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The Open RAN ecosystem gathers steam: The future ...

This analyst report explores how operators can maximize benefits against the cost of Open RAN.

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The Future of the Internet Is Fiber Deep

Aging coaxial plants, analog repeaters and limited spectrum make meeting customer demand for fast and reliable service a challeng ...

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The evolving coherent optical networking landscap ...

Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains how network providers are now at an inflection point and must evaluate innovative approaches to elev ...

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The Converged Interconnect Network

Ciena’s Fiber Deep Solution for the Converged Interconnect Network enables architectural and service convergence over a common CI ...

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The Adaptive Network: A Framework for Understandi ...

From individual users binge-watching Over-The-Top video services to enterprises deploying Software as a Service, cloud services a ...

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The Adaptive Network Vision webinar recap

Network providers face an unprecedented number of decisions about how to design their networks to support them well into the futu ...

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The Adaptive Network Is the Foundation of Persona ...

Whether students are learning from home or in the classroom, networks must be ready to support on-demand, bandwidth-hungry, low-l ...

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Telecom Acronyms Guide

The fourth edition of The Acronyms Guide, brought to you by Ciena, is a handy guide to help you decipher the telecom industry's a ...

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Systems Integration Service for Solution Validati ...

Ciena’s Service Integration Service for Solution Validation allows operators to keep their networks up to date and introduce new ...

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Start the Journey to The Adaptive Network

In a recent webinar produced with Light Reading, Kevin Sheehan, Ciena’s CTO of the Americas, looked into how providers are utiliz ...

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Spotlight on automation, scaling networks, and ge ...

While SCTE Expo 2020 is over, the valuable information shared lives on. Did you miss any of the important sessions or discussions ...

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Speeding up the Network Edge with Fiber Deep

Ciena’s Wayne Hickey explains how changing user behaviors are driving the need for more symmetrical services to alleviate bandwid ...

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Sharing Bandwidth with the Neighbors

Ciena's Wayne Hickey explains how Cable Operators can reduce sharing sizes to increase overall customer quality of experience.

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Senza-Fili Consulting: 5G in Europe: More than a ...

5G is more than a new access technology. Unlike previous mobile generations which were defined by the air interface, 5G will chan ...

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Senza Fili: From Automated to Autonomic Networks

This paper discusses the transition from static automation to new, the new autonomic networks that 5G networks will require.

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SCTE Expo 2019 – the importance and opportunities ...

At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this year there were a few aspects of moving to 10G that stood out: the importance of low latency, the ...

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Scaling for the Next Giant

In the recent Light Reading webinar entitled, Ciena's Senior VP and CTO, Steve Alexander, examined three real-world case studies ...

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Routing and Switching eGuide

Ciena's Routing and Switching solutions combine intelligent devices and software to create the infrastructure needed to transform ...

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Residential Broadband Network Design Checklist

Residential networks are rapidly expanding to meet surging customer demand.

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Replace network equipment faster, for lower cost, ...

What if you could maintain network availability by leveraging someone else’s in-place operations to get replacement parts into yo ...

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Reducing the High Cost of Coaxial Cable

By driving optical fiber deeper, cable operators can improve performance and reliability, increase capacity, become eco-friendlie ...

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Re-Sodding Cable MSO Brownfields

With an increase in demand for high-speed data, IP video, cloud computing, and business services, cable MSO brownfields need to u ...

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Q&A: Learning More about CableLabs® New Coher ...

CableLabs recently released a specification for coherent optics that is a significant development to support Distributed Access A ...

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Case Studies

Preparing for the high-bandwidth future with Cien ...

One of Europe’s leading multinational telecommunications companies replaces its disparate legacy aggregation networks with standa ...

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