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Chalk Talk - Coherent Optical Technology
John Sitch provides and overview of Coherent Technology.
Webinars
Coherent Optical Report Card
The optical landscape is undergoing many changes with network providers looking to deploy coherent technology across new applicat ...
Articles
Ciena unveils WaveLogic Ai: Massive scale and aut ...
Ciena has unveiled WaveLogic Ai, our next generation WaveLogic coherent optical chipset. WaveLogic Ai delivers a combination of s ...
Articles
What is Fiber Densification?
There is a new term that is increasingly cropping up in networking conversations: densification. Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains wha ...
Press Releases
Ciena and British Telecom Continue Optical Networ ...
BT has agreed to a five-year contract renewal with Ciena to deploy its 6500 Converged Packet Optical Platform.
Videos
High Speed Data Converters
Bruce Beggs provides an overview of the importance of High Speed Data Converters.
Articles
Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?
There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...
Articles
Ciena’s WaveLogic: Accelerating connectivity and ...
Amid a surge of new investments and construction in data centers, Southeast Asian nations are joining together to make significan ...
Articles
Updated: 800G – nothing but the facts
If you have been following Ciena, you know 800G adoption is underway. With that comes a lot of interest and questions. Ciena’s He ...
Videos
Chalk Talk - Flexible Coherent Architectures
Dave Boertjes provides an overview of Flexible Coherent Architectures.
Articles
Celebrating the Rise of 400G
The era of 400G was in full force at OFC and we took some time to celebrate this milestone. Here are what our customers have to s ...
Press Releases
SingAREN Builds Higher Speed, More Resilient Netw ...
SingAREN has deployed Ciena's 6500 packet-optical platform to deliver reliable high-speed connectivity for data-intensive science ...
Articles
From Land to Sea to Cloud
It’s projected that Internet Content Providers will soon account for the majority of submarine traffic in all regions of the worl ...
Videos
ChalkTalk OneConnect: Ciena's Intelligent Control ...
Ciena's OneConnect is a control plane that makes your network more intelligent and easier to use so you can turn up services quic ...
Articles
What is Gridless Networking?
What is gridless networking? Brian Lavallée, who heads up submarine networks industry marketing for Ciena, provides some insight.
Application Notes
Converged OT/IT Intelligence
Real-time, self-discovering, self-healing, self-configuring networks are becoming reality. This new intelligence allows network o ...
Press Releases
Neos Networks Deploys Blue Planet to Automate Ser ...
Neos Networks is deploying software from Blue Planet to ensure better end-to-end visibility across its network and improved flexi ...
Articles
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 ...
Infobriefs
WaveLogic™ 5 Nano 100G/200G Standard CFP2-DCO and ...
WaveLogic 5 Nano CFP2-DCO is supported across Ciena’s Converged Packet Optical and Packet Networking portfolios in various system ...
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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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Navigating vendor equipment swaps: Minimizing ris ...
Vendor equipment swaps are typically complex from a technical as well as an operational standpoint due to the need to ensure netw ...
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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 ...
Podcasts
Episode 18: Ciena Announces WaveLogic 5
Scott McFeely and Dino DiPerna take listeners behind-the-scenes on Ciena’s latest technology breakthrough – WaveLogic 5
Articles
Autonomous Networks… Are You Ready?
Ciena's Brian Lavallée explains where we are (and where we're going) on the road to autonomous networks.