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The Adaptive Network Is the Foundation of Persona ...
Whether students are learning from home or in the classroom, networks must be ready to support on-demand, bandwidth-hungry, low-l ...
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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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Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report November 2020
This Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report is produced by Light Reading and Heavy Reading in partnership with SCTE-ISBE. Ciena brin ...
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Traditional PON Versus Mixed PON/Active Architect ...
This business case outlines a pluggable mixed PON/active architecture based on Ciena’s Universal Aggregation solution, which allo ...
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Access Loop Model for the Economic Analysis and O ...
This white paper presents an access loop model that helps network operators address—and minimize—the major OSP cost challenge.
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Omdia Report: Are pluggable coherent modems ready ...
Read the report to learn how coherent pluggable modems apply for certain applications to meet each network’s requirements now and ...
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Ready for Fast and Unpredictable Change: How the ...
This paper is based on a nationwide CDG 2020 survey of nearly 100 state and local government IT leaders across government agencie ...
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Omdia: Future proofing optical networks with next ...
The proliferation of next-gen ROADMs is accelerating as network operators are beginning to understand the benefits of using wavel ...
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Practical Considerations for Near-Zero Margin Net ...
This paper examines this trend from the equipment design point of view and applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the problem of ...
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The Adaptive Network: A Framework for Understandi ...
From individual users binge-watching Over-The-Top video services to enterprises deploying Software as a Service, cloud services a ...
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Satellite Communications Market Growth
Ciena's Blue Planet software helps teleport operators overcome the myriad technical and business challenges they currently and co ...
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The Importance of Military Satellite Communication
Space Force ground stations are being challenged to manage ever more satellites, bandwidth, mission-critical applications, and se ...
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Omdia: 2020 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Score ...
This Scorecard evaluates the top optical network equipment vendors on criteria using concrete data and metrics, including direct ...
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Inventory as a Cyber Security Foundation
This paper examines some ways organizations attempt to manage inventory. It reviews three primary methods, their strengths and we ...
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self optimizing fabric wp
This paper examines how self-optimizing fabrics forming a nervous system for the world of interconnected smart things could help ...
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Broadband Success Partners: Cable Operators & ...
Broadband Success Partners interviewed 24 cable executives from network engineering and business services to capture their insigh ...
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Omdia: 800G Technology - Does Double Capacity Mea ...
Read the report to learn how 800G technology brings performance improvements, expanded capacity, and more cost-effective solution ...
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IHS Markit: 2019 Optical Equipment Vendor Leaders ...
This year’s survey report covers and elaborates on hot topics within the industry like Data Center Interconnect, optical network ...
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Cable's Fiber Outlook Survey Report January 2020
Although few cablecos have actually deployed Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) technology en masse yet, it's viewed by many c ...
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Gaming at the Cloud Edge
Today's gamers are tied to a single platform, physical hardware, and long software download times. But gamers are demanding more ...
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Why the time is now to transition TDM to IP
As legacy TDM networks reach end-of-life status, coupled with support personnel becoming increasingly scarce, service providers a ...
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Heavy Reading: The Transformation Choice - Data C ...
As the explosion of data continues, distributed cloud-native applications will dictate how and where data centers are built and d ...
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High-capacity Optical Link Budgeting for Next-gen ...
This paper deconstructs the conventional approach to optical power budgeting and introduces the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) as a ...
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A Model for Business Case Analysis of C/L-band Ne ...
This white paper presents a model for the analysis of C/L-band business cases, with the objective of enabling network operators