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GeoMesh Extreme:
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée delves into the depths of submarine networks and their importance to global communications, and how Ciena’ ...
Articles
The Journey to 800G and Beyond
This blog originally appeared on Zayo's website. The road to innovation begins with a map. Sometimes it’s figurative — a roadmap ...
Data Sheets
WaveLogic Ai MOTR Modules
Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai MOTRs are optical transponder and service channel interfaces that enable a more programmable infrastructure.
Data Sheets
WaveLogic Ai FOTR Modules
The WaveLogic Ai FOTR modules are highly dense optical transponder and service channel interfaces that enable a more programmable ...
Application Notes
Enabling a Bigger and Smarter Network with Ciena' ...
Ciena has developed WaveLogic 3, a technology foundation for the industry’s first intelligent transceiver. WaveLogic 3 makes it p ...
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500G transpacific. Yep, we did that!
The news from SubOptic? Let’s start with our successful single-wavelength 500G field trial over a 9,000km transpacific cable. Cie ...
Data Sheets
5430 Packet-Optical Platform
Ciena۪'s 5430 Packet-Optical Platform is the industry's first multi-terabit packet-optical switching platform that transforms net ...
White Papers
Coherent Optics: 100G, 400G, & Beyond
This white paper provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of coherent optical transm ...
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Ciena’s 2018 Holiday Bundle is Here!
Spend your downtime this holiday season applying the collective knowledge of some of the world’s best and brightest minds in tele ...
Brochures
WaveLogic Photonics Coherent Select
Purpose-built for high-capacity access, aggregation, and distribution networks, Ciena’s WaveLogic Photonics Coherent Select is an ...
Articles
Packet Cable Landing Stations… Why Not?
As submarine traffic is increasingly dominated by packets going forward, native packet switches will eventually relegate SIE to t ...
Articles
400G Industry Adoption is Taking Off
The adoption of 400G is ramping up. Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a look at how this compares with adoption rates of technology in th ...
Data Sheets
DTM-100G2 Coherent 100G Transponder Module produc ...
The DTM-100G2 is a single-slot 100G coherent transponder module for Ciena’s Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform.
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#Ciena25: The Story Behind the Founding of Ciena
2017 marks Ciena's 25-year anniversary. Here's the story of how it all started back in 1992, with four founding members and a new ...
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What is an Optical Control Plane?
To help clarify the question of “what is an optical control plane?”, we put together the below infographic that walks through the ...
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Securing the Cloud Between Data Centers
As applications increasingly communicate between different locations – is that data secure? Kent Jordan explains how Layer 1 encr ...
Data Sheets
Converged Packet Optical Products
Ciena's Converged Packet Optical Portfolio uses technology innovation to maximize network scale and programmability.
Podcasts
Celebrating National Engineering Month
Ciena’s Michael Hubbard, Dave Doucet, and Melissa Trezise share why they became optical and software engineers, what keeps them m ...
Articles
SC17: Super Networks for Super Computers
The SC17 conference provides a perfect opportunity to experience the intersection of high-performance computing with high-perform ...
Data Sheets
6500-D7/S8 Packet-Optical Platform
Designed for modernized network applications, the 6500-D7/S8 configurations converge comprehensive Ethernet, TDM, and WDM capabil ...
Data Sheets
8180 Coherent Networking Platform
Ciena’s 8180 Coherent Networking Platform combines industry-leading capacity with embedded intelligence of WaveLogic coherent tra ...
Infographics and posters
Not all 400G pluggables are created equal
Not all 400G pluggables are created equal. Achieve industry-leading pluggable performance with trusted WaveLogic™ technology.
Articles
SONET/SDH is dead – really this time
The age of SONET and SDH networks is nearing an end, for real this time. In the latest reports from Infonetics and Dell’Oro, both ...
Data Sheets
2xCFP2/QSFP28 OTN Flex MOTR Module
Designed for next-generation access/metro applications, the 2xCFP2/QSFP28 Optical Transport Network (OTN) Flex MOTR modules are a ...