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ASEAN Light Bytes: Building Vietnam’s Optical Bac ...
Ciena has been a fixture in Vietnam for more than 20 years, preceding the company’s acquisition of Nortel. Throughout the past de ...
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Ciena’s role in recent 400G industry-first milest ...
Are you confused about the recent 400G milestones announced and how this is different than what has been discussed for a few year ...
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Uncovering the path to 5G connectivity: part 2
Regardless where you may be in your 4G to 5G evolution journey, the huge expected growth in connected devices, data rates, and da ...
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How does Ciena’s 5171 help solve key networking b ...
Ciena’s 5171 platform delivers the capacity network operators need, where they want it – the network edge. In our popular Chalk T ...
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Uncovering the path to 5G connectivity
The race to deliver new, high value 5G services is all about how quickly you can evolve your existing 4G infrastructure into a sc ...
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Ciena Podcast: Spotlight on Japan with Rick Seeto
In our latest Network Insights Podcast, Ciena’s Rick Seeto talks about trends in Japan that have implications for network provide ...
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Closing the Loop: Ciena closes acquisition of Cen ...
Ciena has officially closed the acquisition of Centina Systems, which will be integrated into our Blue Planet division. Kailem An ...
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To repeat, or not repeat, that is the question
Are you familiar with unrepeatered submarine cables? As Ciena’s Brian Lavallée often gets asked about this lesser-known technolog ...
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5G Fabric Article
As the industry prepares for the rapid and wide-scale deployment of 5G, Ciena’s Kaniz Mahdi outlines an initiative with ENCQOR fo ...
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Lead with innovation: Carrier Ethernet services m ...
The popularity and increasing demand for Carrier Ethernet is driving adoption throughout Latin America and globally, while also c ...
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Mobile backhaul: a key growth driver to fuel fibe ...
Francisco Sant’Anna explains how regional providers can leverage carrier wholesale demand to enable profitable and sustainable fi ...
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SCTE Expo 2019 – the importance and opportunities ...
At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this year there were a few aspects of moving to 10G that stood out: the importance of low latency, the ...
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Redefining the metro edge with packet and coheren ...
Ciena’s Wayne Hickey explains how coherent packet-optical is redefining metro’s edge.
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8 top technologies for modern DCI networks
As the number of data centers has grown and the DCI market has evolved, network operators have had to deploy new capacity rapidly ...
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When time is money, banks can’t afford a network ...
To deliver a higher quality customer experience, banks of all sizes are deploying innovative digital applications and partnering ...
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Automation’s necessity for full 5G deployments
As service providers in the Asia-Pacific region race to deploy 5G, software and new network intelligence will be critical to ensu ...
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Dive into the Ciena Open Submarine Cables Handbook
What are open submarine cables? Brian Lavallée introduces our Submarine Cables Handbook that explains all of this, and much more.
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Ciena’s vision of submarine networking at SNW 2019
Will you be at Submarine Network World 2019 in Singapore next week? Find out what topics have us excited – and how you can learn ...
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Fast-track and de-risk your network modernisation ...
Achieving your network modernisation objectives is easier than ever, and that’s mostly because of the smart network technologies ...
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Septemb ...
This week, we're teaching new tricks to an old TDM network, discussing how to accelerate digital transformation with CLIP CONNECT ...
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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | August ...
This week, we're sharing the best from this summer, how photonic control plane advancements are benefiting network operators, dis ...
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Network modernisation has come of age…
There’s never been a better time to retire your legacy infrastructure. It may seem like a daunting task, but the technologies and ...
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Converged Packet: Teaching New Tricks to an Old T ...
We’ve all heard the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. Metaphorically speaking, we’re saying it’s very difficult to m ...
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5 reasons why it’s time to evolutionise your netw ...
We’ve reached a tipping point. Carrying on with legacy network infrastructure is no longer a long-term option. Here's five reason ...