ground up to eliminate fai ...
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Comcast's new Metro Ethernet service using Ciena ...
Comcast is using Ciena Carrier Ethernet gear to provide Metro Ethernet services to customers in more than 20 major markets across ...
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The real value of Managed Services: More than jus ...
Managed services done right is proactive monitoring, maintenance, and operations beyond keeping the basic reactive
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Ciena Honored by AT&T as Outstanding Supplier
Commitment to excellence over the past year has earned Ciena® Corporation, recognition as an outstanding supplier to AT&T Inc., o ...
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Sprint Boosts Fiber-Optic Network Capacity 1,600 ...
Sprint announces that it has installed optical wavelength division multiplexing technology from industry leader Ciena Corporation ...
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CIENA Corporation Introduces 16 Channel Dense Wav ...
Ciena Corporation formally announced today the introduction of the Ciena MultiWaveTM 1600 Transmission System.
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12 Questions Answered on 5G Networks
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée, talks 5G rollouts and how ultimate success will depend MNOs making sure that they have fiber in place for ...
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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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Why Smart Cities Need Adaptable Pipes
For cities to evolve and realize the full benefits of becoming “smart” they will require real-time access to multiple sources of ...
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CienaLife: Career insights for new grads
Members of Ciena’s Marketing and Sales Development Program share their tips and experiences.
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CienaLife: Recap of our company-wide volunteer day
Here's a recap of Ciena volunteer efforts on the company-wide volunteer day.
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Baking accessibility into our DNA—greater access ...
Ciena puts those with disabilities at the forefront of user experience and website accessibility to enhance Ciena’s commitment to ...
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7 key attributes for the new network edge
Gradual technology evolution won’t work for the multi-access edge, where new IoT apps, cloud services, and 5G services are creati ...
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Primer: What is mobile fronthaul?
Our expert Brian Lavallée explains both mobile backhaul and fronthaul and how they address the growing challenge of helping trans ...
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Unifying legacy and modern packet-based services
Within the last decade, TDM to IP modernization is no longer a question of “if” but rather “when”, as converging legacy and moder ...
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Tomorrow's cities: evolving from "smart" to Adapt ...
Cities are going smart – trying to deal with the proliferation of people, sensors, automobiles and a range of devices that demand ...
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5G wireless needs fiber, and lots of it
Ciena's Brian Lavallée explains that 5G mobile networks will significantly affect both the wireless side (obviously!) and the wir ...
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Choosing your 4G to 5G network evolution partner
The complexity and scale of 4G to 5G network evolution means you need the right partner, not just a supplier, to support you ever ...
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How much bandwidth does Broadcast HD video use?
One of the most often cited reasons for the global explosion in bandwidth demand is the significant rise in video traffic, and sp ...
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Standards-based IP Connectivity, Delivered Differ ...
In this podcast Ciena and Heavy Reading discuss trends and drivers for change, as well as the latest innovations emerging in netw ...
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The 5G Smart City: Cities are Lining up for a Sli ...
Smart Cities are coming, and 5G network slicing technology will enable them, with its ability to enable the critical services tha ...
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What's New and Different about IP Networking
Omdia and Ciena examine a new way to deliver standards-based IP networks from access to metro, including discussions around 5G xH ...