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Ciena’s innovative portfolio drives leadership po ...

Omdia’s 2020 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard highlights Ciena’s continued optical innovation, new portfolio introductio ...

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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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Ciena’s Optical Summer Series 2020

Join our experts as they discuss strategies and drivers for change, as well as the latest innovations emerging in optical network ...

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Hawaiki: from canoes to connected broadband in th ...

Ciena's Brian Lavallée sat down recently with Hawaiki Chief Executive Officer, Rémi Galasso to discuss the firm’s mission to tran ...

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Next-generation networks help DOT’s deliver quali ...

Converged packet-optical technology enhances Department of Transportation’s intelligent transportation systems while paving the w ...

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Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier – First 800G Netw ...

Leading European operator takes important innovation step with Ciena to overcome the challenges of network scale, cost and effici ...

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How 3 technology advancements provide new options ...

To meet growing bandwidth demands, network providers do not always have the option to acquire or turn-up new fiber resources. Cie ...

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Telia Carrier Expands U.S. Footprint with Ciena

Coherent optical solution will double fiber capacity and support unpredictable bandwidth demands

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TasNetworks Deploys Ciena for Scalable Statewide ...

TasNetworks selected Ciena’s coherent optical solutions

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Designing for programmable infrastructures – adva ...

In this article, Patricia Bower reviews the advances made in electro-optical component design, the other critical constituent of ...

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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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The key ingredients you need to be the master che ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how operators can benefit from following the right recipe to automate the photonic layer.

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800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...

The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...

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Ciena Spectrum Sharing Handbook

This document describes concepts involved with Spectrum Sharing, including its technical and operational aspects.

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Ciena and Arista Complete Interoperability Testin ...

Ciena and Arista completed an interoperability test of the industry’s most dense and spectrally-efficient 400GbE transport soluti ...

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Data Sheets

PinPoint OTDR

Ciena's PinPoint OTDR creates a complete fiber loss profile—similar to taking a CT scan of the network—to precisely localize pote ...

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Single-wave 400G across 4,000km? Yes – with Ciena ...

Ciena’s popular family of Waveserver products just got a new member – Waveserver 5. With tunable capacity up to 800G and support ...

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Comcast and Ciena Achieve 600G Milestone Across 1 ...

Comcast recently conducted the world’s first long-distance 600Gbps single wavelength pilot deployment using WaveLogic 5 Extreme a ...

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Maximize Your Z-Series Photonic System Investment

The bandwidth demand on your network continues to grow relentlessly. Optimize capacity across your existing photonic system to ad ...

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Verizon transports 800 Gbps of data across a sing ...

Verizon and Ciena recently completed a test in Verizon’s live fiber network to move 800 Gbps of data on a single wavelength.

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Data Sheets

Waveserver 5 compact interconnect platform

Learn how Waveserver 5 empowers DCI with the best transport economics for high-capacity and high-growth apps. Deliver more 100/40 ...

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Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey – 87% Plan Aggregati ...

As part of the annual “Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey Report”, Heavy Reading surveyed over 200 respondents to get insights on Distr ...

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Southern Cross Achieves 800G with Ciena’s WaveLog ...

Southern Cross connected the first single-wavelength 800G across a live production network using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme cohe ...

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Building the Adaptive Network – starting with sil ...

Patricia Bower explores coherent DSP design - one of the primary tools network equipment designers have in order to enable progra ...

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