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From Land to Sea to Cloud

It’s projected that Internet Content Providers will soon account for the majority of submarine traffic in all regions of the worl ...

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Diving into the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Se ...

Join Jon Hjembo of TeleGeography and Brian Lavallée of Ciena for an update on the latest data center trends driving subsea connec ...

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What is spectrum sharing?

Spectrum sharing is the logical partitioning of optical spectrum on a submarine cable for different end-users, such that each end ...

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Very Hot! Muito Quente! Muy Caliente!

With tens of thousands of new kilometers and over a billion dollars of capital investment planned in new submarine cables – the L ...

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Eastern Light Deploys Ciena GeoMesh in Northern E ...

Sweden’s Eastern Light, a company building a series of new, international, submarine fiber-optic cable routes in northern Europe, ...

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6 Ciena Experts Predict What’s Next for 2018

Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give us their takes on this year’s hot trends.

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What is L-band?

L-band, or long band, is a wavelength band immediately adjacent to the Conventional band (C-band) initially used to expand the ca ...

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Virtualize Your Submarine Cable

Ongoing growth in subsea bandwidth demand has the industry looking for new technologies that can further expand submarine cable c ...

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Ciena GeoMesh Extreme Solution Helps Submarine Ca ...

Ciena is introducing new capabilities that allow submarine cable operators to better address surging bandwidth demand driven by v ...

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Q&A with EXFO: Understanding Submarine OSNR

In advance of PTC’18, Ciena’s Brian Lavallée sat down with Jean-Sébastien Tassé of EXFO to discuss the importance and intricacies ...

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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 8 Announcements of 20 ...

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2017.

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Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 4: Why Cyber Secu ...

In this National Cyber Security Awareness Month edition of Network Insights, we'll look at the rise of cyberattacks, government l ...

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The Internet Under the Sea

Ciena developed a unique and revolutionary new submarine network architecture called GeoMesh; changing how cable operators run th ...

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Meet the People who brought 400G to Optical

How do you deliver innovation that brings tremendous value to customers 1 year earlier? You use a team that has done it before wi ...

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Back to the Future(com)

The tech and telecom industry descends on São Paulo, Brazil, this week for Futurecom 2017. Ciena's Brian Lavallée details the lat ...

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Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?

There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...

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Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 3: Submarine Netw ...

On the podcast today, Brian Lavallee is here to talk about the role of submarine, and the work Ciena is doing with coherent techn ...

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Ciena to Showcase Innovations that Boost Capacity ...

Attendees at Submarine Network World 2017 will be able to hear Ciena insights into the latest trends, challenges and opportunitie ...

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What are advanced analytics in optical networking?

Advanced analytics take advantage of new in-service monitoring capabilities, programmable settings, and integrated instrumentatio ...

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Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 2 - Episode 2: Ba ...

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda about digital education in general – how schools can provide it, the tech investments they need to make ...

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Why Submarine Networking?

Submarine networks have undergone a monumental transformation in the last several years, and the lines between terrestrial and su ...

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Why Geomesh

GeoMesh Extreme is an open network architecture that integrates the best in hardware, software, and professional services to enab ...

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What is GeoMesh Extreme?

GeoMesh Extreme optimizes and protects your submarine network. Discover how it creates a global mesh so you can securely, sustain ...

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How GeoMesh Extreme Works

GeoMesh Extreme is an end-to-end network architecture, overland and undersea, that unites hardware, software, and professional se ...

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