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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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Your Top 4 Questions Answered About WaveLogic Ai
Our new Ciena WaveLogic Ai coherent chipset has been generating a lot of excitement and interest from our customers. Ciena's Hele ...
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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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QTS Provides 400 Gb/s Data Center Interconnect Se ...
QTS is deploying Ciena’s Waveserver DCI platform.
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IHS Markit 2017 Optical Equipment Vendor Leadersh ...
IHS Markit’s annual optical leadership survey is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service providers. Download the report su ...
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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.
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Equinix launches new interconnect architecture be ...
Ciena’s Waveserver DCI platform extends connectivity and offers up to 100Gb per port
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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What is WDM or DWDM?
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a technique in fiber-optic transmission for using multiple light wavelengths (or colors ...
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What is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)?
Overview of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Functions run over an open hardware platform, lowering CapEx, OpEx, and accele ...
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What is Software-Defined Networking (SDN)?
4 key advantages of Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Centralized control, vendor neutral, open APIs, better network efficiency ...
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What Is Central Office Re-architected as a Data C ...
Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) is an open-source, flexible, and cost-effective platform that combines NFV, ...
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What is a wet data center?
With the promising concept of Wet Data Centers on the ocean floor to help move data faster, openness is taking hold in the submar ...
Webinar
Carrier Ethernet Summer Camp 2015
Surf’s up! Join the Carrier Ethernet tidal wave. Join us for a surfin’ safari at Ciena Summer Camp. Attend all four webinars and ...
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Coming Soon: A Data Center Near You
As more and more traffic traverses between data centers and end users due to mega-trends like OTT and cloud computing, the data c ...
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Ciena to Webcast Financial Community Event for Q1
Ciena® today announced its expected participation in the following upcoming January 2017 event with the financial community.
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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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Year in Review: Our 9 Best Pictures from 2016
One of the best parts of our social media program is all the great pictures we get from the Ciena team around the world. Here are ...
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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.
Article
What is service orchestration?
Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) is a set framework or architecture describing the lifecycle of an end-to-end connectivity s ...
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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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Powering 21
Download this infographic to learn how the evolution of education technology will have a significant impact on your broadband net ...