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Being a Catalyst of Industry Change
Ciena's Sam Torrente details how Ciena Blue Planet and DGIT Systems worked together to create an award-winning solution using ope ...
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Ciena’s 2018 Holiday Bundle is Here!
Spend your downtime this holiday season applying the collective knowledge of some of the world’s best and brightest minds in tele ...
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of DonRiver
Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of DonRiver. Rick Hamilton, SVP of Global Software and Services at Ciena, details ...
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Upskilling staff through disruptive times
As enterprises change how they architect networks, they must train staff. Everyone involved—vendors, partners, enterprises—must p ...
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The submarine network seascape in 2020
Ciena’s submarine networking expert, Brian Lavallée, highlights key areas for focused innovation throughout 2020.
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Blog Series | Transform your network operations w ...
Did you know Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to boost business agility and su ...
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Creating Intelligent Hybrid Operations
This paper will explore the ongoing changes in operational models, what the new operations model could look like, and the role of ...
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Accelerating Access to Cloud Connectivity
Tyler Coates, Senior Vice President for Enterprise at Zayo, details the company’s efforts to speed and simplify enterprise access ...
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What is an Optical Control Plane?
To help clarify the question of “what is an optical control plane?”, we put together the below infographic that walks through the ...
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D-NFV for enterprises: 5 key benefits
Learn why D-NFV's speed and simplicity might make it the next evolution of how enterprises deploy new network services.
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What’s Next for Cable Business Services?
For cable operators, business services have been a key growth engine for years. Ciena’s Darren McKinney explains how cable MSOs m ...
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Celebrating National Engineering Month
Ciena’s Michael Hubbard, Dave Doucet, and Melissa Trezise share why they became optical and software engineers, what keeps them m ...
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SC17: Super Networks for Super Computers
The SC17 conference provides a perfect opportunity to experience the intersection of high-performance computing with high-perform ...
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The Top 3 Take-Aways from NGON 2017
What does lemon pie have to do with next-gen optical network architectures? Quite a bit actually, explains Ciena's Helen Xenos.
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Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio
The Blue Planet brochure provides a high-level view of the Blue Planet network virtualization and service orchestration software.
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Driving towards an open and smarter RAN
What are the benefits of opening the Radio Access Network (RAN) and what is the industry doing to drive this change? Ciena’s Bria ...
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Busting a few myths about microservices
The topic of microservices architectures for application development is getting a lot of attention. We highlight some of the myth ...
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Check your Fiber Deep boxes with Ciena
Getting high-bandwidth closer to customers at the network edge needs an adaptive network infrastructure, and the right network pa ...
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7 Steps to Big Data Analytics and AI
Operators are turning to big data tools and analytics to analyze the vast amounts of information they’re accumulating in data lak ...
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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
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Year in Review: Ciena's 5 Biggest Announcements o ...
Bo Gowan, Ciena's social media leader, details the top news and announcements from a busy year in 2015 at Ciena.
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On the Submarine Network Horizon in 2019
Submarine networking operators continue to need new innovations in order to meet the evolving needs of this critical infrastructu ...
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Blue Planet Q&A: Services, SDN, and NFV
Ciena's Joe Cumello and Pamela Morgan talk to Telecom Ramblings about their experiences rolling out our Blue Planet portfolio wit ...
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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks
Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...