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Why SDN Domain Controllers are the essential link ...

Moving Software-Defined Networking (SDN) from trials to production brings efficiency, agility and significant cost savings to net ...

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What’s next for pluggable coherent optics

As Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Nano nears commercial availability, it is an ideal time to provide our outlook on the growing market for p ...

What is Ciena's AIOps Strategy?

This video explores how Ciena’s Navigator NCS multi-layer, multi-vendor controller combines deep IP-optical expertise with intell ...

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What is a network digital twin? And why is it rel ...

Ciena’s Mark Bieberich explores how network digital twins are even more relevant in the context of an AIOps strategy.

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Transforming photonic network operations with Liq ...

Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum Analytics Apps combine real-time analytics with increased automation to simplify operations and network a ...

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The winning hand in your network operations trans ...

How is Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan offering taking network operations to a new level of intelligent software control and aut ...

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The next AI frontier: AI agents who reason and ac ...

Reasoning is the third frontier of the AI era, following perception AI and generative AI (GenAI), with its proliferation of Large ...

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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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Sustainable Coherent Routing

Choose from three WaveRouter sizes for a sustainable network that fits perfectly with your specific power and space needs. Start ...

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Strengthen your advantage with Emulation Cloud an ...

In this final blog of the 4-part MCP Applications series, Marie Fiala describes the resources at your disposal to integrate, depl ...

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Smarter, greener, faster: The photonic layer’s ro ...

Paulina Gomez explains the critical role Ciena's programmable photonics are playing in the future of networking.

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Simplified management of multi-vendor, converged ...

Service providers want to simplify their network operations in order to drive efficiencies, but their strategies for managing coh ...

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Set yourself up for AIOps success with clean netw ...

AI promises to significantly enhance network operations. But is your network data clean enough to provide a solid foundation for ...

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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 ...

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Power smarter, more agile networks with a TDM mig ...

The gradual discontinuation of SONET/SDH and PDH equipment, mounting volumes of data, and other key factors are putting a signifi ...

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Pluggable coherent optics – What is the best mana ...

Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains why multi-layer controllers are best suited to help you plan, operate, and optimize optical performa ...

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Planning for success – AI insights drive coordina ...

IP and optical network teams each have their own domain technical expertise and at no time is that more obvious than during the c ...

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Pave your path to better broadband with Ciena’s N ...

In legacy broadband deployments, network operators had different network management systems for different network layers, putting ...

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Network management and control without the IT inf ...

As networks scale faster and AI-driven demands intensify, legacy on-premises management infrastructure is becoming a hidden const ...

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Navigator Network Control Suite Use Case: Prevent ...

This video shows how Navigator NCS Applications simplify, accelerate, and automate operations to help you prevent optical network ...