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Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the s ...

Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two st ...

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Interoperability and innovation go hand-in-hand: ...

We’re pleased to announce that Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller has been awarded TIP’s Bronze Badge for c ...

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Keep it simple – debating coherent plugs versus t ...

Coherent Routing is a hot topic in the industry due to the promise of greater scalability, flexibility, and sustainability in the ...

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Navigator NCS use case: Manage multi-layer networ ...

With Navigator Network Control Suite, service providers gain intelligent, multi-layer network control to coordinate lifecycle ope ...

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Coordinated IP/Optical Control: Next Generation C ...

The momentum for converged multi-layer operations has begun, and industry innovators are discovering the benefits. There is chang ...

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MCP is an Intelligent Network Controller. What do ...

What is an Intelligent Network Controller? Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains the real value that lies behind this new term.

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Intelligent multi-layer operations with Navigator ...

Learn how Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer networ ...

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MCP Applications Use Case : Pinpoint fiber faults

MCP Applications gives you the intelligent network control you need to pinpoint and resolve fiber faults quickly.

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Coherent Optics: 100G, 400G, & Beyond

This white paper provides the industry’s most in-depth look at the current state and future trajectory of coherent optical transm ...

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Heavy Reading: Simplifying Operations with Multi- ...

The adoption of SDN domain controllers improves network management and should be a central element in an IT-based digital transfo ...

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Analyst Insights: Multi-layer SDN with enriched a ...

IP and optical network layers are converging, providing new challenges to the operations teams tasked with managing them. To get ...

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MCP Applications Use Case : Troubleshoot Data Com ...

MCP Applications gives you the intelligent network control you need to troubleshoot DCN issues.

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MCP Applications Use Case: Prevent optical networ ...

This video shows how MCP Applications simplify, accelerate, and automate operations to help you prevent optical network capacity ...

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Navigator Network Control Suite Use Case: Prevent ...

This video shows how Navigator NCS Applications simplify, accelerate, and automate operations to help you prevent optical network ...

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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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Accelerate integration testing with Ciena’s Emula ...

Ciena’s Emulation Cloud moves testing and integration of products and applications to the cloud.

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IP Over Optical Transport—Delivering Optimal Resi ...

There exists a practical implementation of IP over optical convergence—proper shared risk management and alarm correlation to ach ...

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How open standards in optical networks lead to de ...

A tongue-in-cheek saying is: ‘The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from’. Yet open standards play a ...

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SDN control – 3 rules for successful deployment

When implementing SDN control in service provider optical networks, what works and what are the key architectural decisions on th ...

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Omdia: Taking IP/Optical network visibility and a ...

In this paper, Omdia explains why converged IP and optical domain control are a key operational goal for many CSPs by highlightin ...

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Adaptive IP Apps to the rescue

Marie Fiala describes how Ciena’s Adaptive IP Apps come to the rescue by dramatically speeding up troubleshooting and resolution ...

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A new age of IP/Optical network visibility and au ...

Heightened performance demands on IP and optical networks are ushering in a new age of network management, visibility and automat ...

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Strengthen your advantage with Emulation Cloud an ...

In this final blog of the 4-part MCP Applications series, Marie Fiala describes the resources at your disposal to integrate, depl ...

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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another win ...

Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala e ...

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