Latest Redefining Optical Networks Articles
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TOSCA and YANG? It’s not either/or...it’s both
Ciena's new Blue Planet architecture leverages a number of information models and orchestration tools – including TOSCA and NetCo ...
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Don’t sell it short: 200G can extend far past the ...
Data Center Interconnect (DCI) isn't just about the metro anymore. That's why today we’re unveiling new capabilities that extend ...
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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye
While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...
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Detailing Ciena’s massive new 15 Terabit OTN swit ...
This morning Ciena has unveiled a major update to our 5430 Packet-Optical Platform, giving it a massive upgrade to 15 Terabits of ...
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5 questions to evaluate OTN switching for your ne ...
Paul Littlewood, principal engineer in Ciena's CTO office and co-author of the
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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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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...
Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.
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OTN vs SONET/SDH: Comparing the differences
After nearly 25 years since the introduction of SONET/SDH, the evolution of these standards has ceased, and the majority of SONET ...
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Ciena’s new Waveserver: a dream machine for data ...
Ciena introduces the Waveserver™, a compact and purpose-built platform capable of enabling massive multi-terabit bandwidth for me ...
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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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The Metro gets a brand new 100G architecture opti ...
Traditionally, operators have had to choose between two types of photonic architectures when deploying an optical network: a pass ...
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Ciena’s new coherent chipsets raise the optical b ...
Ciena has unveiled two new coherent chipsets that represent the latest innovations with our WaveLogic 3 technology.
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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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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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Ciena’s new ‘Smart Raman’ provides Raman gain wit ...
Ciena has recently introduced an innovative new Raman solution that eliminates the pain points of previous Raman products and eve ...
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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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Ciena 6500: Extreme Packet Makeover Edition
It’s time to rethink everything you know about Ciena’s 6500 Packet Optical Platform. You’ve known the 6500 as our flagship platfo ...
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Meet the man who pioneered modern DWDM technology
Ciena CTO Steve Alexander has been honored with two IEEE recognitions. In this post, Steve's longtime friend and colleague Joe Be ...
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Ciena’s WaveLogic3 recognised with industry award
Last night was an evening of celebration for Ciena as WaveLogic3 was again recognised with an industry award. Congratulations to ...
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What is an Optical Control Plane?
To help clarify the question of “what is an optical control plane?”, we put together the below infographic that walks through the ...
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Ciena unveils WaveLogic 3 with 400G: What you nee ...
Ciena unveiled WaveLogic 3, the latest generation of coherent optical processors that form the foundation of our next-gen optical ...
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What is Gridless Networking?
What is gridless networking? Brian Lavallée, who heads up submarine networks industry marketing for Ciena, provides some insight.
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Introducing the 2-slot Ciena 6500 Packet-Optical ...
Last month, Ciena made a big announcement dubbed “Intelligent Infrastructure” that detailed the strategic evolution of our packet ...
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Cycle Slips: Not all coherent technology is creat ...
With more than ten years of development behind us, Ciena has engineered our coherent products from the ground up to eliminate fai ...