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What is Distributed NFV and why do you need it?
Ciena's Brian Lavallée introduces the concept of Distributed NFV, or D-NFV, and why service providers are increasingly looking at ...
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Keeping the Lights on With Advanced Analytics
Utility companies are facing increasingly daunting challenges, with Ciena’s Advanced Analytics capabilities, the power to keep th ...
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Lessons from #TMFLive: How the Pace of Operations ...
At last week’s TM Forum Live! event, executives did not shy away from the topic of rethinking their business models in order to a ...
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8140 DS | Ciena
Ciena’s 8140 Coherent Metro Router is purpose-built for 10/25/100GbE services and 10/25/100GbE to 400GbE aggregation.
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How Financial Enterprises Light Up the Darkness
For some financial institutions, a private dark fiber network provides the control and security they require for data center conn ...
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5184
The 5184 is a compact, secure aggregation router with integrated line-rate media access control security (MACsec) support and is ...
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Hyped to Death: AI Must Avoid Becoming a Cliché
AI use by telcos and providers can potentially improve customer service, speed onboarding, and reduce outages by pro-actively ide ...
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3984 DS | Ciena
Ciena’s 3984 Platform is an advanced edge router able to deliver Carrier Ethernet, Cell Site Router, Passive Optical Network, and ...
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Year in review: Ciena’s 8 biggest announcements o ...
As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2018.
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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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The Road to Autonomous Networks: Taking a New Path
In the second of a 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the journey of Our Hero as he s ...
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Ciena's 9 predictions for networks and tech in 20 ...
Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give their predictions for the upcoming year.
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3806 DS | Ciena
Ciena’s 3806 XGS-PON weatherproof Optical Network Unit (ONU) is purpose-built for residential and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) ...
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What's in store for Asia Pacific Networking in 20 ...
From 5G to AI to the move to virtualization, Ciena’s Anup Changaroth gives his insights on the major trends that are likely to dr ...
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Outsmarting Networking Complexity with Intelligen ...
Network complexity is increasing exponentially, creating intense challenges in managing the explosive growth of end-points. Intel ...
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When time is money, banks can’t afford a network ...
To deliver a higher quality customer experience, banks of all sizes are deploying innovative digital applications and partnering ...
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Ciena Cares in Action: Our Response to Natural Di ...
Mark Stevens, Ciena’s Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, reflects on how Ciena and its employees are responding to help ...
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5169 DS | Ciena
Ciena’s 5169 Router is purpose-built for next-generation broadband and 5G networks.
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3924 DS | Ciena
The 3924 features a high-capacity 44 Gb/s switching fabric supporting four 10GbE/1GbE ports and four 1GbE ports in a compact 1RU ...
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Managed Services: Managed NOC
This video explores four uses cases for Ciena's Managed Services, identifying specific subsystems for Ciena Services to manage, w ...
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O NID DS | Ciena
Ciena’s O-NID extends OTN closer to the network edge, with operational simplicity and the flexibility to address multiple applica ...
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Waverouter DS | Ciena
Ciena’s WaveRouter™ is a family of purpose-built coherent metro routers designed to unify IP and optical in the metro—with ultima ...
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3922 DS | Ciena
Ciena’s 3922 Platform is purpose-built for smaller capacity 1/10 Gb/s service delivery in a variety of business environments. The ...
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Chalk Talk: Optical Transport Network (OTN)
Find out how Optical Transport Network (OTN), a multi-network protocol compatible with Ethernet, helps you build video, mobile, i ...