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Blue Planet Analytics: Unlock your network’s trea ...
Network analytics are only as valuable as your ability to collect, centralize and interpret the data. Enter Blue Planet Analytics.
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4 Reasons Enterprises Love SD-WAN
Lee Doyle of Doyle Research explains why SD-WAN services are so attractive to enterprises, and what service providers can do to r ...
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Service Providers Name Ciena Leading Optical Vend ...
2016 study reports service provider perceptions of optical equipment suppliers; Ciena claims top spot in key categories
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Southern Cross Launches ‘Elastic’ Transoceanic Ba ...
Blue Planet V-WAN solution increases network flexibility; allows customers to request bandwidth at set levels, anytime, anywhere..
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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.
eBook
SDN NFV Glossary
This glossary, brought to you by Ciena, has all the terms you need to know to navigate the SDN and NFV industry.
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Telecom Acronyms Guide
The fourth edition of The Acronyms Guide, brought to you by Ciena, is a handy guide to help you decipher the telecom industry's a ...
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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of 20 ...
As 2016 comes to a close, we take a look back at the biggest news from a big year here at Ciena.
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SDN: a not-so-secret ingredient for transforming ...
Software-defined networking or SDN is the key to opening up ICT change programmes.
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Our Gift to You: Ciena's Ultimate eBook Holiday B ...
Just in time for the holidays, we've made our three most popular technology eBooks available for download, and added two new refe ...
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Why Model-Driven Templating Matters with SDN and ...
In the move to SDN and NFV architectures, model-driven templating plays a pivotal role in helping develop and deliver new service ...
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Best Practice Advice for Deploying SDN and NFV
Here is some advice for network operators looking to migrate to SDN and NFV.
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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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South Africa’s DFA Automates and Virtualises Serv ...
Dark Fibre Africa, South Africa's leading provider of open-access fibre infrastructure, is deploying Ciena’s® Blue Planet orchest ...
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Cable in 2020: Agile and Closer to the User
Cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) are content-driven businesses currently seeing new and broad opportunities for expansion.
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MEF16: We have a winner!
Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet division details the multi-vendor Proof of Concept demo the team conducted with CenturyLink and ...
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No Time for Rest: Windstream’s Kelly Crosby detai ...
A fascinating Q/A with Windstream Senior Product Manager Kelly Crosby on their expanded Wave service, changing approaches to virt ...
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Ciena to Show Advanced Research and Development I ...
Industry-leading Blue Planet software, DCI, and optical networking technology accelerate work in scientific research across the g ...
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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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Ciena Unveils Open Distributed NFV Solution at ME ...
Delivers virtualization at the network edge to enable faster time-to-market of new enterprise applications and services
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CenturyLink, RAD, Ciena, and Ciena’s Blue Planet ...
Showcases the Use of Open APIs and Virtualized Services Across an Orchestrated, Multi-Vendor Network
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The Benefits of Distributed Network Functions Vir ...
With the Ciena D-NFV Solution, customers can choose location, cost, and scale to match their service needs from their provider.
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Realize New Services in an Instant with a Distrib ...
This paper discusses some of the important features of D-NFV that enterprises need to know before getting started with NFV.
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Distributed NFV (D-NFVI) Software product data sh ...
Ciena D-NFVI Software comprises a complete, modular solution for distributed VNF deployment.