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Our involvement with AT&T’s 400GbE trial and ...
AT&T has successfully trialed 400GbE across its production network. Helen Xenos details how Ciena helped make it happen, and what ...

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Our Gift to You: Ciena's Ultimate eBook Holiday B ...
Just in time for the holidays, we've made our three most popular technology eBooks available for download, and added two new refe ...
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OTN vs SONET/SDH: Comparing the differences
After nearly 25 years since the introduction of SONET/SDH, the evolution of these standards has ceased, and the majority of SONET ...

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OTN Services
Ciena's Manuel Damas talks to Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock on Optical Transport Network (OTN) services.
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Optimizing Performance in High Speed Networks
In this webinar, Ciena, a leading provider of telecommunications equipment, and EXFO, a well-established supplier of test and mea ...
Infographics and posters
Optical Transport Network
The Optical Transport Network (OTN) defined in ITU G.709. Download this infographic for a deep dive into this crucial technology.

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Optical reloaded: A tale of two networks
Introducing software-defined optical, delivered by Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum, Liquid Spectrum allows you to tune, control, and dyna ...
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Optical Networks: Evaluating Your Options in an O ...
This webinar provides an overview of different architectures and approaches for next-generation optical network design including ...
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Optical Networking Back-to-School 2018
Ciena’s comprehensive Optical Network Master Class Series gives the insights you need to understand how a programmable infrastruc ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Leveraging network ...
Ciena's David Boertjes explains how analytics can help monitor and control the the signal-to-noise ratio margin and David Côté ex ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: How near-zero marg ...
Ciena’s Paulina Gomez introduces our “Optical Network Expert Series: A guide to improving future network economics with near-zero ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Guide to improving ...
Over the past several years, coherent technology advancements have enabled providers to meet increasing capacity demands while co ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Designing programm ...
Ciena’s optical network expert, David Boertjes, discusses the programmable infrastructure needed to achieve a near-zero margin ne ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Applying AI to max ...
David Côté explains how artificial intelligence is being applied to maximize network capacity and quality of transmission.

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Optical Infrastructure Blog | Ciena
With recent advances in optical technology, CSPs can reap greater efficiencies out of their existing fiber and better automate tr ...
Press Release
Openreach Boosts Connectivity Services for UK Car ...
Openreach is deploying Ciena’s Routing and Switching and WaveLogic Ai- based coherent optical platforms to efficiently increase n ...

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Opening Up Networks To Choice, At Last
In a world that was previously incapable of being software-driven, fully-integrated solutions once upon a time made sense.
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Open, Automated, & Programmable Transport Net ...
This white paper provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of open, automated, and pr ...
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ONOS framework builds out SDN ecosystem
Read Q&A conversation on Open Network Operating System – or ONOS – backed by ON.Lab.

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One year of Programmable 400G: Insights into how ...
It has been one year since we started shipping our WaveLogic Ai coherent optical technology! Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a moment t ...

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On the Submarine Network Horizon in 2019
Submarine networking operators continue to need new innovations in order to meet the evolving needs of this critical infrastructu ...
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On Demand Webinar: Build it Once, Sell It Three T ...
Join Omdia and Ciena for an exploration into market insights, benefits, and practicalities of building a single, highly efficient ...
White Paper
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 ...
White Paper
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 ...