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Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?
There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...
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Dragonwave Compact DS | Ciena
Ciena a network strategy and technology company - Network Solutions for Optical Transport and Switching, Carrier Ethernet, Data a ...
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Chalk Talk: Blue Planet Analytics
Watch this video to learn how Blue Planet Analytics brings the benefits of big data analytics into your network.
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Chalk Talk: Coherent Optical Technology
John Sitch provides and overview of Coherent Technology.
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Metro Scalability Today and Tomorrow
Enjoy the freedom to build to scale-today and tomorrow your next-generation metro capacity and traffic pattern needs with three f ...
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Managed Services
Ciena’s Managed Network Service offerings provides increased operational efficiencies et al and an OPEX model that keeps your net ...
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7 key takeaways from #MWC17
Our Ciena team spent the week talking to customers, speaking at sessions, and on the exhibit floor showing off our latest tech to ...
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Reaching your career potential
As an experienced leader and professional, Kailem Anderson, VP, Portfolio and Engineering, reflects on his career journey and pro ...
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A connection for the future
Ciena’s work with Zayo serves as an ideal model for providers looking to extend their networks and plan for the future.
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Februar ...
This week, we're discussing Pluggables and their role in coherent technology evolution, helping you understand why CDC with flexi ...
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800G adoption soars in 2020
With the industry’s first programmable 800G solution in market this year, how fast have customers been embracing it? Ciena’s Hele ...
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One PON to rule them all?
It seems like every networking article in the history of the tech world is talking about the exponential increase in bandwidth de ...
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Optical Communications Certification
Businesses must shift toward a more scalable, less operationally complex network from access to metro—one that lays the foundatio ...
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800Gbps Quantum Secure Communications
Ciena’s Waveserver 5 platform powered by proven 800 Gb/s encryption, and Ciena's 8140 powered by 400GE MACsec encryption, leverag ...
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Broadband for municipal governments
Ciena’s Broadband Solution—open, modular, and scalable by design—leverages innovative broadband architecture and proven expertise ...
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Virtual Broadband Network Gateway
Ciena’s virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) is transforming the network edge with its ability to deliver network functions i ...
Ciena Customer Insights featuring Zayo
Aaron Werley, Technology VP, Lit Networks at Zayo Group, discusses recent 400G network enhancements, the “Waves on Demand” servic ...
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Celebrating the Rise of 400G
The era of 400G was in full force at OFC and we took some time to celebrate this milestone. Here are what our customers have to s ...
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SD-WAN: Threat or Opportunity?
Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet team says SD-WAN in its purest form can be considered a threat to a service provider's traditio ...
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Wavelogic 3 Video | Ciena
From metro and regional networks to ultra-long-haul submarine, the WaveLogic 3 Extreme is taking 100G where no 100G has gone befo ...
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Defending the Smart City
With all the hype around ‘Smart’ Cities, you would think they are ubiquitous. With their many potential threats to the network ut ...
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From Land to Sea to Cloud
It’s projected that Internet Content Providers will soon account for the majority of submarine traffic in all regions of the worl ...
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Maintenance Service: Managed Spares and Engineeri ...
Managed Spares and Engineering Dispatch to ensure replacements of failed equipment are performed quickly and accurately by our ex ...
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Broadband Infobrief | Ciena
To help you successfully make broadband access a market reality, Ciena takes a deliberately different, integrated approach. Our u ...