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How Does a Smart City Get Smarter?

As tech breakthroughs give rise to smart cities, providers are looking at Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to meet th ...

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Case Study

Powering a Bright Future with Carrier Ethernet

One of the nation’s largest electricity generators replaces SONET technology with modern, easy-to-manage infrastructure designed ...

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Infobrief

Adaptive Network: Automation Islands Webinar Recap

This document recaps the Webinar and explains the journey to automation and how to avoid building an automation island.

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Application note

A Practical Approach to Utility Network Moderniza ...

Ciena’s 6200 can provide a low-risk, seamless evolution to next-generation communication architectures while continuing to levera ...

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Case Study

All Aboard for Next-Generation Rail Communication

To make sure their lines run around the clock, rail operators are turning to cutting-edge networking equipment to keep trains and ...

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Video

Bridging the Gap Together, Delivering Broadband t ...

In this panel discussion, you’ll hear from a utility in Alabama (Cullman Electric) that launched scalable broadband to its rural ...

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Article

No network modernization job is too big or too sm ...

Ciena’s Wayne Hickey details how to transform your business with our field-proven TDM-to-Packet solutions.

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White Paper

Multi-service Substation WAN Backbone: Ready for ...

Broadband service deployment has historically been limited in rural communities, creating challenges for residents, especially du ...

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White Paper

Omdia: 100G Everywhere for Carriers and Enterpris ...

The 400G capability will be extended into the aggregation segment of the network to handle the growth of 100G access links.

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White Paper

A Smarter Communications Network for the Smart Gr ...

As electric utilities evolve to the smart grid, they need a comparable evolution of the underlying communications network.

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Application note

Blueprint for Utility Network Modernization: Cien ...

This paper explains how Ciena’s 6500 PTS solves multiple TDM-to-packet migration challenges.

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Case Study

Diamond State Networks Middle Mile Project for Ar ...

Ciena has helped build a carrier-grade, adaptive, and responsive middle-mile network that underpins connectivity for remote commu ...

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Webinar

Beyond PON: The Critical Role of Shared Fiber Acc ...

Understand why 10Gb/s Passive Optical Network (PON) is expanding beyond residential to small enterprises, businesses, and mobilit ...

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Webinar

Evolutionize: Adaptive IP for Segment Routing App ...

This webinar will explore how Ciena’s Adaptive IP leverages Centralized Segment Routing to evolve the network and make it more sc ...

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Webinar

Evolutionize: How Will Adaptive IP™ Change Your I ...

Learn how Ciena’s Adaptive IP can efficiently grow the IP network while eliminating complexity.

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Infobrief

There's No Place Like Home—With a Good Network Co ...

Residential users need broadband services that are reliable, high performance, secure, and highly cost-effective.

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Infobrief

How can Services make your WaveRouter deployment ...

Adding Ciena Services to your team along with a little added cost now will help you fully realize the benefits of this radically ...

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Video

Ciena visits ESL One - the newest sports tourname ...

Ciena takes you to ESL One, an esports tournament that’s streamed by millions around the world, to learn more about the newest sp ...

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Webinar

Network Modernization: Understanding Circuit and ...

Get an overview of circuit and pseudowire emulation and how to transport private line service over a packet-based network.

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Article

Can utilities have their multi-layered cake and e ...

Utilities are facing increasing bandwidth demands on their communications networks. This blog explains how modernizing networks t ...

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Application note

Modern, Agile Networks for the Super-high-bandwid ...

Rapid adoption of cloud services, video streaming, 4G and 5G wireless backhaul, and a range of other high-bandwidth applications ...

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eBook

Guide to Transforming Photonic Network Operations ...

Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum helps providers extract the full value of network assets across all stages of the photonic network lifecy ...

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Podcasts

Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 44: How AI is Res ...

On this Ciena podcast hear Colt’s Francesca Serravalle join Rick Hamilton of Blue Planet to shed light on new opportunities where ...

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Video

Evolutionize Your Network with Ciena's TDM-to-Pac ...

Ciena's CTO Steve Alexander talks about how Ciena TDM-to-Packet solutions, including the 6500 PTS, provides an elegant, simple ap ...

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