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A Guide to Avoiding Automation Islands

Autonomous networking is all the rage. Networking vendors are touting their automation visions, and service providers are creatin ...

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Meet the Ciena Cares Champions

We’re shining a light on our Ciena Cares Champions—the people who drive our workplace giving and volunteering programs for their ...

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MEF16: We have a winner!

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet division details the multi-vendor Proof of Concept demo the team conducted with CenturyLink and ...

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A look back on doing good in 2023

We’re looking back on all the good our Ciena team members did for our communities and our planet in 2023.

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Virtualize Your Submarine Cable

Ongoing growth in subsea bandwidth demand has the industry looking for new technologies that can further expand submarine cable c ...

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Helping kids walk with the CHEO Foundation

Learn how our Ciena team in Ottawa donated a life-changing robot walker and continue to support CHEO, a global leader in pediatri ...

4 Things We Learned at #OFC17

From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...

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Virtualizing the World of Cable

It’s not surprising that cable operators are virtualizing their networks. Not only is it the logical step to reduce power and sav ...

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Innovation and Collaboration: Researching AI with ...

Discover how a collaboration between our research and development team and the University of Ottawa led to innovative new breakth ...

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Retail Digitization… Friend or Foe?

The online world is acting as a disruptor to the retail industry. But the same tools that allow consumers to become increasingly ...

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Recognizing Asian Heritage Month 2024 with our ne ...

Meet some of the members of our newest employee resource group, Asian at Ciena, in celebration of Asian Heritage Month.

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Visualizing the Future of Networking

Ciena has unveiled Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), providing real-time software control and advanced visualization ac ...

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Ciena Ottawa engineers 3D print components for Co ...

Ciena’s mechanical engineering and NPI teams, already on the lookout for ways to support health care workers, stepped up help the ...

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4 Reasons Enterprises Love SD-WAN

Lee Doyle of Doyle Research explains why SD-WAN services are so attractive to enterprises, and what service providers can do to r ...

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Career insights: Supporting our people in explori ...

At Ciena, we encourage and support our people in pursuing their passions. Carla Martinez, Leader of Diversity, Equity, and Inclus ...

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Finding the right fit: Stories from early career ...

Two early in career team members share their stories of how inclusion helped them choose Ciena as their workplace.

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AutoHack18: Unleashing the Power of Open Platform ...

Ciena is collaborating with University of Melbourne's Networked Society Institute (NSI) and nbn for AutoHack18, a unique extended ...

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6 ways to boost your success with network orchest ...

Software is a critical asset for operators looking to support exponential traffic growth and deliver complex IoT and 5G use cases ...

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How to differentiate your customer experience wit ...

Ciena’s Joe Marsella, points out that when it comes to delivering a winning customer experience and staying ahead of your competi ...

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Delivering high-bandwidth, revenue-generating ser ...

Frank Miller, CTO EMEA at Ciena, explains how operators can automate service provisioning and turn-up to boost efficiency, and sp ...

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#Ciena25: Best Wishes from Some Amazing Customers ...

November officially marks Ciena's 25th anniversary. To kick off the month, a few of our customers sent over some kind words as a ...

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Ciena unveils Liquid Spectrum: The future of soft ...

For all the “agile” innovation over the last decade, today's optical networks are still predominantly static. This changes with C ...