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500G transpacific. Yep, we did that!

The news from SubOptic? Let’s start with our successful single-wavelength 500G field trial over a 9,000km transpacific cable. Cie ...

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Data Sheets

5430 Packet-Optical Platform

Ciena۪'s 5430 Packet-Optical Platform is the industry's first multi-terabit packet-optical switching platform that transforms net ...

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Press Releases

5G Americas Welcomes Ciena to Board of Governors

5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, today announced the election of Ciena to it ...

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Visio Stencils

6500 100G WL3 stencil

View the 6500 100G WL3 stencils.

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Brochures

6500 Packet-Optical Platform

Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform leverages the latest technology innovations to deliver new levels of scale, flexibility, and ...

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Visio Stencils

6500 PTS stencil

View the 6500 PTS stencils.

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Data Sheets

6500 Reconfigurable Line System

Ciena’s 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) delivers scale and programmability for the photonic layer while maximizing operatio ...

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Data Sheets

6500-D14/S14 Packet-Optical Platform

Ciena’s 6500-D14/S14 configurations converge comprehensive Ethernet, TDM, and WDM capabilities with unconstrained hybrid packet/O ...

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Videos

6500-D2 Packet-Optical Platform

Ciena’s 6500-D2 with high capacity Add-Drop-Mux-on-a-Blade extends the flexibility, scalability, and resiliency of the 6500 Packe ...

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Data Sheets

6500-D4 Packet-Optical Platform

The 6500-D4 is a compact chassis that is designed to address expanding metro and edge applications.

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Data Sheets

6500-D7/S8 Packet-Optical Platform

Designed for modernized network applications, the 6500-D7/S8 configurations converge comprehensive Ethernet, TDM, and WDM capabil ...

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Data Sheets

6500-S32 Packet-Optical Platform

Designed for high-capacity networking, the 6500-S32 Packet-Optical Platform converges comprehensive Ethernet, TDM, and WDM capabi ...

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Data Sheets

6500-T12/T24

With the ability to scale to Terabit/s switching per slot and flexibly route wavelengths without restriction across any one of 16 ...

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Articles

7 key considerations when evolving your R&E N ...

Ciena's Vini Santos shares a list of fundamental pillars to consider in R&E network evolution planning. These pillars are importa ...

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Press Releases

75 Percent of Network Providers Expect Significan ...

Ciena sponsored an independent research report by ACG Research to highlight the current state of adaptive networking and further ...

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Articles

800G adoption soars in 2020

With the industry’s first programmable 800G solution in market this year, how fast have customers been embracing it? Ciena’s Hele ...

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Articles

800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...

The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...

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Data Sheets

8180 Coherent Networking Platform

Ciena’s 8180 Coherent Networking Platform combines industry-leading capacity with embedded intelligence of WaveLogic coherent tra ...

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Application Notes

8180 Coherent Networking Platform: Connecting the ...

IoT usage is set to explode: Billions of things will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Emerging support applications require ...

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Articles

9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet

Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet

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Articles

A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...

Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...

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Articles

A closer look at CenturyLink’s Programmable Servi ...

Recep Ozdag details the work the Blue Planet team is doing with CenturyLink as part of their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) ...

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White Papers

A Model for Business Case Analysis of C/L-band Ne ...

This white paper presents a model for the analysis of C/L-band business cases, with the objective of enabling network operators

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Articles

A peek inside CenturyLink’s National 100G Ultra L ...

CenturyLink began using Ciena’s 6500 platform in 2013 to modernize and upgrade its national network and offer high-speed services ...

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