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Celebrating 60 Years of Protecting Submarine Cabl ...

The International Cable Protection Committee plays a critical role in protecting the world's subsea cable networks, and it's abou ...

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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 ...

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Angola Cables Selects Ciena for MONET Subsea Cabl ...

Angola Cables has selected Ciena’s GeoMesh and Blue Planet solutions to support its new service launch on the MONET subsea cable.

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8 Incredible Facts You Didn’t Know About Submarin ...

Ciena's subsea expert Brian Lavallée tests your knowledge of the world of submarine cable networks with this list of facts and fi ...

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Quintillion Selects Ciena to Provide Foundation f ...

Quintillion is deploying Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform to support the first phase of its 15,000-kilometer intercontinental sub ...

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Submarine Cable Networks, Open for Business

Open Cables, APIs, and big data analytics have and will continue to change everything going forward, says Ciena's Brian Lavallee, ...

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Southern Cross Launches ‘Elastic’ Transoceanic Ba ...

Blue Planet V-WAN solution increases network flexibility; allows customers to request bandwidth at set levels, anytime, anywhere..

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Ciena's 9 predictions for networks and tech in 20 ...

Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give their predictions for the upcoming year.

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TE SubCom and Ciena Partner to Deliver Enhanced O ...

Industry leaders to provide submarine cable operators with flexible turnkey option for end-to-end connectivity solution

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Telecom Egypt puts customers first with Ciena’s o ...

To offer granular, agile and reliable data services between Europe and Asia, Telecom Egypt (TE) has partnered with Ciena to build ...

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Telecom Egypt Picks Ciena for Resilient Optical M ...

Telecom Egypt is deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh solution and packet-optical platforms for reliable, low-latency connectivity to meet s ...

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North Sea Pathways: Digital Oilfields to Ultra-Se ...

Tampnet, a Norwegian based global operator, uses Ciena gear to support the operation of the largest offshore multi-terabit, low l ...

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What is web-scale networking?

Web-scale networking enables providers and enterprises to seamlessly keep up with fast-paced developments like video streaming, c ...

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Aqua Comms Successfully Tests Advanced Transatlan ...

Aqua Comms a provider of scalable, subsea capacity-based network solutions, today announces it has successfully completed a trial ...

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Webinar

Survivable Submarine Optical Networks

This webinar discusses a new approach to building networks to minimize the risk and impact of disruptions.

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White Paper

GeoMesh: Integrated Test Set Capabilities

Ciena is enabling significant opportunities to increase revenues by offering market-leading 100G-based transatlantic and transpac ...

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GeoMesh: Global Submarine Networking for a Web-sc ...

GeoMesh epitomizes the convergence of submarine and terrestrial network and web-scale technologies, yielding previously impossibl ...

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Infographics and posters

Ciena GeoMesh: You've Been Cut, So What?

GeoMesh - land, sea, cloud network unite. Ciena helps you stay connected all the time.

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6500 Packet-Optical Platform

Explore how the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform helps you scale capacity, maximize existing infrastructure, and support evolving tra ...

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12 Questions Answered about Submarine Data Center ...

As the recent news that Microsoft and Facebook plan to build a subsea cable across Atlantic demonstrates, the need to optimize in ...

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Protecting $10 Trillion Worth of Transactions, Ev ...

Back in 2010, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Reliability of Global Undersea Cable Communications Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) re ...

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The Story Behind the First Reliable Trans-Atlanti ...

Learn the history of the first reliable subsea cable across the Atlantic in 1866 and how fast transmission speed has improved ove ...

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Multi-Terabit Submarine Cables… Too Big to Fail?

Report in 2010 found that nearly 100 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic is carried by the ...

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A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...

Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...

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