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Ciena’s Ultimate eBook Holiday Bundle is Back: 20 ...

Looking for some casual light reading this holiday season as you kick back in your favorite chair drinking eggnog? Well, look som ...

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Ciena’s WaveLogic 3 and Ericsson help Telstra ach ...

Ericsson today released the latest progress and accomplishments with its trans-Australian network deployment with Telstra – inclu ...

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Ciena’s WaveLogic3 recognised with industry award

Last night was an evening of celebration for Ciena as WaveLogic3 was again recognised with an industry award. Congratulations to ...

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Coherent comes to the data center: Meet Ciena’s 1 ...

Ciena's Helen Xenos explains the drivers and use cases of Ciena's 1.6T Coherent-Lite pluggable transceiver, the latest optical in ...

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Coherent optical turns 10: Here’s how it was made

This is the story of how a team of over 100 people in Ciena's R&D labs pulled together an impressive collection of technology inn ...

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Coherent Routing: A rapid evolution to IP/Optical ...

There’s way more to IP/Optical convergence than just a plug in a router. Scott McFeely Ciena’s SVP of Global Products & Services ...

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Connecting Data Centers Under the Sea

New submarine cables, especially those owned and operated by ICPs, should land in non-traditional locations that are closer to th ...

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Countdown to the General Data Protection Regulati ...

Ciena’s Raffi Varoujian, Co-Lead for Global Compliance and Data Privacy, discusses the upcoming GDPR, what it means and how optic ...

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Cut deployment time from weeks to hours with Navi ...

Historically, optical network deployments have been manual, error-prone, and time-consuming, potentially leaving some capacity un ...

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Cycle Slips: Not all coherent technology is creat ...

With more than ten years of development behind us, Ciena has engineered our coherent products from the ground up to eliminate fai ...

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DAA takes center stage at SCTE Cable-Tec 2018

Did you miss SCTE Cable-Tec Expo? Were you running from meeting to meeting and missing sessions? Ciena’s Darren McKinney has you ...

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Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the s ...

Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two st ...

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Designing for programmable infrastructures – adva ...

In this article, Patricia Bower reviews the advances made in electro-optical component design, the other critical constituent of ...

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Detailing Ciena’s massive new 15 Terabit OTN swit ...

This morning Ciena has unveiled a major update to our 5430 Packet-Optical Platform, giving it a massive upgrade to 15 Terabits of ...

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Detecting undersea earthquakes with cross-industr ...

Is it possible to detect undersea earthquakes and tsunamis without sensors attached to wet plants, old and new? Yes, by detecting ...

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Digital sustainability: calculating the green imp ...

How are network operators able to send 20 times more capacity over fiber – without seeing their power consumption and real estate ...

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Dissecting a submarine network trial announcement

With network infrastructure as critical as submarine cables, we’re constantly seeing new cables being announced and new technolog ...

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Don’t sell it short: 200G can extend far past the ...

Data Center Interconnect (DCI) isn't just about the metro anymore. That's why today we’re unveiling new capabilities that extend ...

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Doubling down on domain control with real-time in ...

Would you like the ability to complete your operational tasks quicker and more accurately, across multi-layer, multi-vendor netwo ...

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Ericsson and Ciena support Telstra to lay foundat ...

Telstra has announced it has selected Ericsson, using Ciena’s technology, for a three-year optical transmission network rollout a ...

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Fiber densification without complexity the goal o ...

To support the bandwidth demands on already taxed networks, providers are looking for solutions that can provide step-level impro ...

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Following the 3-pillar approach to effective secu ...

Large-scale data breaches are reported in the press almost daily, with devastating consequences for the organizations and individ ...

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Four Reasons You Want a Micro-Services Architectu ...

While the topic of container-based micro-services seems to have become a hot-topic overnight in the networking and telecom space, ...

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Fourth Generation 100GbE is the real deal. How we ...

Ciena’s Ivana Lemos explains how with Ciena’s new 8140 Coherent Metro Router you can meet new 100GbE requirements and satisfy you ...

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