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Webinars
Scaling for the Next Giant Demand Wave
Join Light Reading’s CEO and Founder, Steve Saunders, and Ciena’s Stephen Alexander, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology O ...
Webinars
In the Lab: Automating the Photonic Layer
Learn why network providers are increasingly moving towards a more agile photonic layer to better scale their networks for higher ...
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.
Articles
Check your Fiber Deep boxes with Ciena
Getting high-bandwidth closer to customers at the network edge needs an adaptive network infrastructure, and the right network pa ...
Infobriefs
WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G Universal QSFP-DD
The WL5n Universal QSFP-DD is optimized for ease of deployment over all types of photonic line systems.
Articles
Unique insights into your submarine network
What if cable operators could leverage software-based advancements to improve the operation and maintenance of their submarine ne ...
Articles
Selecting flexible coherent routing platforms wit ...
Did you know Ciena’s coherent routing platforms have all the capabilities you need to support next-generation metro and edge use ...
Articles
Ciena's Keri Gilder on Trends, Traction, DevOps a ...
Did you know that over 40% of the Saudi Arabian population is under the age of 18? Did you also know that they consume an average ...
Infobriefs
Primer: A Guide to 400G Optical Networks
This guide covers all you need to know about 400G, the technology that supports it, and how it is being used in the marketplace.
Articles
Why data security is more important than ever
Joe Marsella, CTO EMEA at Ciena, discusses the implications of optical fibre hacking and why a holistic security strategy is esse ...
Videos
Setting records in 800G - Altibox Carrier and Cie ...
Watch how Altibox broke new optical transmission records using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme.
Articles
Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
Infobriefs
The Adaptive Network Vision webinar recap
Network providers face an unprecedented number of decisions about how to design their networks to support them well into the futu ...
Articles
Grow smarter by leveraging your existing infrastr ...
Networks are experiencing explosive bandwidth growth, and technology service providers are the first to face its impact. From the ...
Articles
ONOS framework builds out SDN ecosystem
Read Q&A conversation on Open Network Operating System – or ONOS – backed by ON.Lab.
Articles
Connecting Data Centers Under the Sea
New submarine cables, especially those owned and operated by ICPs, should land in non-traditional locations that are closer to th ...
Brochures
New Coherent Chipsets for a Web-scale World
WaveLogic 3 Extreme and WaveLogic 3 Nano coherent optical processors deliver new levels of 100G capacities and efficiencies to he ...
Articles
Year in Review: Ciena's 5 Biggest Announcements o ...
Bo Gowan, Ciena's social media leader, details the top news and announcements from a busy year in 2015 at Ciena.
Videos
WaveLogic 6 Extreme: Evolving to 1.6Tb/s Networki ...
Joe Shapiro, Vice President PLM, explains the business benefits of evolving to 1.6T technology with Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme f ...
White Papers
Ovum: Optical Networks Booming in India
India has been the best-performing optical networking market in 2017. This report highlights the optical networking market share ...
Articles
The Advent of Open Submarine Networks
Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...
Webinars
Optimizing Performance in High Speed Networks
In this webinar, Ciena, a leading provider of telecommunications equipment, and EXFO, a well-established supplier of test and mea ...
Articles
SubOptic 2019: Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler!
As the proud host of the triennial SubOptic 2019 submarine network industry event, Ciena welcomes you to New Orleans, Louisiana! ...
Infobriefs
WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G Standard CFP2-DCO
Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) 100G–400G Standard CFP2-DCO transceiver module provides standards-compliant 100–400 Gb/s coherent ...