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Powering Cable’s Future with Distributed Access

It’s not surprising that cable operators are looking to Fiber Deep and DAA for their networks, not only is it the logical step to ...

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Cable Operators find new opportunities with comme ...

Businesses crave gigabit services and Cable Operators are poised to deliver. That was the key takeaway from the annual Light Read ...

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Virtualizing the World of Cable

It’s not surprising that cable operators are virtualizing their networks. Not only is it the logical step to reduce power and sav ...

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How Some Cable Operators Plan to Go Mobile

With increasingly fiber-based networks and millions of WiFi hotspots to leverage, some cable operators are considering being rese ...

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Is it Time to Speed up Packet Delay?

Faster broadband connections are the cure for packet delay right? Not necessarily, says Ciena's Wayne Hickey, who details the man ...

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Fiber Deep for Success in the Gigabit Era

This paper shows how an operator can get ahead of the trends through the use of digital optics and packet networking.

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Next-Gen OTT Video-Services' Massive Impact on Ne ...

OTT has fundamentally changed the cable and video industry. Is your network agile and flexible enough for the on-demand world of ...

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Get Ready for Generation ‘Z’

Ciena's Wayne Hickey explains these generational differences and how you can modernize your network assets to bridge the generati ...

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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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Impact of 5G on Wireline Networks in Asia-Pacific

Understand why MNOs in the Asia-Pacific region need to take action now on an integrated wireless/wireline planning approach to so ...

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Carrier Ethernet 101: Speeds, Standards and Servi ...

Introduction to Carrier Ethernet covering speeds, standards, and services as well as areas to watch in the Ethernet realm.

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Fiber Deep Planning for ...

Ciena's Wayne Hickey details what Cable MSOs must consider when driving fiber deeper into their network.

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Are You Ready for the DOCSIS Impact on Fiber?

DOCSIS 3.1 is 10 times faster than 3.0 but this added speed brings challenges. Find out the how it will impact fiber deployments ...

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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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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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Data Sheets

Waveserver

Waveserver® Ai delivers unmatched capacity—up to 2.4 Tb/s in a single rack unit—with a familiar operational toolset to tackle the ...

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eBooks

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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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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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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Cable in 2020: The Role Virtualization and 'Fiber ...

A look at how virtualization and fiber deep will “bring it home” for MSOs in the OTT future

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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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WaveLogic Photonics: Increasing Competitive Advan ...

WaveLogic Photonics is Ciena’s fully instrumented, intelligent photonic system composed of WaveLogic coherent optics and flexible ...

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