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4 EdTech Mega-Trends Driving Change in the Classr ...

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda looks at new trends in education technology, and the challenge of integrating them into the classroom.

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Autonomous Networks… Are You Ready?

Ciena's Brian Lavallée explains where we are (and where we're going) on the road to autonomous networks.

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What Happens When Quantum Physics Meets Cryptogra ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how research and development in cryptography is underway and how it could radically change encrypt ...

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The Top 3 Take-Aways from NGON 2017

What does lemon pie have to do with next-gen optical network architectures? Quite a bit actually, explains Ciena's Helen Xenos.

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Why Successful Business Transformation Requires a ...

New coherent technology innovations are now making it possible to challenge several longstanding assumptions associated with how ...

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GeoMesh Extreme:

Ciena’s Brian Lavallée delves into the depths of submarine networks and their importance to global communications, and how Ciena’ ...

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Why data security is more important than ever

Joe Marsella, CTO EMEA at Ciena, discusses the implications of optical fibre hacking and why a holistic security strategy is esse ...

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Countdown to the General Data Protection Regulati ...

Ciena’s Raffi Varoujian, Co-Lead for Global Compliance and Data Privacy, discusses the upcoming GDPR, what it means and how optic ...

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What is FlexEthernet and why is it so important?

FlexEthernet (FlexE) is a new flexible Ethernet client interface standard defined by the OIF. Ciena's Helen Xenos explains what i ...

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Northern Europe Goes Dark, and It’s a Good Thing

Eastern Light is a Swedish-based company that aims to change how bandwidth is carried around Northern Europe, a hotbed of data ce ...

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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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3 Key Video Transport Innovation Trends We Heard ...

At last week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, innovation was a consistent theme. Ciena’s Paulina G ...

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Re-Sodding Cable MSO Brownfields

With an increase in demand for high-speed data, IP video, cloud computing, and business services, cable MSO brownfields need to u ...

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Don’t be Fooled: Utility Fiber Outside the Substa ...

Many utility CIOs do not fully appreciate the fact that, once data leaves the substation or data center, it is basically outside ...

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Celebrating 60 Years of Protecting Submarine Cabl ...

The International Cable Protection Committee plays a critical role in protecting the world's subsea cable networks, and it's abou ...

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Packet Cable Landing Stations… Why Not?

As submarine traffic is increasingly dominated by packets going forward, native packet switches will eventually relegate SIE to t ...

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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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Reducing the High Cost of Coaxial Cable

By driving optical fiber deeper, cable operators can improve performance and reliability, increase capacity, become eco-friendlie ...

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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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5 Benefits Layer 1 Encryption-as-a-Service Brings ...

With all the efforts to lock down data at rest with firewalls, anti-virus software, and intrusion detection, cyber criminals are ...

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Ciena unveils Liquid Spectrum: The future of soft ...

For all the “agile” innovation over the last decade, today's optical networks are still predominantly static. This changes with C ...

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5 awesome new technologies you’ll see on the Cien ...

Next week is the OFC’17 Conference in Los Angeles, and Ciena is bringing our Ciena Innovation Lab filled with all the newest tech ...

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A Perfect Score for WaveLogic Ai from Lightwave I ...

An independent panel of third-party judges has recognized Ciena's new WaveLogic Ai chipset with a perfect score of 5/5 stars in t ...

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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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