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Doyle Research: Considerations for the Orchestrat ...
This white paper uncovers the benefits of SD-WAN for enterprises and how service providers can seize the opportunity of managed S ...
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Smarter Security for Financial Networks with In-f ...
Both at-rest and in-flight encrypted data are typically implemented in conjunction, and complement each other as part of a holist ...
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Bolstering Higher Education Networks to Invigorat ...
This paper summarizes the connectivity challenges higher education institutions are facing today and recommends DCI approaches th ...
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Packets for All
For decades, TDM was the backbone for global bandwidth, transporting voice, data, and video. In 2012, global bandwidth was transf ...
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IHS Markit 2017 Optical Equipment Vendor Leadersh ...
IHS Markit’s annual optical leadership survey is an attempt to quantify the opinions of service providers. Download the report su ...
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Driving Multi-Tenant Data Center Integration and ...
This paper explores these challenges and describes Ciena’s expertise in planning, designing, and deploying networks in support of ...
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Cable in 2020: Agile and Closer to the User
Cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) are content-driven businesses currently seeing new and broad opportunities for expansion.
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Transforming Banking Networks to Support Innovati ...
This paper summarizes key trends influencing digital banking, the impacts on IT, and how banks can use Data Center Interconnect ( ...
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Interconnecting Data Centers to Support the New W ...
Read this paper and learn how digital health is placing new demands on data center connectivity and how a few steps can help impr ...
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Four Things to Know about Peering Connectivity
This paper explains how the ability to securely deliver high-quality video makes peering connectivity an attractive alternative f ...
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Quantifying the Business Benefits of NFV-based Ma ...
As much as SDN and NFV are about technology innovation, they are also about business innovation. New service descriptions, servic ...
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NFV and SDN: The Next Step in the Evolution of th ...
In this white paper, CED, a publication focused on the MVPD segment, explores virtualization benefits and obstacles as well as ho ...
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IDC Executive Insights: Transitioning Toward a So ...
The results of the IDC Asia/Pacific WAN and Communications Survey, 2015, show that enterprises see the need for network to be not ...
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Technology Innovation for Web-scale Data Center I ...
Ciena’s solutions, rooted in the company’s industry leadership in DCI applications, enable data center and network operators to a ...
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Delivering Profitable DCI Services
Enterprises are shifting more of their IT spending from private cloud to hybrid and public cloud services, triggering new Data Ce ...
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Expanding Demands Need Routing and Switching Perf ...
This paper shows how to gain the most from metro transformation initiatives with a simple, scalable, and programmable approach.
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MSOs Take Ethernet Business Services By Storm
This paper discusses the rise of EBS as an appealing alternative to traditional business services.
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Ethernet Services in an IP World
Ethernet as a data networking technology has been in wide use for many years, keeping pace with the network speeds demanded by ap ...
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Five Data Center Federation Factors to Help Prepa ...
A Data Center Federation (DCF) can make a pivotal difference in helping to keep content and data consumers working, playing, and ...
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Small Cell Technology, Big Business Opportunity
Small cells allow the mobile network to improve in both coverage and capacity, which facilitates web-scale architectures even fur ...
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The Impact of OTT Services on the Mobile Backhaul ...
Many mobile operators have deployed a traditional IPoDWDM architecture for mobile backhaul, which was sufficient when network tra ...
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Maximizing LTE Benefits Using Carrier Ethernet Ba ...
Backhaul providers are in a prime position to capitalize on the growing market for delivering Carrier Ethernet services to MNOs.
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GeoMesh: Integrated Test Set Capabilities
Ciena is enabling significant opportunities to increase revenues by offering market-leading 100G-based transatlantic and transpac ...
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GeoMesh: Global Submarine Networking for a Web-sc ...
GeoMesh epitomizes the convergence of submarine and terrestrial network and web-scale technologies, yielding previously impossibl ...