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WaveLogic Ai FOTR Modules

The WaveLogic Ai FOTR modules are highly dense optical transponder and service channel interfaces that enable a more programmable ...

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Application Notes

Enabling a Bigger and Smarter Network with Ciena' ...

Ciena has developed WaveLogic 3, a technology foundation for the industry’s first intelligent transceiver. WaveLogic 3 makes it p ...

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Infobriefs

The Network Modernization Imperative

To meet growing bandwidth demands, carriers need networks that can adapt to new business models, scale on demand to support new s ...

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Infobriefs

Encryption Testing and Certification

This document describes the concerns surrounding encryption solution testing, and the external certification processes available ...

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Articles

500G transpacific. Yep, we did that!

The news from SubOptic? Let’s start with our successful single-wavelength 500G field trial over a 9,000km transpacific cable. Cie ...

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Videos

In The Lab - What Is Soft FEC

In this video Michael Hubbard introduces Soft Forward Error Correction (Soft-FEC) using an example of coherent optical transport ...

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Brochures

WaveLogic Photonics Coherent Select

Purpose-built for high-capacity access, aggregation, and distribution networks, Ciena’s WaveLogic Photonics Coherent Select is an ...

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Application Notes

Simplifying Optical Networking through Adaptive, ...

Bandwidth demands are exploding in a variety of applications, and network operators are struggling to scale network capacity to p ...

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Infographics and posters

Data Security Risks Lurk Everywhere

In a world where the risks to your data lurk everywhere and the stakes to your future have never been higher, it's essential to p ...

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Articles

400G Industry Adoption is Taking Off

The adoption of 400G is ramping up. Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a look at how this compares with adoption rates of technology in th ...

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Data Sheets

DTM-100G2 Coherent 100G Transponder Module produc ...

The DTM-100G2 is a single-slot 100G coherent transponder module for Ciena’s Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform.

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Webinars

Optical Networking Back-to-School 2018

Ciena’s comprehensive Optical Network Master Class Series gives the insights you need to understand how a programmable infrastruc ...

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Articles

#Ciena25: The Story Behind the Founding of Ciena

2017 marks Ciena's 25-year anniversary. Here's the story of how it all started back in 1992, with four founding members and a new ...

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Videos

Take 10 Webinar: More Packets Less Box

In this installment, you will learn about the latest campaign around Ciena's Packet Networking portfolio from John Hawkins, Ciena ...

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Articles

Blog Series | Transform your network operations w ...

Did you know Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to boost business agility and su ...

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Infobriefs

Liquid Spectrum. Let the Benefits Flow.

Improved visibility. Automated processes. And increased network capacity and service availability from any given WDM investment. ...

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Articles

Securing the Cloud Between Data Centers

As applications increasingly communicate between different locations – is that data secure? Kent Jordan explains how Layer 1 encr ...

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Data Sheets

8180 Coherent Networking Platform

Ciena’s 8180 Coherent Networking Platform combines industry-leading capacity with embedded intelligence of WaveLogic coherent tra ...

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Podcasts

Celebrating National Engineering Month

Ciena’s Michael Hubbard, Dave Doucet, and Melissa Trezise share why they became optical and software engineers, what keeps them m ...

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Articles

The Top 3 Take-Aways from NGON 2017

What does lemon pie have to do with next-gen optical network architectures? Quite a bit actually, explains Ciena's Helen Xenos.

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Webinars

On Demand Webinar: Build it Once, Sell It Three T ...

Join Omdia and Ciena for an exploration into market insights, benefits, and practicalities of building a single, highly efficient ...

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Infobriefs

WaveLogic 5 Nano 100G-400G Transceivers

Ciena's WaveLogic™ 5 Nano family of standards-based and extended-reach 100G-400G pluggable transceivers incorporates our advanced ...

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Videos

Ciena WaveLogic 5. Innovation. Performance. Any f ...

With WaveLogic™ 5, you can have advanced technology designs to provide the best network economics for all your applications: netw ...

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Articles

Reducing the High Cost of Coaxial Cable

By driving optical fiber deeper, cable operators can improve performance and reliability, increase capacity, become eco-friendlie ...

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