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Lessons from #TMFLive: How the Pace of Operations ...
At last week’s TM Forum Live! event, executives did not shy away from the topic of rethinking their business models in order to a ...
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SDN control – 3 rules for successful deployment
When implementing SDN control in service provider optical networks, what works and what are the key architectural decisions on th ...
Videos
Fiber Deep: The Quality of Experience Opportunity
This video discusses how Cable operators are stepping us by simplifying operations with the goal of providing near-instant, high- ...
Press Releases
Ciena Publishes Sustainability Report
Ciena recently published its 2020 Sustainability Report that provides an update on its significant progress to help create a more ...
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6 Ciena Experts Predict What’s Next for 2018
Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give us their takes on this year’s hot trends.
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What is Distributed NFV and why do you need it?
Ciena's Brian Lavallée introduces the concept of Distributed NFV, or D-NFV, and why service providers are increasingly looking at ...
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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 ...
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TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both
Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...
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Ciena Emulation Cloud: A 12-Month Report Card
From cloud-based network lab validation to API training to multi-vendor introp testing, Ciena’s new Emulation Cloud environment h ...
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Current and future trends driving change in cable ...
Elias Cagiannos, Ciena's Cable MSO Practice Leader, talks BTR at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo about the current and future trends driv ...
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Blue Orbit: Best-of-Breed Building Blocks
Ciena Blue Planet has today added six new members to our Blue Orbit Ecosystem. Unlike other partner programs, 100% of the partner ...
White Papers
Heavy Reading: Achieving WAN Automation Today
This white paper provides an overview of SDN-based WAN automation and focuses on the drivers and benefits of WAN automation, the ...
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In the Lab: Liquid Spectrum: Photonic Performance ...
Ciena’s Alex Mackay provides an overview of Photonic Performance Gauge, the latest addition to Ciena’s family of Liquid Spectrum™ ...
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Best Practice Advice for Deploying SDN and NFV
Here is some advice for network operators looking to migrate to SDN and NFV.
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Ciena Adds Analytics to Blue Planet, Driving Busi ...
Ciena’s Blue Planet Analytics generates deep network insights through big data to help network operators make smarter, data-drive ...
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CORD hits all the right chords with ONOS
Just like how a good song sticks in your head, CORD is hitting all the right notes for network operators looking to re-architect ...
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9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet
Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet
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Ciena unveils a carrier-grade CPE for NFV
Since Ciena announced our NFV solution, Agility Matrix, in December, we have been quite busy working a variety of enhancements to ...
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Networking Solutions Address State Government Nee ...
State CIOs have witnessed aggressive change during the first half of 2020. The resulting uncertainties in government revenues hav ...
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5 key characteristics of a successful DevOps depl ...
DevOps enables better collaboration and thus improving operational efficiency, speeding innovation, and accelerating
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Gearing-up Cable MSOs for the move up-market
U.S. MSOs were experiencing double-digit business services growth; however, did you know that growth has slowed in recent years? ...
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Cyan
New Blue Planet business division to lead Company’s software activities to deliver greater efficiency, automation and agility of ...
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What is the “Right” Approach to Open Source?
So, here we go again. We in the telecom industry are looking at how to transform our networks with SDN, NFV and orchestration. Bu ...
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A DevOps Checklist for Traditional Service Provid ...
Can traditional services providers successfully implement a DevOps approach? There are five critical steps that need to be taken ...