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Articles
Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of 20 ...
As 2016 comes to a close, we take a look back at the biggest news from a big year here at Ciena.
Webinars
Mission: Ground Control: Understand Spine Leaf Ne ...
This beginners guide offers what you need to know—the pros and cons—so you can build a new network topology that is out of this w ...
Articles
Ciena's 9 predictions for networks and tech in 20 ...
Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give their predictions for the upcoming year.
Webinars
Mission: Let the Countdown Begin with Time-Sensit ...
Join us for an overview of this new packet-based technology, how it works, and where it’ll be used. Time to blast off with TSN.
Articles
Top 5 business benefits of modernizing legacy net ...
Want to modernize your Business Services (TDM, Layer 2, and Layer 3) to cost-effectively generate new revenue streams without adv ...
Articles
Ovum Survey: What the market is saying about D-NFV
A new Ovum survey of 200 enterprise decision-makers provides some surprising insights on their views of Distributed NFV.
Webinars
Evolutionize: Adaptive IP for Segment Routing App ...
This webinar will explore how Ciena’s Adaptive IP leverages Centralized Segment Routing to evolve the network and make it more sc ...
Webinars
Beyond PON: The Critical Role of Shared Fiber Acc ...
Understand why 10Gb/s Passive Optical Network (PON) is expanding beyond residential to small enterprises, businesses, and mobilit ...
Application Notes
8180 Coherent Networking Platform: Connecting the ...
IoT usage is set to explode: Billions of things will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Emerging support applications require ...
Webinars
Mission: Explore a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Ask the ...
Our specialists answer a series of rapid-fire questions on market trends and technology ranging from: SDN/NFV trend or hype, whit ...
Articles
WaveRouter: Three examples of metro routing done ...
Ciena’s Nicola Benvenuti details just a few of the business case examples this unique, purpose-built platform architecture suppor ...
Infobriefs
Carrier Ethernet for LTE Mobile Backhaul Guidebook
This guide is a handy reference to mobile technology generations and adoption rates, as well as key topics in mobile backhaul tec ...
Articles
Ethernet Adventures: Learning to Thrive in a New ...
Ciena’s Chris Sweetapple describes how Our Hero embraces business Ethernet to shed complexity and simplify operations, creating a ...
Press Releases
Ciena Bolsters SK Telink’s Transpacific Route
SK Telink, a South Korean network operator, has selected Ciena to upgrade its submarine network between Seoul, South Korea, Hong ...
White Papers
5 Key Wireline Network Improvements Needed for 5G
This paper defines five key wireline network improvements that are needed for a service provider to be ready to deploy 5G service ...
Articles
Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the s ...
Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two st ...
Infobriefs
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 ...
Articles
Year in review: Ciena’s 5 biggest announcements o ...
From an uptick in 400G services to new acquisitions and partnerships, Ciena’s Bo Gowan highlights the biggest Ciena news and anno ...
Articles
Hacking Rome: Inside the MEF's latest Hackathon e ...
Here is the inside scoop on the recent MEF Hackathon event.
Videos
Chalk Talk - WaveRouter, Ciena’s purpose-built co ...
Meet Ciena’s purpose-built coherent metro router and hear how Ciena’s simple, scalable, and sustainable WaveRouter takes and impr ...
White Papers
Coordinated IP/Optical Control: Next Generation C ...
The momentum for converged multi-layer operations has begun, and industry innovators are discovering the benefits. There is chang ...
Articles
Getting Real with 100GbE: Three Early Deployment ...
It may be surprising, but there is already consumption demand for bandwidth at 100GbE speeds. Here are three early deployment sce ...
Articles
Year in review: Ciena’s 7 biggest announcements o ...
As we close out an unprecedented year, let’s look back at some of the biggest Ciena news and announcements from 2020.
Data Sheets
Virtual Container over Packet Transceiver T3/DS3
Ciena’s Virtual Container over Packet Transceivers enable cost-effective transport of T3 (DS3), OC-3/STM-1, and OC-12/STM-4 signa ...