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7 Facts You Should Know About Carrier Ethernet

Ethernet has become a ubiquitous networking technology -- if you connect anything that uses data, you’re probably using Ethernet. ...

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Data Sheets

6500 Packet Transport System product data sheet

The 6500 PTS is purpose-built to save significant central office footprint and power and maintain substantial customer mission-cr ...

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Article

6 Takeaways from Heavy Reading Cable’s Fiber Outl ...

Heavy Reading recently surveyed the SCTE membership about their fiber buildout plans, we take a look at the top six takeaways fro ...

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Article

5G will require a new way to deliver IP connectiv ...

User demands are changing. The next generation of mobile networks requires far more than capacity upgrades. Ciena’s Vinicius Sant ...

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White Paper

5G Needs Software Everywhere, Especially on the W ...

5G is coming, and although the standards aren’t fully defined, it’s going to be a game-changer. Its ramifications for service del ...

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Infographics and posters

5G Impact on Wireline Networks in Asia-Pacific

A new study by Analysys Mason shows that Mobile Network Operators planning to roll out 5G services must create an integrated wire ...

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Article

5G Fabric Article | Ciena

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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Press Release

5G Americas Welcomes Ciena to Board of Governors

5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, today announced the election of Ciena to it ...

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Data Sheets

5410 Packet-Optical Platform product data sheet

The 5410 uses Ciena’s FlexiPort technology to offer unprecedented flexibility and investment protection, with programmable interf ...

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5186

The 5186 is a compact, secure 100/200/400GbE aggregation router with up to 1.6 Tb/s FlexE aggregation, line-rate MACsec support, ...

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5171 Platform

Ciena’s 5171 Platform empowers advanced access networks with 100GbE packet services beyond the Central Offices and POP sites, ena ...

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5169 DS | Ciena

Ciena’s 5169 Router is purpose-built for next-generation broadband and 5G networks.

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5168

Ciena’s 5168 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul (xHaul) networks onto a ...

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5166

Ciena’s 5166 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul (xHaul) networks onto a ...

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5164

Ciena’s 5164 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul (xHaul) networks onto a ...

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5162

Ciena’s 5162 Platform is a fixed configuration microservices-based WAN aggregation device

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5160 Service Aggregation Switch product data sheet

The 5160 is based on Ciena’s field-proven packet networking technology, with hundreds of thousands of systems deployed by operato ...

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5150

The 5150 features industry-leading switching capacity and port density in a compact 2RU form factor.

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5144

Ciena’s 5144 is a cost-effective router designed to address the requirements for higher capacity and end-to-end disaggregated IP ...

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5142

Ciena's 5142 Service Aggregation Switch (SAS) is a compact, high-density packet switch that delivers low Total Cost of Ownership ...

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5132 Platform

Ciena’s 5132 is purpose-built for 100 Gb/s service and demarcation—with support of WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n)—in a variety of busine ...

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5131 Product data sheet

Ciena’s 5131 is a hardened, weatherproof aggregation router.

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5130

Ciena’s 5130 Router is purpose-built for 5G networks that converge 4G/5G fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul (xHaul) networks onto a ...

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Article

5 tips to scale your network, not your complexity ...

For years, increasing your capacity to meet growing demand meant adding more and bigger hardware-based platforms to your infrastr ...

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