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The Story Behind the First Reliable Trans-Atlanti ...
Learn the history of the first reliable subsea cable across the Atlantic in 1866 and how fast transmission speed has improved ove ...
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Ciena CEO Gary Smith: Is the Digital Revolution t ...
For all the talk of a “digital revolution” we have yet to see anywhere near the same economic growth or impact as past inustrial ...
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Is SDN the Golden Ticket? Only if you know how to ...
Just because everyone has a golden ticket doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a smooth ride through the SDN chocolate factory.
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Multi-Terabit Submarine Cables… Too Big to Fail?
Report in 2010 found that nearly 100 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic is carried by the ...
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Overcoming the Top 5 Challenges of Data Center In ...
Learn about five of the biggest DCI challenges and how to reduce or eliminate each.
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A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...
Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...
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Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM ...
Ciena, CANARIE and StarLight collaborate on a 300G trail over a live research network using 8QAM modulation.
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Ethernet vs. Carrier Ethernet: The New Network Pa ...
Ethernet is everyone's favorite networking technology. Its ubiquity and popularity have pushed it outside the LAN and across almo ...
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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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Top 10 things utilities should know about packet ...
Utilities are in a time of transition. Legacy communications circuits are being discontinued by carriers and there is pressure fo ...
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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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8 Slides from Mary Meeker’s 2016 internet and ban ...
Richard van der Draay reviews some of the findings, focusing mainly on bandwidth growth and usage.
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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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DCI for Media – Interconnecting Manchester to sup ...
Colin Sempill, Managing Director at SSE Enterprise Telecoms, talks about how the media sector is undergoing a massive restructuri ...
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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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Utilities are modernizing – here are three conver ...
Ciena's Malcolm Loro gives three recurring challenges he's hearing from Utilities providers as they look to modernize their techn ...
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Papers from SubOptic 2016 - Emerging Subsea Netwo ...
At SubOptic 2016, which was held in beautiful Dubai a few weeks ago, hundreds of enthusiastic attendees discussed (and debated) t ...
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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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Defending the smart city: 3 aspects to a holistic ...
With all the hype around Smart Cities today, you’d think they are ubiquitous. But even though there are a few high-profile exampl ...
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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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Connecting Data Centers Under the Sea
New submarine cables, especially those owned and operated by ICPs, should land in non-traditional locations that are closer to th ...
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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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Strategies for a total communications solution – ...
Alex Connors of Vodafone details the service provider’s new high-capacity Ethernet Services and hybrid WAN portfolio, which uses ...