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Preview our Top 5 online courses to celebrate Nat ...

September 15 is National Online Learning Day, and Ciena is joining with others to celebrate the opportunities and advances that o ...

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Digital-First India: Building a future proof and ...

How did Airtel build a new infrastructure that can dynamically adjust and keep up with ever-changing user demands in India?

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Ciena unveils Liquid Spectrum: The future of soft ...

For all the “agile” innovation over the last decade, today's optical networks are still predominantly static. This changes with C ...

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Standards Update: 200GbE, 400GbE and Beyond with ...

Ciena's Helen Xenos talks to Pete Anslow, our Ethernet standards guru, about the newly approved IEEE standards for 200GbE and 400 ...

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Openreach Boosts Connectivity Services for UK Car ...

Openreach is deploying Ciena’s Routing and Switching and WaveLogic Ai- based coherent optical platforms to efficiently increase n ...

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Podcasts

Light Reading Podcast - Adapting to What’s Next i ...

In this podcast Ciena and Heavy Reading discuss trends and drivers for change, as well as the latest innovations emerging in netw ...

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Ciena Brings Latest Optical, Packet and Software ...

Ciena will showcase optical networking, packet and software innovations at OFC 2019, taking place March 3-7 at the San Diego Conv ...

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Retelit Deploys High-Performance Network In Italy ...

Ciena and Retelit Spa, a leading Italian provider of data services and infrastructure, have announced the deployment of Ciena’s c ...

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Webinars

IP/Optical Convergence: Architecture Modernizatio ...

Learn about the architectural approach required to address the ever-changing application demands in the industry from this webina ...

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White Papers

A Model for Business Case Analysis of C/L-band Ne ...

This white paper presents a model for the analysis of C/L-band business cases, with the objective of enabling network operators

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How coherent technology decisions that start in t ...

What is the difference between 400G, 600G and 800G coherent solutions? It seems to be obvious, but is it just about maximum wavel ...

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White Papers

Practical Considerations for Near-Zero Margin Net ...

This paper examines this trend from the equipment design point of view and applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the problem of ...

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The DevOps Revolution: The “Jig is Up” for Legacy ...

Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...

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Enterprise Network Investment Strategy Missing Ke ...

Ciena research reveals that UK organisations stifle innovation by holding onto their network assets for too long, lagging far beh ...

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Ciena’s new ‘Smart Raman’ provides Raman gain wit ...

Ciena has recently introduced an innovative new Raman solution that eliminates the pain points of previous Raman products and eve ...

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Helping the planet and driving better economics, ...

Not all ZR plugs are created equal. They might all be standards-based, but that’s where the similarities end. What would signific ...

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Do enterprises have to use ‘TruckerNet’ to migrat ...

The initial migration of enterprise data to the cloud can be a massive undertaking involving Terabytes (even Petabytes) of data. ...

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Keep it simple – debating coherent plugs versus t ...

Coherent Routing is a hot topic in the industry due to the promise of greater scalability, flexibility, and sustainability in the ...

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AAG Upgrades Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable Networ ...

The Asia America Gateway (AAG) consortium recently selected Ciena for a 100G expansion to significantly enhance its trans-Pacific ...

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Our involvement with AT&T’s 400GbE trial and ...

AT&T has successfully trialed 400GbE across its production network. Helen Xenos details how Ciena helped make it happen, and what ...

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What’s new from Ciena in optical? The breadth of ...

Once again Ciena is breaking barriers across both performance and footprint-optimized coherent optics, learn about our latest opt ...

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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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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.

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Videos

In the Lab: Waveserver 5 safeguards sensitive dat ...

Ciena’s Waveserver 5 offers AES-256-GCM, wire-speed optical layer encryption with line rates up to 800G for up to 6.4T of encrypt ...

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