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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Cyan
New Blue Planet business division to lead Company’s software activities to deliver greater efficiency, automation and agility of ...
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Network, heal thyself – with analytics and AI
With the move to virtualized networks, operators need to be able to manage hybrid networks made up of physical and virtual compon ...
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Ciena unveils a carrier-grade CPE for NFV
Since Ciena announced our NFV solution, Agility Matrix, in December, we have been quite busy working a variety of enhancements to ...
White Paper
What Could You Do With 100 Gbps Coherent PON?
Download this white paper prepared for SCTE regarding what you can do with 100 Gbps Coherent PON.
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SDN control – 3 rules for successful deployment
When implementing SDN control in service provider optical networks, what works and what are the key architectural decisions on th ...
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A DevOps Checklist for Traditional Service Provid ...
Can traditional services providers successfully implement a DevOps approach? There are five critical steps that need to be taken ...
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MPLS & AI Net World 2025 Presents: The Path t ...
Ciena's Jan Straznicky, Senior Director of Product Line Management discussed the path to scalable transport with segment routing.
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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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Automation’s necessity for full 5G deployments
As service providers in the Asia-Pacific region race to deploy 5G, software and new network intelligence will be critical to ensu ...
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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. ...
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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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Ciena Emulation Cloud: A 12-Month Report Card
From cloud-based network lab validation to API training to multi-vendor introp testing, Ciena’s new Emulation Cloud environment h ...
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Current and future trends driving change in cable ...
Elias Cagiannos, Ciena's Cable MSO Practice Leader, talks BTR at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo about the current and future trends driv ...
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Packet Design
Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of Packet Design. Rick Hamilton, SVP of Global Software and Services at Ciena, det ...
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Ciena’s 2019 Holiday Bundle is now available!
We know you have been waiting for it! Ciena’s end-of-year eBook bundle is back. Find out what presents are included this year.
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Ciena 6500: Extreme Packet Makeover Edition
It’s time to rethink everything you know about Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical Platform. You’ve known the 6500 as our flagship platfo ...
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Ciena Adds Analytics to Blue Planet, Driving Busi ...
Ciena’s Blue Planet Analytics generates deep network insights through big data to help network operators make smarter, data-drive ...
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Blue Orbit: Best-of-Breed Building Blocks
Ciena Blue Planet has today added six new members to our Blue Orbit Ecosystem. Unlike other partner programs, 100% of the partner ...
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Hacking Rome: Inside the MEF's latest Hackathon e ...
Here is the inside scoop on the recent MEF Hackathon event.
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TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both
Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...
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CORD hits all the right chords with ONOS
Just like how a good song sticks in your head, CORD is hitting all the right notes for network operators looking to re-architect ...
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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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Topology Discovery – Gaining Insight to Your Netw ...
This video describes how Ciena applies an advanced analytic algorithm to network data to determine physical connectivity for L1 n ...
White Paper
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.