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Emulation Cloud
Emulation Cloud™ is an open application development environment and digital twin designed to help customers and verified third-pa ...
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Executive Summary - Analysys Mason: Converging IT ...
This paper assesses the value of a cloud-native platform for operational automation, which can be shared by IT and networking org ...
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Gaming at the Cloud Edge
Today's gamers are tied to a single platform, physical hardware, and long software download times. But gamers are demanding more ...

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Guiding the way to simplified operations – Ciena’ ...
Once again, we’re pleased to announce an open standards compliance for Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite (formerly known as ...
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Heavy Reading: Simplifying Operations with Multi- ...
The adoption of SDN domain controllers improves network management and should be a central element in an IT-based digital transfo ...

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How Financial Enterprises Light Up the Darkness
For some financial institutions, a private dark fiber network provides the control and security they require for data center conn ...

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How open standards in optical networks lead to de ...
A tongue-in-cheek saying is: ‘The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from’. Yet open standards play a ...
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Intelligent Data - Driven Operations with AIOps
In this white paper, Heavy Reading focuses on artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and the emerging role of AI in mu ...

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Intelligent multi-layer operations with Navigator ...
Learn how Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer networ ...

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Interoperability and innovation go hand-in-hand: ...
We’re pleased to announce that Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller has been awarded TIP’s Bronze Badge for c ...
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Introducing the Adaptive Network Vision
Users’ ever-increasing expectations—and the technology breakthroughs that continue to feed them—have created an unprecedented lev ...

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Introducing the industry's first 1.6Tb/s Coherent ...
Using an integrated WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) modem on WaveRouter and 6500, watch as the highly scalable coherent router (WaveRo ...

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IP and optical convergence success requires more ...
Key findings from Heavy Reading's third Open, Automated, & Programmable Transport Networks operator survey highlight the operatio ...
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IP Over Optical Transport—Delivering Optimal Resi ...
There exists a practical implementation of IP over optical convergence—proper shared risk management and alarm correlation to ach ...

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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another win ...
Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala e ...

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Keep it simple – debating coherent plugs versus t ...
Coherent Routing is a hot topic in the industry due to the promise of greater scalability, flexibility, and sustainability in the ...

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Looking to transform your network and service ope ...
Tim Pearson and Kailem Anderson discuss some of Ciena’s innovative AIOps use cases, and how AI, including ML and GenAI, significa ...

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MCP Applications Use Case : Pinpoint fiber faults
MCP Applications gives you the intelligent network control you need to pinpoint and resolve fiber faults quickly.

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MCP Applications Use Case : Troubleshoot Data Com ...
MCP Applications gives you the intelligent network control you need to troubleshoot DCN issues.

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MCP Applications use case: Manage multi-layer net ...
With MCP Applications, service providers gain multi-layer, intelligent network control to manage the full lifecycle of coherent r ...

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MCP Applications Use Case: Prevent optical networ ...
This video shows how MCP Applications simplify, accelerate, and automate operations to help you prevent optical network capacity ...

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MCP is an Intelligent Network Controller. What do ...
What is an Intelligent Network Controller? Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains the real value that lies behind this new term.

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Metro Scalability Today and Tomorrow
Enjoy the freedom to build to scale-today and tomorrow your next-generation metro capacity and traffic pattern needs with three f ...

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My operational costs keep going up – how can I ma ...
Answer: Invest in products where you can, customize operations solutions where you must. Said differently, stop building custom t ...