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Looking to transform your network and service ope ...

Tim Pearson and Kailem Anderson discuss some of Ciena’s innovative AIOps use cases, and how AI, including ML and GenAI, significa ...

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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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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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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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IP and optical convergence success requires more ...

Key findings from Heavy Reading's third Open, Automated, & Programmable Transport Networks operator survey highlight the operatio ...

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Introducing the Adaptive Network Vision

Users’ ever-increasing expectations—and the technology breakthroughs that continue to feed them—have created an unprecedented lev ...

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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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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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Intelligent Data - Driven Operations with AIOps

In this white paper, Heavy Reading focuses on artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and the emerging role of AI in mu ...

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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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How Financial Enterprises Light Up the Darkness

For some financial institutions, a private dark fiber network provides the control and security they require for data center conn ...

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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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Guiding the way to simplified operations – Ciena’ ...

Once again, we’re pleased to announce an open standards compliance for Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite (formerly known as ...

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Gaming at the Cloud Edge

Today's gamers are tied to a single platform, physical hardware, and long software download times. But gamers are demanding more ...

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Executive Summary - Analysys Mason: Converging IT ...

This paper assesses the value of a cloud-native platform for operational automation, which can be shared by IT and networking org ...

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Emulation Cloud

Ciena's Emulation Cloud is an open application development environment designed to help customers and third-party developers crea ...

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Elevate Ciena’s Network Operations with Cloud Agi ...

Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller provides the software control needed to automate workflows for service p ...

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Doubling down on domain control with real-time in ...

Would you like the ability to complete your operational tasks quicker and more accurately, across multi-layer, multi-vendor netwo ...

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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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Customer Evolution to Software Control: A Perspec ...

Ciena takes you to ESL One, an esports tournament that’s streamed by millions around the world, to learn more about the newest sp ...

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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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Coherent Routing WaveRouter OSRP Navigator Walk T ...

Let Anand Raj take you through Ciena’s Ottawa lab to see an actual WaveRouter and how Navigator NCS takes you beyond IP and Optic ...

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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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Ciena’s role in recent 400G industry-first milest ...

Are you confused about the recent 400G milestones announced and how this is different than what has been discussed for a few year ...

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