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Is Your R&E Network Ready for the Great Surge?

R&E networks are experiencing a surge in capacity demand as a result of massive growth of streaming media, growing utilization of ...

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Ciena's 3931 Improves Oversight of Field-Training ...

Using Ciena’s 3931 Service Delivery Switch makes it possible to deliver full performance connectivity to tactical environments.

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Enabling a Bigger and Smarter Network with Ciena' ...

Ciena has developed WaveLogic 3, a technology foundation for the industry’s first intelligent transceiver. WaveLogic 3 makes it p ...

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The Need for Speed in Healthcare Networks

Driven by significant growth in application data that needs to be networked among stakeholders in today’s healthcare ecosystem, h ...

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Ciena Carrier Ethernet Summer Camp Webinar Series ...

Join Ciena's 2014 Carrier Ethernet Summer Camp webinar series.

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Relive Summer with Carrier Ethernet Summer Camp

The kids are back in school. The mornings have the crisp feel of Fall. It's true, summer is over. But that doesn't mean you can't ...

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Marcatel Expands Ethernet Business Service Offeri ...

Marcatel, one of the major service providers in Mexico, is deploying Ciena's carrier Ethernet solutions to expand its Ethernet bu ...

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Why “network slicing” is the key to 5G network ad ...

The 5G bandwidth promise is a whopping 10Gbps to each end user. But what would someone actually do with this amount of bandwidth?

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Modern Utilities Need Modern Networks

Today’s grid operations run on unsustainable 25-year-old SONET/SDH network technology. Download this infographic to learn how you ...

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Ethernet vs. Carrier Ethernet: The New Network Pa ...

Ethernet is everyone's favorite networking technology. Its ubiquity and popularity have pushed it outside the LAN and across almo ...

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Top 10 things utilities should know about packet ...

Utilities are in a time of transition. Legacy communications circuits are being discontinued by carriers and there is pressure fo ...

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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...

The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E

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Utilities are modernizing – here are three conver ...

Ciena's Malcolm Loro gives three recurring challenges he's hearing from Utilities providers as they look to modernize their techn ...

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Wilcon Partners with LightRiver and Ciena to Supp ...

Leveraging LightRiver’s Factory Built Network® Solution, backed by Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform, Wilcon Transforms Network Ca ...

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Hacking Rome: Inside the MEF's latest Hackathon e ...

Here is the inside scoop on the recent MEF Hackathon event.

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Strategies for a total communications solution – ...

Alex Connors of Vodafone details the service provider’s new high-capacity Ethernet Services and hybrid WAN portfolio, which uses ...

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The History of Carrier Ethernet

Ethernet has been around for decades and has claimed the title of the superior Local Area Networking (LAN) technology of choice.

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A Guide to Raising your Carrier Ethernet IQ

Long-time Carrier Ethernet expert and MEF guy John Hawkins gets you up-to-speed on the latest Carrier Ethernet tech with a free 6 ...

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QSC Introduces New Hybrid Cloud Services with Cie ...

QSC is launching new, hybrid cloud services leveraging solutions from Ciena® and Kapsch Carrier Solutions. Powered by Ciena’s Wav ...

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Why 5G Will Change Everything About The Network

Ciena’s Brian Lavallée takes a deep dive into the coming world of 5G and shows why the exact details of what a 5G network will lo ...

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Global Cloud Xchange Upgrades Transatlantic Route ...

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has deployed Ciena’s Packet Networking solutions to enable high-capacity Ethernet services on its tran ...

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The Clock is Ticking for Utilities to Evolve from ...

Ciena’s Malcolm Loro details the discontinuation of these services is happening more suddenly than expected, and clearly nobody i ...

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GEN15: What the heck is a hackathon?

Interview with John Hawkins one of the industry’s foremost experts on Carrier Ethernet technology.

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Ciena obtains JITC certification, paves the way f ...

The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certification for our layer 2 Ethernet access and aggregation solutions gives DoD ...

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