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Openness: Ciena’s guiding principle for customer ...

Ciena CEO Gary Smith details how the guiding principle of openness drives Ciena's innovation agenda and how we solve the challeng ...

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Network planning in times of acceleration and unc ...

Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna highlights 5 consistent best practices operators should consider when designing and planning their ne ...

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Is It Time to Replace Your Network's Annual Check ...

The evolution toward a more personalized health maintenance program will create an explosion of data putting more pressure on our ...

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Hacking Rome: Inside the MEF's latest Hackathon e ...

Here is the inside scoop on the recent MEF Hackathon event.

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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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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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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...

Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.

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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye

While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...

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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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Colt Expands Asia Pacific Network with Ciena

Colt Technology Services continues to invest in its core assets in the Asia Pacific region with the deployment of Ciena’s 6500 Co ...

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Chalk Talk - Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MC ...

Tim Pearson, Vice President of Product Management, explains how MCP’s automated operations provide service providers with crucial ...

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IHS Markit’s optical vendor survey is out: Ciena ...

Want to know what service providers really think of optical equipment vendors and their solutions? Here is a peek into IHS Markit ...

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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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When time is money, banks can’t afford a network ...

To deliver a higher quality customer experience, banks of all sizes are deploying innovative digital applications and partnering ...

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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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Automating the WAN with SDN – Avoiding “Hurry Up ...

“Hurry up and wait!” Too often, this is how pioneers in NFV-based services feel with WAN connectivity that takes weeks to be prov ...

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Indigo Submarine Cable Makes Waves with Ciena

In response to this growing trend, SUB.CO and its Australian entity APX Partners are teaming up with Ciena to upgrade its Indigo ...

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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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3 Keys to Having the Right APIs for SDN and NFV

We all understand the promise of SDN and NFV and its ability to unlock agility, flexibility and speed for the network

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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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Infobriefs

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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A packet networking blueprint, designed for 2020 ...

Supporting new and emerging high-growth applications requires rethinking how to modernize existing networks, according to Ciena’s ...

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Closing the Loop: Ciena closes acquisition of Cen ...

Ciena has officially closed the acquisition of Centina Systems, which will be integrated into our Blue Planet division. Kailem An ...

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Podcasts

Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 33: Celebrating t ...

Tune in as we revisit some of our favorite episodes from the past 3 years. We’ve covered a plethora of hot topics like esports, A ...

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