Latest State and local government
White Papers
Defending the Smart City
With all the hype around ‘Smart’ Cities, you would think they are ubiquitous. With their many potential threats to the network ut ...
Videos
Managed Spares and Engineering Dispatch
Managed Spares and Engineering Dispatch to ensure replacements of failed equipment are performed quickly and accurately by our ex ...
Infobriefs
Transportation Network Modernization
To overcome these growing challenges and fully capture the benefits of ITS technologies, departments of transportation need a mod ...
Application Notes
Protecting In-Flight Data: Network Encryption for ...
Modern government depends increasingly on the secure collection and distribution of information among agencies and citizens. At t ...
Application Notes
WaveLogic Encryption Solution
Read this application note to find out more about WaveLogic Encryption, Ciena’s cost-effective, high-capacity, protocol-agnostic, ...
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 ...
Case Studies
The Town of Dryden Delivers Rural Broadband to Dr ...
In today’s technology driven world, how people live, work, and play is becoming increasingly dependent on reliable and fast acces ...
Articles
Smart Transit: Moving Beyond Points A and B
Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains smart transit, the smart rail experience of the future is a fully integrated experience.
Case Studies
Northwest Colorado Council of Governments: Projec ...
Ciena has helped build a carrier-grade, responsive, middle-mile network that underpins connectivity for remote communities across ...
Infobriefs
The Middle Mile: A Critical Link for Broadband Ex ...
Middle-mile fiber optic networks are crucial to delivering broadband connectivity and digital inclusion to rural communities.
Infobriefs
Moving Forward with Modernization for State Gover ...
Ciena’s Adaptive Network enables state and local government IT teams to consolidate disparate platforms and networks across agenc ...
Infobriefs
Government Agencies and the Edge: The Power of Vi ...
IT infrastructure at the edge is essential to day-to-day government operations. Application servers et al keep remote agency loca ...
Infobriefs
Scaling for the Next Giant
In the recent Light Reading webinar entitled, Ciena's Senior VP and CTO, Steve Alexander, examined three real-world case studies ...
Articles
No network modernization job is too big or too sm ...
Ciena’s Wayne Hickey details how to transform your business with our field-proven TDM-to-Packet solutions.
Infobriefs
New Network Builds: Strategies for closing the di ...
With a spate of federal funding available, states and localities are considering new fiber network builds to address urgent chall ...
Infobriefs
There's No Place Like Home—With a Good Network Co ...
Residential users need broadband services that are reliable, high performance, secure, and highly cost-effective.
Articles
The 5G Smart City: Cities are Lining up for a Sli ...
Smart Cities are coming, and 5G network slicing technology will enable them, with its ability to enable the critical services tha ...
White Papers
SDN and NFV: The Brains Behind the Smart City
In major metropolitan areas and smaller cities alike, governments are considering SDN and NFV to deliver the agility and flexibil ...
Articles
Adaptive Learning is the Future of Education. Are ...
Educators are increasingly leaning on EdTech and Adaptive Learning tools that personalize and improve the student learning experi ...
Infographics and posters
How the Adaptive Network Can Help Save America's ...
Ciena’s Adaptive Network provides the technology foundation needed to simplify, scale, and automate today’s ITS and make our road ...
Infobriefs
Build-Your-Own Broadband: The Key to High-Speed A ...
Discover how a build-your-own model could revolutionize broadband expansion in underserved areas.
Application Notes
Building Better Networks for State and Local Gove ...
Networking technology offers an opportunity to provide better service with lower taxpayer cost. A modern, converged network utili ...
Articles
Fixed wireless access + fiber = smart, connected ...
The investment needed to improve and repair public physical transportation infrastructure for things like roads, bridges, and hig ...
Articles
SDN: a not-so-secret ingredient for transforming ...
Software-defined networking or SDN is the key to opening up ICT change programmes.