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3 Key Research Trends Poised to Change Our Lives

Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three key trends in research enabled by supercomputing and the networks that connect them that wi ...
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What is the “Right” Approach to Open Source?

So, here we go again. We in the telecom industry are looking at how to transform our networks with SDN, NFV and orchestration. Bu ...
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5 key characteristics of a successful DevOps depl ...

DevOps enables better collaboration and thus improving operational efficiency, speeding innovation, and accelerating
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Remember the big picture when scaling your network

Today’s customers are truly asking for a change, putting new demands on the network. The service provider that is able to evolve ...
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Hyped to Death: AI Must Avoid Becoming a Cliché

AI use by telcos and providers can potentially improve customer service, speed onboarding, and reduce outages by pro-actively ide ...
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What is Distributed NFV and why do you need it?

Ciena's Brian Lavallée introduces the concept of Distributed NFV, or D-NFV, and why service providers are increasingly looking at ...
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Chalk Talk - Distributed Network Functions Virtua ...

John Hawkins, Ciena’s resident Ethernet guru, explains how D-NFV works and the value of the technology to enterprise IT and netwo ...
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A DevOps Checklist for Traditional Service Provid ...

Can traditional services providers successfully implement a DevOps approach? There are five critical steps that need to be taken ...
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Gearing-up Cable MSOs for the move up-market

U.S. MSOs were experiencing double-digit business services growth; however, did you know that growth has slowed in recent years? ...
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9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet

Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet
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JSA Virtual CEO Roundtable: SDN and NFV - Myths a ...

This virtual roundtable features Niloufar Tayebi, Director, Global Consulting Enterprise and Cloud Services of Ciena and Dean Cam ...
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Fewer Pizza Boxes: How Virtualization Creates Opp ...

This paper describes how freeing software from hardware is a great business opportunity for service providers.
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NFV/SDN eBook: The Perfect Storm of Opportunity i ...

Get your questions answered with Ciena's new NFV and SDN Guide for Carriers and Service Providers, with 35+ pages of insights fro ...
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Why Adaptive is the biggest story in networking

Joe Cumello explains why autonomous networking alone is not enough, and introduces Ciena’s Adaptive Network, which combines the r ...
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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.
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How governments can solve layer 3 network complex ...

What if government agencies could monitor and analyze their IP networks to ensure peak efficiency and service continuity—all whil ...
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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 ...
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The Reality of Applying SDN WAN in R&E Networ ...

Many R&E networks are at the forefront of SDN deployments, but now risk replacing hardware silos with software silos via a multi- ...
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AutoHack18: Delivering a positive social impact t ...

Ciena is proud to collaborate with the University of Melbourne's Networked Society Institute and NBN Co on Autohack18, where inte ...
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When it comes to 5G, the only path that matters i ...

The closed and proprietary mobile networks of the past aren’t welcome any longer. Find out how Ciena is helping customers benefit ...
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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 6 Announcements of 20 ...

As 2016 comes to a close, we take a look back at the biggest news from a big year here at Ciena.
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Ovum Survey: What the market is saying about D-NFV

A new Ovum survey of 200 enterprise decision-makers provides some surprising insights on their views of Distributed NFV.
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Year in review: Ciena’s 6 biggest announcements o ...

As we close out another year (and the decade), let’s look back at some of the biggest Ciena news and announcements from 2019.
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Outsmarting Networking Complexity with Intelligen ...

Network complexity is increasing exponentially, creating intense challenges in managing the explosive growth of end-points. Intel ...
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