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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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Celebrating the Rise of 400G

The era of 400G was in full force at OFC and we took some time to celebrate this milestone. Here are what our customers have to s ...

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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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From Land to Sea to Cloud

It’s projected that Internet Content Providers will soon account for the majority of submarine traffic in all regions of the worl ...

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4 Things We Learned at #OFC17

From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...

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Blog Series | Transform your network operations w ...

Did you know Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to boost business agility and su ...

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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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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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Year in review: Ciena’s 5 biggest announcements o ...

From an uptick in 400G services to new acquisitions and partnerships, Ciena’s Bo Gowan highlights the biggest Ciena news and anno ...

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Visualizing the Future of Networking

Ciena has unveiled Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), providing real-time software control and advanced visualization ac ...

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Detecting undersea earthquakes with cross-industr ...

Is it possible to detect undersea earthquakes and tsunamis without sensors attached to wet plants, old and new? Yes, by detecting ...

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Altibox Carrier’s NO-UK Submarine Cable: Open. Gr ...

A few weeks ago, Altibox Carrier announced that the NO-UK submarine cable system achieved record-breaking 800Gb/s line rate with ...

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Verizon honors Ciena with Supplier Environmental ...

Verizon acknowledges Ciena for its outstanding support in helping them meet their sustainability goals this year while also drivi ...

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Fourth Generation 100GbE is the real deal. How we ...

Ciena’s Ivana Lemos explains how with Ciena’s new 8140 Coherent Metro Router you can meet new 100GbE requirements and satisfy you ...

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MCP is an Intelligent Network Controller. What do ...

What is an Intelligent Network Controller? Ciena’s Tim Pearson explains the real value that lies behind this new term.

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ONOS framework builds out SDN ecosystem

Read Q&A conversation on Open Network Operating System – or ONOS – backed by ON.Lab.

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Battle of the bands. Get more fiber capacity usin ...

Which technology will prevail in the battle of the bands? Conventional C + L-band? New L-band options combined with an Extended 6 ...

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Ciena’s WaveLogic: Accelerating connectivity and ...

Amid a surge of new investments and construction in data centers, Southeast Asian nations are joining together to make significan ...

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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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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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What’s new from Ciena in optical? The breadth of ...

Once again Ciena is breaking barriers across both performance and footprint-optimized coherent optics, learn about our latest opt ...

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Whirlwind tour: How 800G is already benefiting ne ...

Did you know that Ciena has shipped more than 25,000 800G modems to 140 unique operators around the world? How is this transformi ...

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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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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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