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#Ciena25: 25 pictures from 25 years at Ciena

2017 marks the 25-year anniversary of Ciena's founding in 1992. To celebrate, we look back at the people, pictures and technologi ...

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#Ciena25: An Interview with Ciena Mascot Lightwor ...

Remember Lightworks Lou? That’s right, the wiry, fibery, mitten-wearing Ciena mascot who burst onto the scene in the early 2000s ...

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#Ciena25: Best Wishes from Some Amazing Customers ...

November officially marks Ciena's 25th anniversary. To kick off the month, a few of our customers sent over some kind words as a ...

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#Ciena25: Best Wishes from Some Amazing Customers ...

November officially marks Ciena's 25th anniversary. To kick off the month, a few of our customers sent over some kind words as a ...

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#Ciena25: The Story Behind the Founding of Ciena

2017 marks Ciena's 25-year anniversary. Here's the story of how it all started back in 1992, with four founding members and a new ...

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*SPARK* S.T.E.M in action

Women@Ciena Atlanta members dedicate their time and resources to educate, inspire and empower students from a successful but unde ...

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Data Sheets

1+8 OTN Flex MOTR Module

The 1+8 OTN Flex MOTR module leverages standards based OTU1/OTU2 encapsulation to cost-effectively extend the OTN infrastructure ...

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10 new terms that will help define the future of ...

5G is coming, and with it a host of new terms and acronyms. We try to make sense of it all with definitions for the ones that mat ...

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10 tech podcasts you need to check out – no reall ...

10 tech podcasts you must listen to for the latest telecom industry happenings, analysis of industry trends, and sneak peeks into ...

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100G and beyond for Research & Education netw ...

Ciena and the R&E community are pushing past terabit optical transport.

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100G Everywhere in the Access

Larger enterprises and service providers are rapidly adopting 100G, driving 400G in aggregation and metro-core.

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100G everywhere in the access

With Ciena’s new 5132 Router we will bring 100Gb/s service, demarcation, and coherent access to the business and wholesale enviro ...

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100GbE: Closer to the Edge, Closer to Reality

100GbE speeds may seem like overkill, but there’s a need for 100GbE services across a growing number of network scenarios. We det ...

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Data Sheets

10G SONET/SDH ADM Card product data sheet

Ciena’s 10G SONET/SDH ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXER (ADM) CARD transparently combines up to four OC-48/STM-16 framed signals into an OC-19 ...

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10G-MOTR Module product data sheet

The 10G-MOTR Multiservice 10G Muxponder Module acts as a single service aggregation and grooming module that multiplexes a wide r ...

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12 Mind-Blowing Data Center Facts You Need to Know

These 12 mind-blowing facts about the world's data centers will have your head spinning.

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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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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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2.5 SONET/SDH ADM Card product data sheet

CIENA’S 2.5G SONET/SDH ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXER (ADM) Card transparently combines up to eight OC-3/STM-1 and/or four OC-12/STM-4 fram ...

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Press Releases

2015: Ciena to Webcast Financial Community Events

Ciena® Corporation today announced its expected participation in the following upcoming events with the financial community.

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White Papers

2017 IHS Technology, SDN and NFV Vendor Leadershi ...

2017 IHS Technology Survey Excerpts on how research indicates the two primary factors driving SDN and NFV and more.

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2017 was a great year of giving at Ciena

Mark Stevens, Ciena’s Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, looks back at 2017 and how Ciena and its employees have transf ...

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2019 IHS Markit Optical Vendor Service Provider L ...

The IHS annual optical leadership survey is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service providers.

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Webinars

2019 Optical Network Master Class Webinar Series

Ciena’s comprehensive Optical Network Master Class Series gives the insights to understand how a programmable infrastructure enab ...

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