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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...

The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E

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New IHS Infonetics service provider survey puts C ...

IHS Infonetics has released the results from its annual Service Provider survey of Optical Equipment vendors. Here's how Ciena fa ...

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How bold hardware and software innovations are ch ...

How are hardware and software advancements helping network operators solve key challenges they face today? Ciena’s Paulina Gomez ...

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Of Oreos and Optical Networks: Ciena expands Wave ...

Ciena is extending the market reach of its industry-leading WaveLogic coherent modem technology by making it available to a range ...

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Bluewater Regional Networks lights up historic ne ...

To provide the connectivity needed for today’s digital economy, Bluewater Regional Networks is deploying a high-capacity, flexibl ...

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When it comes to IP/Optical convergence – can you ...

Are you finding yourself getting stuck in all the noise and details surrounding IP/Optical convergence? Not sure where you should ...

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Ciena Takes Top Spot in IHS Markit’s Annual Optic ...

Ciena secures the highest combined score overall in 2017 and once again lands securely in the leader category.

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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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Ciena goes web-scale with new coherent, metro and ...

This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Ciena’s new products and solutions tailored for a new web-scale world.

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Photonic integration and co-packaging: Design too ...

Photonic integration and co-packaging are related approaches to addressing area and power challenges for networking applications. ...

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How to elevate your defenses against growing cybe ...

Advances in quantum computing are introducing new paradigms in data security. Ciena’s Patrick Scully explains what they are and w ...

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New contenders join the race for lowest cost and ...

With all the buzz around 800G and 400ZR in the market, you might assume only large cloud and content providers see a need for the ...

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Why TLS/SSL encryption techniques are not enough ...

If your in-flight data encryption strategy relies on TLS and SSL, you may not be as secure as you think. That's because these tec ...

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Ericsson and Ciena support Telstra to lay foundat ...

Telstra has announced it has selected Ericsson, using Ciena’s technology, for a three-year optical transmission network rollout a ...

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Ciena’s technology innovation once again lands th ...

Based on analyst criteria, Ciena once again secured the highest overall score in the 2019 IHS Markit annual Optical Network Hardw ...

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With big edge densification comes big metro respo ...

Ciena’s 8100 family is expanding in a big way by adding the 8190 for higher capacity aggregation. Ivana Lemos explains how you ca ...

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One year of Programmable 400G: Insights into how ...

It has been one year since we started shipping our WaveLogic Ai coherent optical technology! Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a moment t ...

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Ciena’s WaveLogic 3 and Ericsson help Telstra ach ...

Ericsson today released the latest progress and accomplishments with its trans-Australian network deployment with Telstra – inclu ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Guide to improving ...

Over the past several years, coherent technology advancements have enabled providers to meet increasing capacity demands while co ...

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How Service Electric Cablevision is scaling up it ...

To provide their communities and customers with the level of connectivity needed for today’s pace of business and life, Service E ...

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More than a photon cannon: What iCAIR, UETN and C ...

iCAIR, UETN and Ciena were recently awarded the Best Long-Distance Performance and Overall Winner of the international Data Mover ...

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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks

Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...

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Meet the People who brought 400G to Optical

How do you deliver innovation that brings tremendous value to customers 1 year earlier? You use a team that has done it before wi ...

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Coherent optical turns 10: Here’s how it was made

This is the story of how a team of over 100 people in Ciena's R&D labs pulled together an impressive collection of technology inn ...

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