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Why 5G Will Change Everything About The Network
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée takes a deep dive into the coming world of 5G and shows why the exact details of what a 5G network will lo ...
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Global Cloud Xchange Upgrades Transatlantic Route ...
Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has deployed Ciena’s Packet Networking solutions to enable high-capacity Ethernet services on its tran ...
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Vendor of the Year: Ciena brings home 3 MEF award ...
The future of both Ciena and the networking industry was on display this week at the MEF’s GEN15 in Dallas, Texas.

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The Clock is Ticking for Utilities to Evolve from ...
Ciena’s Malcolm Loro details the discontinuation of these services is happening more suddenly than expected, and clearly nobody i ...
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GEN15: What the heck is a hackathon?
Interview with John Hawkins one of the industry’s foremost experts on Carrier Ethernet technology.
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Ciena obtains JITC certification, paves the way f ...
The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certification for our layer 2 Ethernet access and aggregation solutions gives DoD ...
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Ciena Advances Terabit Switch to Support Surging ...
Ciena added several new powerful hardware and software capabilities to its 5430 Packet-Optical Platform.
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Ciena Upgrades SK Telecom’s Network with Advanced ...
Ciena’s ® 5430 Packet-Optical Platform is being deployed by SK Telecom as it upgrades its nationwide infrastructure to deliver wi ...
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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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Switchboards and Ethernet Services: MEF streamlin ...
Like the telephone switchboards of old, today's Carrier Ethernet services many times require multiple network operators to get to ...
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Ovum ranks Ciena #1 worldwide in booming market f ...
Global analyst firm Ovum unveiled new numbers on the rapidly growing market for data center interconnect with Ciena sitting atop ...
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The 8700 Strikes Again: Two New Innovation Awards ...
Ciena’s new 8700 Packetwave Platform strikes again, back in the news after receiving two new industry innovation awards.
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Ciena goes web-scale with new coherent, metro and ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Ciena’s new products and solutions tailored for a new web-scale world.
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Ciena targets metro Ethernet market with new 8700 ...
Ciena has taken direct aim at the metro Ethernet market with today’s unveiling of the 8700 Packetwave Platform
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Are you asking these questions from potential MPL ...
Are you a transport or a mobile backhaul operator aiming to deploy an easy-to-operate Ethernet transport solution based on MPLS-T ...
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Ciena Builds Ultra-fast 400G Link and Demonstrate ...
Ciena today announced that its high-capacity packet switching and transport solutions are supporting the SCinet network at Superc ...
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Telefónica Global Solutions Expands SAm-1 Submari ...
Ciena’s 100G and intelligent OTN switching technologies add exponential capacity and flexibility to Telefónica Global Solutions’ ...
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Comcast Conducts Industry’s First Live 1Terabit N ...
Comcast and Ciena successfully completed a live field trial of a 1Terabit/sec (Tb/s) optical transmission spanning nearly 1,000 k ...
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Metrofibre Networx Selects Ciena’s Packet Network ...
South African independent telecommunications infrastructure operator relies on Ciena and Adcomtec to increase reliability and cap ...
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Ciena Expands Packet Networking Portfolio to Acce ...
Ciena announced new packet networking solutions designed to help network operators accelerate the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet ...
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Ritter Communications Ramps Network for 10GbE Ser ...
Ciena today announced that Ritter Communications will deploy Ciena’s new packet networking solutions to support growing customer ...
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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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Ciena Teams with R&E Networking Leaders to Bu ...
Fully operational research network gives Ciena R&D teams, research partners and customers a real-world environment to experience ...
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Ciena 6500: Extreme Packet Makeover Edition
It’s time to rethink everything you know about Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical Platform. You’ve known the 6500 as our flagship platfo ...