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SDN control – 3 rules for successful deployment
When implementing SDN control in service provider optical networks, what works and what are the key architectural decisions on th ...
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SDN NFV Glossary
This glossary, brought to you by Ciena, has all the terms you need to know to navigate the SDN and NFV industry.
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SDN/NFV - Singin’ By the Campfire
This session looks forward and tries to answer what’s next for SDN/NFV.
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SDN: a not-so-secret ingredient for transforming ...
Software-defined networking or SDN is the key to opening up ICT change programmes.
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Segra Adds Major Regional Transport Network Power ...
Segra, one of the largest independent fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S., announced a major expansion o ...
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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
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Service Providers Name Ciena Leading Optical Vend ...
2016 study reports service provider perceptions of optical equipment suppliers; Ciena claims top spot in key categories
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Sify Technologies to Deliver 400G-ready Metro Net ...
Sify Technologies Limited has selected Ciena’s converged packet optical solutions to address rising customer demand
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Software-Defined Control – Brought to You by the ...
SDN is an enabling technology for network transformation, but it is not a one-size-fits-all model. Models vary based on the curre ...
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South Africa’s DFA Automates and Virtualises Serv ...
Dark Fibre Africa, South Africa's leading provider of open-access fibre infrastructure, is deploying Ciena’s® Blue Planet orchest ...
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Southern Cross Launches ‘Elastic’ Transoceanic Ba ...
Blue Planet V-WAN solution increases network flexibility; allows customers to request bandwidth at set levels, anytime, anywhere..
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Spark starts roll out of new faster, ‘self healin ...
The new Optical Transport Network will support faster restoration of service and increased capacity for Spark’s 5G roll out
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Spotlight on 4G/5G fronthaul networks
Not sure what xHaul is or why it's critical to the success of 5G? How should operators, MNOs and wholesalers alike, converge 4G a ...
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Strengthen your advantage with Emulation Cloud an ...
In this final blog of the 4-part MCP Applications series, Marie Fiala describes the resources at your disposal to integrate, depl ...
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Survey says - service providers are ready for the ...
What are service providers looking for when it comes to IP/Optical convergence? Heavy Reading asked 220 service provider executiv ...
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Survey: Network operators still see silos with SD ...
Perceived vendor silos are still an issue for network operators looking to move to SDN/NFV for service virtualization. That’s jus ...
eBooks
Telecom Acronyms Guide
The fourth edition of The Acronyms Guide, brought to you by Ciena, is a handy guide to help you decipher the telecom industry's a ...
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Telefónica Deutschland Builds Automated Network w ...
Telefónica Deutschland, a leading integrated telecommunications provider, has selected software from Blue Planet, a division of C ...
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Telesat Selects Ciena for Low Earth Orbit Terrest ...
Telesat is deploying Routing and Switching platforms from Ciena for its Telesat Lightspeed terrestrial backhaul network.
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Telstra, Ericsson and Ciena achieve world’s faste ...
Telstra, Ericsson, and Ciena today announced they had successfully demonstrated 400 gigabit per second (Gbps) speeds over 61.5 GH ...
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The Adaptive Network: Why automation alone isn’t ...
The technology behind the data collected about us enables information to be collected, analysed, and actioned to provide us with ...
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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks
Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...
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The Arrival of Open Utility Networks
The utility industry is undergoing a comprehensive transformation as it modernizes to a more efficient and smarter grid. Because ...
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The Benefits of Distributed Network Functions Vir ...
With the Ciena D-NFV Solution, customers can choose location, cost, and scale to match their service needs from their provider.