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Infobrief
Implementation Service: Fiber Characterization
Ensure your existing fiber-plant infrastructure is optimized to deliver high-quality service and maximum performance.
Video
Implementation Service: Staging in Factory
Ciena's Staging in Factory accelerates your deployment saving you time and money during your on-site install.
Video
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 ...
Video
Internet2's 8.8Tbps Network Using Ciena Gear
Rob Vietzke, Executive Director of Network Services at Internet2, talks about the new 8.8 Tb/s national backbone network Internet ...
Case Study
Internet2: Building America's First National 100G ...
Internet2 worked in partnership with Ciena to deploy America’s first nationwide 100G network, which delivers 100G connectivity fo ...
Infographics and posters
IP/Optical Convergence: Are you ready?
Discover some of the biggest barriers to IP/Optical Convergence and how Ciena can help.
Article
Is SDN the Golden Ticket? Only if you know how to ...
Just because everyone has a golden ticket doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a smooth ride through the SDN chocolate factory.
Application note
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 ...
Press Release
IU, Industry Leaders to Power Fastest Network Eve ...
Indiana University network engineers are collaborating with Ciena, Internet2, and ESnet to power the fastest network ever built f ...
Press Release
KISTI and Ciena Drive High-Bandwidth Research and ...
Korean research institute deploys 8700 Packetwave Platform to improve network scalability and help power the acceleration of data ...
Video
Maintenance Service: Managed Spares and Engineeri ...
Managed Spares and Engineering Dispatch to ensure replacements of failed equipment are performed quickly and accurately by our ex ...
Infobrief
Maintenance Service: Managed Spares and Engineeri ...
What if you could maintain network availability by leveraging someone else’s in-place operations to get replacement parts into yo ...
Infobrief
Managed Services
Ciena’s Managed Network Service offerings provides increased operational efficiencies et al and an OPEX model that keeps your net ...
Video
Managed Services: Managed NOC
This video explores four uses cases for Ciena's Managed Services, identifying specific subsystems for Ciena Services to manage, w ...
Article
Meet the People who brought 400G to Optical
How do you deliver innovation that brings tremendous value to customers 1 year earlier? You use a team that has done it before wi ...
Article
More than a photon cannon: What iCAIR, UETN and C ...
iCAIR, UETN and Ciena were recently awarded the Best Long-Distance Performance and Overall Winner of the international Data Mover ...
Webinar
Network Modernization: Understanding Circuit and ...
Get an overview of circuit and pseudowire emulation and how to transport private line service over a packet-based network.
Article
Network Traffic Challenges? It’s Time for a New P ...
Ciena’s Kent Jordan explains how escalating bandwidth demands can mean only one thing…costly and complex network upgrades.
eBook
Networks for the Future of Higher Education
EdTech is evolving at a rapid pace. Online learning is increasingly prevalent and more widely available. Students untethered from ...
Infographics and posters
Not all 400G pluggables are created equal
Not all 400G pluggables are created equal. Achieve industry-leading pluggable performance with trusted WaveLogic™ technology.
White Paper
Omdia: 2020 Optical Network Hardware Vendor Score ...
This Scorecard evaluates the top optical network equipment vendors on criteria using concrete data and metrics, including direct ...
Video
One Maryland: Statewide Broadband Network
Ciena CEO Gary Smith joins local leaders from the state of Maryland as they talk about the impact of the newly completed Maryland ...
Infographics and posters
Optical Transport Network
The Optical Transport Network (OTN) defined in ITU G.709. Download this infographic for a deep dive into this crucial technology.
Video
Optimization Service: Spectrum Defragmentation de ...
A short live-action demonstration showing how our patented Python-based Spectrum Defragmentation software discovers and identifie ...