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The results of the IDC Asia/Pacific WAN and Communications Survey, 2015, show that enterprises see the need for network to be not ...
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Five key APIs to enable the concept of SDN-based ...
Ciena's Fady Masoud details the APIs that enable SDN-based virtual networks and help accelerate the evolution toward open cloud n ...
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Q&A session: Blue Orbit and Service Provider ...
Ciena's new Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit is creating a buzz with our customers and partners. Two of our experts explain what it is ...
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Automating the WAN with SDN – Avoiding “Hurry Up ...
“Hurry up and wait!” Too often, this is how pioneers in NFV-based services feel with WAN connectivity that takes weeks to be prov ...
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Q&A with Ron Kline: Predicting the Pace of Ch ...
Ciena's Ron Kline shares his perspective on the many factors that affect the pace of change in our industry and how companies mus ...
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Karl Horne Q&A: MDSO is the Key to Rolling wi ...
Karl Horne—Ciena’s CTO for the Asia Pacific region —explains how multi-domain service orchestration (MDSO) is crucial to helping ...
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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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12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...
As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...
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Nothing but Growth for UK Virtualisation Market A ...
What did a recent study of UK business demand for virtual IT services and NFV reveal? The results may surprise you.
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Ciena's Keri Gilder on Trends, Traction, DevOps a ...
Did you know that over 40% of the Saudi Arabian population is under the age of 18? Did you also know that they consume an average ...
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Opening Up Networks To Choice, At Last
In a world that was previously incapable of being software-driven, fully-integrated solutions once upon a time made sense.
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3 Keys to Having the Right APIs for SDN and NFV
We all understand the promise of SDN and NFV and its ability to unlock agility, flexibility and speed for the network
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The DevOps Revolution: The “Jig is Up” for Legacy ...
Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...
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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...
The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E
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When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing Networ ...
The demand for communications bandwidth is expanding faster and faster each year, and we’re entering a stage where just Moore’s L ...
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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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Can Service Providers Actually Make Money with NF ...
The acceleration of commercial NFV offers in 2016, including announcements from Orange and CenturyLink...
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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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The Evolution and Revolution of Networking Servic ...
This is the second in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.
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Automate or Die: What Telecom Must Learn from the ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.
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What is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offloads network functions into software that runs on industry-standard hardware and can be ...
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A closer look at CenturyLink’s Programmable Servi ...
Recep Ozdag details the work the Blue Planet team is doing with CenturyLink as part of their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) ...
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Survey: Network operators still see silos with SD ...
Perceived vendor silos are still an issue for network operators looking to move to SDN/NFV for service virtualization. That’s jus ...