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Securing the Cloud Between Data Centers

As applications increasingly communicate between different locations – is that data secure? Kent Jordan explains how Layer 1 encr ...

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Securing the Cloud: Simplifying Security between ...

Learn how to protect data at the optical layer—using bulk encryption of data flows to secure the network infrastructure and keep ...

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Segra Adds Major Regional Transport Network Power ...

Segra, one of the largest independent fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S., announced a major expansion o ...

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Selecting flexible coherent routing platforms wit ...

Did you know Ciena’s coherent routing platforms have all the capabilities you need to support next-generation metro and edge use ...

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Selecting flexible coherent routing platforms wit ...

Did you know Ciena’s coherent routing platforms have all the capabilities you need to support next-generation metro and edge use ...

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Sensible step or leap of faith? 5 key reasons why ...

Jean-David Fabre, head of the research and education market, EMEA, Ciena says that by breaking with tradition and choosing the da ...

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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...

In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...

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Service Providers Name Ciena Leading Optical Vend ...

2016 study reports service provider perceptions of optical equipment suppliers; Ciena claims top spot in key categories

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Service providers single out Ciena as leading opt ...

IHS Markit released the results from its annual Service Provider survey of Optical Equipment vendors, with Ciena taking the top s ...

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Setting records in 800G - Altibox Carrier and Cie ...

Watch how Altibox broke new optical transmission records using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme.

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Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?

There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...

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Side-stepping the cost, complexity and extended t ...

How organisations can reduce time to market for new connectivity offerings from 24 months to just six months with a white label d ...

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Side-stepping the Cost, Complexity, and Extended ...

Carriers can achieve unique benefits by choosing Ciena to deliver white label services. Ciena helped a major European Tier 1 carr ...

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Sify Technologies to Deliver 400G-ready Metro Net ...

Sify Technologies Limited has selected Ciena’s converged packet optical solutions to address rising customer demand

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Application Notes

Simplify Integration and Reap Cost Savings with C ...

This paper features two case studies that demonstrate the tangible cost and efficiency benefits realized by using Emulation Cloud.

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Application Notes

Simplifying Optical Networking through Adaptive, ...

Bandwidth demands are exploding in a variety of applications, and network operators are struggling to scale network capacity to p ...

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SingAREN Builds Higher Speed, More Resilient Netw ...

SingAREN has deployed Ciena's 6500 packet-optical platform to deliver reliable high-speed connectivity for data-intensive science ...

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Single-wave 400G across 4,000km? Yes – with Ciena ...

Ciena’s popular family of Waveserver products just got a new member – Waveserver 5. With tunable capacity up to 800G and support ...

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SONET/SDH is dead – really this time

The age of SONET and SDH networks is nearing an end, for real this time. In the latest reports from Infonetics and Dell’Oro, both ...

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Southern Cross Achieves 800G with Ciena’s WaveLog ...

Southern Cross connected the first single-wavelength 800G across a live production network using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme cohe ...

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Spark starts roll out of new faster, ‘self healin ...

The new Optical Transport Network will support faster restoration of service and increased capacity for Spark’s 5G roll out

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Sprint Boosts Fiber-Optic Network Capacity 1,600 ...

Sprint announces that it has installed optical wavelength division multiplexing technology from industry leader Ciena Corporation ...

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Sprint Reaches New Milestones for Network Speed

Sprint and Ciena have teamed to achieve two significant milestones in speed and capacity on Sprint’s network.

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Standards Update: 200GbE, 400GbE and Beyond with ...

Ciena's Helen Xenos talks to Pete Anslow, our Ethernet standards guru, about the newly approved IEEE standards for 200GbE and 400 ...

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