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Four Things to Know about Peering Connectivity

This paper explains how the ability to securely deliver high-quality video makes peering connectivity an attractive alternative f ...

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Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report November 2020

This Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report is produced by Light Reading and Heavy Reading in partnership with SCTE-ISBE. Ciena brin ...

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Cable in 2020: Agile and Closer to the User

Cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) are content-driven businesses currently seeing new and broad opportunities for expansion.

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Cable ISPs: Securing the Future with Fiber Deep

This paper explores the growing importance of the Internet to MSOs and offers steps for how to fortify the quality, performance, ...

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How can Services make your WaveRouter deployment ...

Adding Ciena Services to your team along with a little added cost now will help you fully realize the benefits of this radically ...

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Cable plays nice: Service convergence on the CIN

Ciena’s Chief Architect for the MSO Practice, Fernando Villarruel explains how moving forward, even more interaction between indu ...

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Top 5 Takeaways from Light Reading’s CNG 2019 Con ...

Did the ‘bomb cyclone’ winter blizzard last week in Denver keep you from attending the annual Light Reading Cable Next-Gen (CNG) ...

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Impact of 5G on Wireline Networks in Asia-Pacific

Understand why MNOs in the Asia-Pacific region need to take action now on an integrated wireless/wireline planning approach to so ...

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Three takeaways from CableLabs Summer Conference’ ...

Ciena’s Chief Architect for the MSO Practice, Fernando Villarruel spent last week at the 19th annual – and last – CableLabs Summe ...

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Application Notes

Modern, Agile Networks for the Super-high-bandwid ...

Rapid adoption of cloud services, video streaming, 4G and 5G wireless backhaul, and a range of other high-bandwidth applications ...

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5G Network Strategies Operator Survey, Powering 5 ...

Close to five years after the first commercial launches, 5G networks are now deployed by over 300 operators worldwide. As of the ...

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Intelligent multi-layer operations with Navigator ...

Learn how Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer networ ...

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The evolving coherent optical networking landscap ...

Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains how network providers are now at an inflection point and must evaluate innovative approaches to elev ...

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Addressing mid-market opportunities by utilizing ...

MSOs are looking to mid-market business services as an opportunity to grow, but what do they need to address this market? Ciena's ...

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Broadband Success Partners: Cable Operators & ...

Broadband Success Partners interviewed 24 cable executives from network engineering and business services to capture their insigh ...

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Omdia: 2020 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Score ...

This Scorecard evaluates the top optical network equipment vendors on criteria using concrete data and metrics, including direct ...

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Dealing with packet networking complexity? It’s t ...

Ciena’s Scott McFeely explains how new significant enhancements to Ciena’s Packet Networking portfolio will help you to accelerat ...

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Catch-up with Ciena, Blue Planet, and the hot top ...

Check out what Ciena has planned at next week’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2021 Virtual Experience and the interesting insights our expe ...

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Q&A: Learning More about CableLabs® New Coher ...

CableLabs recently released a specification for coherent optics that is a significant development to support Distributed Access A ...

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Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey – 87% Plan Aggregati ...

As part of the annual “Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey Report”, Heavy Reading surveyed over 200 respondents to get insights on Distr ...

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6 Takeaways from Heavy Reading Cable’s Fiber Outl ...

Heavy Reading recently surveyed the SCTE membership about their fiber buildout plans, we take a look at the top six takeaways fro ...

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Application Notes

Next-generation Access Technology for the Converg ...

Cable MSOs are looking to packet-based infrastructures that will deliver optimum performance and make it possible to introduce ne ...

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How does Ciena’s 5171 help solve key networking b ...

Ciena’s 5171 platform delivers the capacity network operators need, where they want it – the network edge. In our popular Chalk T ...

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800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...

The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...

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