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Vendor of the Year: Ciena brings home 3 MEF award ...
The future of both Ciena and the networking industry was on display this week at the MEF’s GEN15 in Dallas, Texas.
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Four Reasons You Want a Micro-Services Architectu ...
While the topic of container-based micro-services seems to have become a hot-topic overnight in the networking and telecom space, ...
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What is the “Right” Approach to Open Source?
So, here we go again. We in the telecom industry are looking at how to transform our networks with SDN, NFV and orchestration. Bu ...
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Behind the scenes with Ciena’s new Blue Planet ar ...
Hear the technology experts that have been working directly on our new Blue Planet architecture over the last year.
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CenturyLink announces network virtualization plan ...
Ciena's Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator is a key part of CenturyLink’s plan to virtualize 40% of its global IP core network location ...
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Apply BPMN to Enable Network Transformation at th ...
It can be easy to gloss over how complicated it is to integrate new SDN and NFV functionality into an existing OSS. But this inte ...
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TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both
Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...
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Ciena Delivers Self-Service Programmability and R ...
Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) unveiled key enhancements to its Blue Planet network orchestration software designed to help operators expand ...
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Ciena Blue Planet unveils the dawn of service orc ...
Today Ciena’s Blue Planet division unveiled an entirely new architecture. Joe Cumello goes through each of them in this blog post.
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The Reality of Applying SDN WAN in R&E Networ ...
Many R&E networks are at the forefront of SDN deployments, but now risk replacing hardware silos with software silos via a multi- ...
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Ciena to Showcase Blue Planet Software at SDN &am ...
Experts discuss how service providers can improve agility for efficient, flexible networks with Blue Planet Software at SDN Open ...
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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye
While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...
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5 questions to evaluate OTN switching for your ne ...
Paul Littlewood, principal engineer in Ciena's CTO office and co-author of the
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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Cyan
New Blue Planet business division to lead Company’s software activities to deliver greater efficiency, automation and agility of ...
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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...
Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.
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Defining the 3 Factions of SDN
This post defines the three factions of Software Defined Networking.
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Ciena unveils a carrier-grade CPE for NFV
Since Ciena announced our NFV solution, Agility Matrix, in December, we have been quite busy working a variety of enhancements to ...
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Bringing DevOps to Service Provider Networks and ...
This paper discusses using a model-driven and DevOps-style operational approach, which minimizes the need to develop custom code ...
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Equinix and Ciena Enable On-Demand Virtual Networ ...
Industry-leading data center provider deploys Ciena networking platforms to enable virtual cross connect; boost speed and perform ...
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Hibernia Networks Upgrades Trans-Atlantic Subsea ...
Hibernia Networks recently selected Ciena to provide advanced optical solutions on the Hibernia Networks platform.
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Ciena Expands Packet Networking Portfolio to Acce ...
Ciena announced new packet networking solutions designed to help network operators accelerate the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet ...
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Ciena 6500: Extreme Packet Makeover Edition
It’s time to rethink everything you know about Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical Platform. You’ve known the 6500 as our flagship platfo ...
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What is an Optical Control Plane?
To help clarify the question of “what is an optical control plane?”, we put together the below infographic that walks through the ...