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Packets for All
For decades, TDM was the backbone for global bandwidth, transporting voice, data, and video. In 2012, global bandwidth was transf ...
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Blue Planet Analytics: Unlock your network’s trea ...
Network analytics are only as valuable as your ability to collect, centralize and interpret the data. Enter Blue Planet Analytics.
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Ciena Adds Analytics to Blue Planet, Driving Busi ...
Ciena’s Blue Planet Analytics generates deep network insights through big data to help network operators make smarter, data-drive ...
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8 Incredible Facts You Didn’t Know About Submarin ...
Ciena's subsea expert Brian Lavallée tests your knowledge of the world of submarine cable networks with this list of facts and fi ...
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François Locoh-Donou to Step Down as Ciena Chief ...
Ciena® today announced that François Locoh-Donou will step down as senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO), effec ...
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4 Reasons Enterprises Love SD-WAN
Lee Doyle of Doyle Research explains why SD-WAN services are so attractive to enterprises, and what service providers can do to r ...
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Cablevisión Argentina and Ciena Deploy 200G Netwo ...
Ciena upgrade doubles network capacity to support new cloud-based video services for Cablevisión
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Quintillion Selects Ciena to Provide Foundation f ...
Quintillion is deploying Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform to support the first phase of its 15,000-kilometer intercontinental sub ...
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Submarine Cable Networks, Open for Business
Open Cables, APIs, and big data analytics have and will continue to change everything going forward, says Ciena's Brian Lavallee, ...
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...