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Transform Large-Scale Science Collaboration

Ciena’s Science DMZ solution provides universities and research labs scalable, flexible high-capacity transfer of massive data fl ...

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Press Release

Trans Pacific Express Selects Ciena for Submarine ...

Ciena is providing TPE with a multi-terabit upgrade using its GeoMesh submarine solution, including its new WaveLogic coherent op ...

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Article

TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both

Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...

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Video

Topology Discovery – Gaining Insight to Your Netw ...

This video describes how Ciena applies an advanced analytic algorithm to network data to determine physical connectivity for L1 n ...

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eBook

Today’s Top Optical Acronyms and Terms Explained

There are many confusing terms and acronyms in the optical space. Fear not, aspiring acronym user! Ciena is here to help, with an ...

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Infographics and posters

Time for a Change Towards a Modern Network?

Today’s complex network environments often have an installed base of legacy equipment from multiple vendors. Unfortunately, this ...

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Case Study

Tier 1 Carrier Case | Ciena

Working with Ciena, a leading Tier 1 carrier has deployed a new architecture to deliver optical services up to 100G and rolled ou ...

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Case Study

Tier 1 Carrier Brings New 40G and 100G Services t ...

Carrier chooses a white label service from Ciena to bypass its slow, costly New Product Introduction process and speed up time to ...

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Infobrief

The Top Five Advantages of Packet-Optical Network ...

This paper outlines the top five advantages these high-performance networks deliver for healthcare providers.

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Article

The Top 3 Take-Aways from NGON 2017

What does lemon pie have to do with next-gen optical network architectures? Quite a bit actually, explains Ciena's Helen Xenos.

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Article

The Story Behind the First Reliable Trans-Atlanti ...

Learn the history of the first reliable subsea cable across the Atlantic in 1866 and how fast transmission speed has improved ove ...

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Video

The Story and the People Behind Ciena’s WaveLogic ...

Hear from a few of the people at Ciena who have worked together to bring the industry's first single-carrier 400Gb/s solution to ...

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Article

The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye

While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...

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Article

The power behind 800G with WaveLogic 5 Extreme re ...

Wonder about the innovative technology behind Ciena’s 800G solution that allows for step level increases in network capacity and ...

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Infobrief

The Network Modernization Imperative

To meet growing bandwidth demands, carriers need networks that can adapt to new business models, scale on demand to support new s ...

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Application note

The Need for Speed in Healthcare Networks

Driven by significant growth in application data that needs to be networked among stakeholders in today’s healthcare ecosystem, h ...

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Article

The Metro gets a brand new 100G architecture opti ...

Traditionally, operators have had to choose between two types of photonic architectures when deploying an optical network: a pass ...

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Article

The key ingredients you need to be the master che ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how operators can benefit from following the right recipe to automate the photonic layer.

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Article

The Journey to 800G and Beyond

This blog originally appeared on Zayo's website. The road to innovation begins with a map. Sometimes it’s figurative — a roadmap ...

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Article

The journey to 1.6T: Why 1.6T and what’s in it fo ...

Incredible as it may sound, network providers will soon be able to evolve their optical networks to 1.6Tb/s transmission. What do ...

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Article

The journey to 1.6T: Understanding the technologi ...

Helen Xenos explains how the technology choices behind Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme 1.6 terabit coherent optics translate to optim ...

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Article

The implications behind service and content provi ...

As coherent technology plays an increasingly critical role in the network, Ciena’s Helen Xenos delves into the details behind wha ...

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Infographics and posters

The history of optical and Ethernet

In this infographic, you will see the history and evolution of both technologies, including major milestones for each.

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Article

The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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