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Ultra-Low Latency Packet WAN For Utilities
SEL and Ciena have validated the ultra-low-latency packet WAN solution that meets and beats the industry standard for latency and ...
Press Release
UK’s Jisc Delivers World’s First 400G National Re ...
Jisc is deploying Ciena’s 6500 packet-optical platform powered by WaveLogic Ai coherent optics to provide unprecedented high-capa ...
Article
Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM ...
Ciena, CANARIE and StarLight collaborate on a 300G trail over a live research network using 8QAM modulation.
Application note
Transform Large-Scale Science Collaboration
Ciena’s Science DMZ solution provides universities and research labs scalable, flexible high-capacity transfer of massive data fl ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Infobrief
The Top Five Advantages of Packet-Optical Network ...
This paper outlines the top five advantages these high-performance networks deliver for healthcare providers.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...