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Ciena leader in latest IHS Markit service provide ...

IHS Markit has released its annual optical leadership survey – with the results not only naming Ciena the Top Optical Transmissio ...

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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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5 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About In-Flight ...

Ciena's Paulina Gomez sheds some light on the story of in-flight data and how to protect it with these compelling encryption fact ...

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Eastern Light Deploys Ciena GeoMesh in Northern E ...

Sweden’s Eastern Light, a company building a series of new, international, submarine fiber-optic cable routes in northern Europe, ...

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Single-wave 400G across 4,000km? Yes – with Ciena ...

Ciena’s popular family of Waveserver products just got a new member – Waveserver 5. With tunable capacity up to 800G and support ...

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Ciena to Showcase the Network of the Future at SC ...

Powerful optical technology and Blue Planet software drive network automation and programmability

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White Papers

Increasing Fiber Capacity with L-band: A comparis ...

Networks with high bandwidth applications and sustained bandwidth growth are quickly facing capacity exhaust on routes between ke ...

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Telxius’ BRUSA Reaches 160 Tbps with Ciena’s Wave ...

Telxius’ BRUSA cable successfully reached record 550 Gbps single-wavelength channel speeds during an advanced trial leveraging Ci ...

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Webinars

Start the Journey to the Adaptive Network – Real- ...

In this webinar, Ciena will share key insights on how other companies have begun this journey and provide examples of how to achi ...

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How photonic control plane advancements are benef ...

A photonic control plane is not new to optical networks, but new capabilities are changing how operators can benefit from it. Cie ...

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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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BT and Ciena Light World’s First 800G Super-Chann ...

Ciena and BT today announced a series of pioneering trials over BT’s UK optical core network infrastructure.

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White Papers

IHS Markit: 2019 Optical Equipment Vendor Leaders ...

This year’s survey report covers and elaborates on hot topics within the industry like Data Center Interconnect, optical network ...

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Videos

In the Lab: Waveserver 5. Leverage low-power 400Z ...

In this video, we showcase two traffic modules supporting low-power 400ZR for single-span interconnect and 400ZR as a client on-r ...

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Infonas Takes Network Management to the Cloud wit ...

Infonas selected software and services from Ciena to expand its network capabilities and meet increasing demand for high performa ...

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Application Notes

WaveLogic 5 Nano 400ZR: Scaling Single-span Data ...

As network bandwidth growth continues unabated and new compute-intensive applications come online, global cloud and content provi ...

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Ciena Adds Six New Partners to Blue Orbit Ecosyst ...

SDN and NFV industry leaders rally to demonstrate multi-vendor interoperability

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Videos

Modernize Your Photonic Line System with Ciena's ...

Learn how RLS is improving density for C&L-band deployments, and how it helps network providers evolve from wavelength and dark f ...

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Scale your DCI with Waveserver's high-performance ...

Learn how the Waveserver platform provides scalability and choice in optics with support for 400G coherent pluggable optics and h ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Designing programm ...

Ciena’s optical network expert, David Boertjes, discusses the programmable infrastructure needed to achieve a near-zero margin ne ...

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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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Ciena’s new Waveserver: a dream machine for data ...

Ciena introduces the Waveserver™, a compact and purpose-built platform capable of enabling massive multi-terabit bandwidth for me ...

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Application Notes

Simplify Integration and Reap Cost Savings with C ...

This paper features two case studies that demonstrate the tangible cost and efficiency benefits realized by using Emulation Cloud.

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Webinars

Staying Lean and Fit—Enabling the Adaptive Networ ...

This advanced class combines learnings from previous sessions and features use cases leveraging advanced software applications an ...

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