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Innovation and Collaboration: Researching AI with ...
Discover how a collaboration between our research and development team and the University of Ottawa led to innovative new breakth ...
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Leveraging the right experts to capitalize on bre ...
Ciena’s new WaveRouter is pure ‘clean-sheet’ thinking, purpose built, and carves out a new role in the network. Learn how you can ...
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A look back on doing good in 2023
We’re looking back on all the good our Ciena team members did for our communities and our planet in 2023.
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Helping kids walk with the CHEO Foundation
Learn how our Ciena team in Ottawa donated a life-changing robot walker and continue to support CHEO, a global leader in pediatri ...
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Working at Ciena as a US Army Senior Officer: How ...
Fahad Digankar is a technical account manager on the Ciena government sales team who shared his experience balancing his military ...
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Closing digital gaps and empowering students in t ...
Ivan Polizzi, Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific, shares how we are teaming up with companies acro ...
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Career insights: Supporting our people in explori ...
At Ciena, we encourage and support our people in pursuing their passions. Carla Martinez, Leader of Diversity, Equity, and Inclus ...
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Ciena’s mechanical engineering and NPI teams, already on the lookout for ways to support health care workers, stepped up help the ...
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From big lasers to small lasers: How Ciena helped ...
Algonquin College is home to the only photonics lab of its kind in the world all thanks to a substantial upgrade and sponsorship ...
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Top 4 reasons to transform your network now
From the hidden risks of legacy gear to the drive to support ambitious new sustainability initiatives, Ciena’s Nay Newell looks a ...
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What is metro routing done differently?
Today’s metro network dynamics are forcing operators to reimagine their architecture for the converged metro—to deliver greater s ...
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What is coherent routing?
Learn the fundamentals of coherent routing, the enhancement of routed systems for efficient data transmission, and their impact o ...
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What is OTN (Optical Transport Networking)?
OTN—or Optical Transport Network—is a telecommunications industry standard protocol— defined in various ITU Recommendations, such ...
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What is Emulation Cloud?
Ciena’s Emulation Cloud™ is a cloud-based software development environment designed to help users create customized applications.
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What is mobile fronthaul?
Mobile fronthaul involves the movement of data and voice from a cell site Remote Radio Head (RRH) to a centralized Baseband Unit ...
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What Is Optical Encryption
Optical encryption is a means of securing all in-flight data in the optical transport layer of the network by transforming the da ...
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What is Edge Cloud?
Today’s centralized cloud is comprised of more than 10,000* data centers scattered across the globe. In the next five years, driv ...
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What is submarine networking?
Submarine networking is the process by which data is carried on subsea cables to connect continents. It carries 95% of the world’ ...
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What is SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networ ...
Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) agile, simpler, lower-cost infrastructure that manages entire WAN through one interfa ...
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What is IP/Optical convergence?
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a technique in fiber-optic transmission for using multiple light wavelengths (or colors ...
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What is ROADM?
400ZR defines a footprint-optimized solution for transporting 400Gb Ethernet over DCI links targeting a minimum of 80 km.
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What is IP and Ethernet aggregation?
IP and Ethernet aggregation is a converged networking approach that allows operators to aggregate traffic from common Ethernet an ...
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Tafari Shambe Forges His Own Path While Paying It ...
Tafari Shambe Forges His Own Path While Paying It Forward at Ciena
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What are Network analytics?
Network analytics provides operators and enterprises with a deep understanding of the network, enabling smarter, data-driven oper ...