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A tutorial on Modern Carrier Ethernet
It's not very often that we get deep into the details of technology on this blog -- we save that for our white papers and one-on- ...
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A smarter way: how analytics apps are solving you ...
Data is coming fast and furious for network providers – how can they understand what is happening so they can make smarter decisi ...
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A Smarter Communications Network for the Smart Gr ...
As electric utilities evolve to the smart grid, they need a comparable evolution of the underlying communications network.
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A smarter approach to broadband networks
Dare to achieve more with your broadband initiatives—make more of your investments, serve more communities, excel in service perf ...
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A Simple, Safe, and Seamless Migration from TDM t ...
Today, an increasing number of carriers and service providers are compelled to transition away from TDM technologies—which are ra ...
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A service provider’s guide to on-demand service p ...
The move to providing on-demand services is not just a technical challenge. How do you price them? How do you make sure they don' ...
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A Self-Optimizing Fabric for the 5G era
As the industry prepares for the rapid and wide-scale deployment of 5G, Ciena’s Kaniz Mahdi outlines an initiative with ENCQOR fo ...
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A Self-Optimizing Fabric for the 5G Era
This paper examines how self-optimizing fabrics forming a nervous system for the world of interconnected smart things could help ...
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A reflection of Ciena life in 2021
If we had to choose a word to describe 2021, it would be resilience. Collectively, our people came together with passion and inno ...
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A practical vision for rolling out 5G networks
When a leading global service provider was looking to roll out its 5G network infrastructure, a next-gen cell-site router was a k ...
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A Practical Approach to Utility Network Moderniza ...
Ciena’s 6200 can provide a low-risk, seamless evolution to next-generation communication architectures while continuing to levera ...
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A Perfect Score for WaveLogic Ai from Lightwave I ...
An independent panel of third-party judges has recognized Ciena's new WaveLogic Ai chipset with a perfect score of 5/5 stars in t ...
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A Peek Inside Ciena’s New Ottawa Campus and R& ...
The Ciena team turned out for a day of celebration as we officially moved into our new 425,000 square foot Ottawa campus.
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A peek inside CenturyLink’s National 100G Ultra L ...
CenturyLink began using Ciena’s 6500 platform in 2013 to modernize and upgrade its national network and offer high-speed services ...
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A Path to a Modern and Versatile Government Broad ...
The 6500 PTS, a high-performing TDM-to-packet technology solution that can provide both legacy and routing and switching services.
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A Path to a Modern and Versatile Government Broad ...
This paper summarizes government networking challenges and opportunities and introduces Ciena’s 6500 Packet Transport System a pr ...
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A packet networking blueprint, designed for 2020 ...
Supporting new and emerging high-growth applications requires rethinking how to modernize existing networks, according to Ciena’s ...
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A new, more efficient (augmented) reality for net ...
The bigger your network, the bigger the field engineering and troubleshooting challenges, and too many manual interventions and t ...
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A new age of IP/Optical network visibility and au ...
Heightened performance demands on IP and optical networks are ushering in a new age of network management, visibility and automat ...
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A Model for Business Case Analysis of C/L-band Ne ...
This white paper presents a model for the analysis of C/L-band business cases, with the objective of enabling network operators
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A methodology for crossing the chasm from legacy ...
TBR analyst Chris Antlitz details the benefits of a “consolidate and transform” approach to network modernization, and how a Tier ...