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What is Gridless Networking?
What is gridless networking? Brian Lavallée, who heads up submarine networks industry marketing for Ciena, provides some insight.
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Introducing the 2-slot Ciena 6500 Packet-Optical ...
Last month, Ciena made a big announcement dubbed “Intelligent Infrastructure” that detailed the strategic evolution of our packet ...
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Cycle Slips: Not all coherent technology is creat ...
With more than ten years of development behind us, Ciena has engineered our coherent products from the ground up to eliminate fai ...
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Comcast's new Metro Ethernet service using Ciena ...
Comcast is using Ciena Carrier Ethernet gear to provide Metro Ethernet services to customers in more than 20 major markets across ...
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The real value of Managed Services: More than jus ...
Managed services done right is proactive monitoring, maintenance, and operations beyond keeping the basic reactive
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CienaLife: Career insights for new grads
Members of Ciena’s Marketing and Sales Development Program share their tips and experiences.
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CienaLife: Recap of our company-wide volunteer day
Here's a recap of Ciena volunteer efforts on the company-wide volunteer day.
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The Arrival of Open Utility Networks
The utility industry is undergoing a comprehensive transformation as it modernizes to a more efficient and smarter grid. Because ...
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12 Questions Answered on 5G Networks
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée, talks 5G rollouts and how ultimate success will depend MNOs making sure that they have fiber in place for ...
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Baking accessibility into our DNA—greater access ...
Ciena puts those with disabilities at the forefront of user experience and website accessibility to enhance Ciena’s commitment to ...
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Why Smart Cities Need Adaptable Pipes
For cities to evolve and realize the full benefits of becoming “smart” they will require real-time access to multiple sources of ...
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Primer: What is mobile fronthaul?
Our expert Brian Lavallée explains both mobile backhaul and fronthaul and how they address the growing challenge of helping trans ...
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5G wireless needs fiber, and lots of it
Ciena's Brian Lavallée explains that 5G mobile networks will significantly affect both the wireless side (obviously!) and the wir ...
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7 key attributes for the new network edge
Gradual technology evolution won’t work for the multi-access edge, where new IoT apps, cloud services, and 5G services are creati ...
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Unifying legacy and modern packet-based services
Within the last decade, TDM to IP modernization is no longer a question of “if” but rather “when”, as converging legacy and moder ...
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Choosing your 4G to 5G network evolution partner
The complexity and scale of 4G to 5G network evolution means you need the right partner, not just a supplier, to support you ever ...
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How much bandwidth does Broadcast HD video use?
One of the most often cited reasons for the global explosion in bandwidth demand is the significant rise in video traffic, and sp ...
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Tomorrow's cities: evolving from "smart" to Adapt ...
Cities are going smart – trying to deal with the proliferation of people, sensors, automobiles and a range of devices that demand ...
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The 5G Smart City: Cities are Lining up for a Sli ...
Smart Cities are coming, and 5G network slicing technology will enable them, with its ability to enable the critical services tha ...
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Is technology the answer to stopping unsafe drivi ...
All of us at times, are guilty of unsafe driving. Learn about a project Ciena is working on with the Colorado Department of Trans ...
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5 outcomes our Ciena Optimization Service brings ...
Need more comprehensive visibility into your network infrastructure? Tim Wilson details how Ciena Optimization Service can help b ...
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The Success of 5G Wireless Services Will Depend o ...
5G is much more than a new wireless access technology. It will fundamentally change how Mobile Network Operators build, operate, ...
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Blog Spotlight | Unify your network and protect y ...
What if you could offer investment protection to both the operator and customer? Take your network and your customer’s business t ...
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How planners, operations teams and executives can ...
Network providers need to harness telemetry data from their infrastructure so they can operate more agile, adaptive systems. With ...