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What is intelligent network control?
Intelligent network control goes beyond legacy Network Management Systems (NMS) and even beyond industry-standard Software-Define ...
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Universal aggregation for service providers
In the first two installments in this three-part series on universal aggregation, we looked at Mobile Network Operator (MNO) and ...
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What is 400ZR?
400ZR defines a footprint-optimized solution for transporting 400Gb Ethernet over DCI links targeting a minimum of 80 km.
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What is spectrum sharing?
Spectrum sharing is the logical partitioning of optical spectrum on a submarine cable for different end-users, such that each end ...
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What is Intelligent Automation?
Intelligent automation, built on software-defined control and orchestration with integrated analytics. Find out more about the 3 ...
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What is an autonomous network?
Learn what autonomous networks are and how they revolutionize telecom with AI-driven automation.
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What is L-band?
L-band, or long band, is a wavelength band immediately adjacent to the Conventional band (C-band) initially used to expand the ca ...
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Why SDN?
The key to Ciena’s Blue Planet SDN approach is openness. Blue Planet’s SDN is the vendor-neutral solution customers are turning t ...
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SDN Works Article
Ciena’s Blue Planet provides customer-proven, vendor-neutral SDN solutions for automating service and network provisioning across ...
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Why Data Center Interconnect (DCI)?
Ciena’s DCI solutions leverage field-proven coherent optical processing technologies to carry mission-critical traffic.
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What Is 5G?
Ready to take a deep dive into the coming world of super-fast 5G? Ciena’s separates fact from fiction and shows you how 5G will c ...
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How Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Works
Globally, Ciena has deployed more than 100 million kilometers of coherent networking solutions, which is equivalent to 130 round ...
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What are advanced analytics in optical networking?
Advanced analytics take advantage of new in-service monitoring capabilities, programmable settings, and integrated instrumentatio ...
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How NFV Works
Ciena can help facilitate a network operator’s NFV migration, delivering integrated end-to-end management, virtualization et al.
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Why NFV?
The rise of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has shifted this kind of processing to commodity servers. NFV brings significa ...
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Why Submarine Networking?
Submarine networks have undergone a monumental transformation in the last several years, and the lines between terrestrial and su ...
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Why Geomesh
GeoMesh Extreme is an open network architecture that integrates the best in hardware, software, and professional services to enab ...
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What is GeoMesh Extreme?
GeoMesh Extreme optimizes and protects your submarine network. Discover how it creates a global mesh so you can securely, sustain ...
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What is Next-Generation Operations Support System ...
Next-Generation Operations Support Systems (NGOSSs) improve on traditional OSSs with a more modern, highly agile, modular, and sc ...
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How GeoMesh Extreme Works
GeoMesh Extreme is an end-to-end network architecture, overland and undersea, that unites hardware, software, and professional se ...
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How Submarine Networking Works
Ciena’s unique submarine network architecture, GeoMesh Extreme, sets the stage for the massive change to submarine networks.
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How Fiber Deep Works?
Fiber deep is a large part of the next generation of cable—one that pushes fiber close to the end-user and yields a better custom ...
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What is Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO)?
LSO is a framework describing the lifecycle of an end to end connectivity service across one or more network service domains.
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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 ...