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The 3 P’s of PON
Do you know about the three P's of Passive Optical Networks (PONs)? Ciena’s Wayne Hickey discusses how the three key variables: p ...
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Network Transformation Suite
Your network infrastructure underpins business growth. Changes must be well planned and executed to ensure that you meet business ...

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Recognizing our heroes
In honor of World Humanitarian Day, we share the stories from some of our Ciena heroes who helped those in need in India during t ...
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Securing the Cloud
Rolling out a comprehensive security plan can be challenging. Fortunately, optical layer encryption provides first-level defense ...

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Chalk Talk: Fiber Deep
In this Chalk Talk, Wayne Hickey, Ciena Product Marketing, shares why Fiber Deep is important and how it works.
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5164
Ciena’s 5164 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul (xHaul) networks onto a ...
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5166
Ciena’s 5166 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul (xHaul) networks onto a ...
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Route Analyzer DS | Ciena
Ciena’s Enterprise Route Analyzer provides visibility into the dynamic routing operation of the entire network—enabling fast iden ...

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Chalk Talk: Adaptive IP
Ciena’s Adaptive IP lets you deliver IP-based connectivity for 5G, IP VPN Business Services, et al with the service velocity and ...

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Chalk Talk: The Future of Networks
Ciena CTO Steve Alexander provides his insights into the future direction of critical communications networks to support ever inc ...

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Celebrating our families
Ray Gabriel, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, shares his story of starting a family through surrogacy and what it meant to h ...

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Back to the Future(com)
The tech and telecom industry descends on São Paulo, Brazil, this week for Futurecom 2017. Ciena's Brian Lavallée details the lat ...

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Chalk Talk: WaveLogic Ai
Joe Shapiro, Director, Product Line Management, explains how Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai coherent technology enables the foundation for ...

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Chalk Talk: Ciena’s Waveserver 5 compact intercon ...
Get more 100GE/400GE at any distance. In this video, Joe Shapiro, Sr. Director PLM, introduces the Waveserver 5 platform built to ...
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2 x 100G MOTR module
Designed for next-generation access/metro applications, the 2 x 100G MOTR module provides efficient aggregation and transport of ...
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Managed Services: Managed NOC
These four other-than-full-network use cases outline how Ciena Services’ Managed NOC can help you manage your network and deliver ...

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Southern Cross Video | Ciena
Southern Cross’s Laurie Miller and Ciena’s Steve Alexander discuss how Southern Cross NEXT is primed to meet the demand for globa ...

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Fiber Deep Planning for ...
Ciena's Wayne Hickey details what Cable MSOs must consider when driving fiber deeper into their network.

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Chalk Talk: Waveserver Ai
Waveserver Ai: Stackable interconnect platform purpose-built for high capacity, high density and low power applications such as d ...
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Emulation Cloud
Emulation Cloud™ is an open application development environment and digital twin designed to help customers and verified third-pa ...

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Extending the 100G Edge
Introducing Ciena’s new 5171 Service Aggregation Switch and Service Aggregation Platform, bringing more capacity closer to the ne ...
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Making IPoDWDM a Reality
The commercialization of 400G coherent pluggable optics in QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors has sparked a resurgence of interest in ...

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A Guide to Avoiding Automation Islands
Autonomous networking is all the rage. Networking vendors are touting their automation visions, and service providers are creatin ...