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Application note
Education IT network management, simplified | Ent ...
Learn how Ciena’s ERA manages multi-vendor IP/MPLS networks, diagnoses issues quickly, and gives networkwide visibility of change ...
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Chalk Talk: Programmable photonics | Ciena
Ciena’s photonics expert David Boertjes explains how Ciena’s programmable photonics enable you to continue to scale at the lowest ...
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800Gbps Quantum Secure Communications
Ciena’s Waveserver 5 platform powered by proven 800 Gb/s encryption, and Ciena's 8140 powered by 400GE MACsec encryption, leverag ...
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Act with insight to adapt your network, with Cien ...
Navigator NCS helps your network adapt to changing demands - with rapid, automated, multi-layer operations that increase your bus ...
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Optimization Service: Spectrum Defragmentation de ...
A short live-action demonstration showing how our patented Python-based Spectrum Defragmentation software discovers and identifie ...
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Managed Services: Managed NOC video
This video explores four uses cases for Ciena's Managed Services, identifying specific subsystems for Ciena Services to manage, w ...
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Fiber Characterization
In our live demonstration, we will show the coexistence of XGS-PON and 25GS-PON on the same single fiber, enabling both residenti ...
Infobrief
Implementation Service: Fiber Characterization
Ensure your existing fiber-plant infrastructure is optimized to deliver high-quality service and maximum performance.
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25GS-PON and XGS-PON Overlay Demonstration
In our live demonstration, we will show the coexistence of XGS-PON and 25GS-PON on the same single fiber, enabling both residenti ...
Infobrief
Replace network equipment faster, for lower cost, ...
What if you could maintain network availability by leveraging someone else’s in-place operations to get replacement parts into yo ...
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Maintenance Service: Managed Spares and Engineeri ...
What if you could maintain network availability by leveraging someone else’s in-place operations to get replacement parts into yo ...
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Maintenance Service: Managed Spares and Engineeri ...
Managed Spares and Engineering Dispatch to ensure replacements of failed equipment are performed quickly and accurately by our ex ...
Infographics and posters
Not all 400G pluggables are created equal
Not all 400G pluggables are created equal. Achieve industry-leading pluggable performance with trusted WaveLogic™ technology.
White Paper
Verizon, Ciena and Network Modernization
With Ciena, Verizon was able to build a parallel network — minimizing disruptions and reducing risk to end users — that was less ...
Infobrief
WaveLogic™ 6 Extreme: Evolving Networks to 1.6 Tb ...
Providing ubiquitous 800G connectivity and ultimate wavelength capacity of up to 1.6 Tb/s, WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) brings the ...
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Intelligent multi-layer operations with Navigator ...
Learn how Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer networ ...
White Paper
2022 Trends to Watch: Optical Networks
Pluggables in switch routing platforms are on a trajectory for a mass volume market. Download the report to learn more.
Article
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 ...
eBook
Networks for the Future of Higher Education
EdTech is evolving at a rapid pace. Online learning is increasingly prevalent and more widely available. Students untethered from ...
Video
Own the Edge: Ciena’s leaders discuss the role of ...
Ciena's leaders talk about how IP/Optical convergence can transform your metro and edge network to increase operational automatio ...
Infographics and posters
IP/Optical Convergence: Are you ready?
Discover some of the biggest barriers to IP/Optical Convergence and how Ciena can help.
eBook
Guide to Transforming Photonic Network Operations ...
Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum helps providers extract the full value of network assets across all stages of the photonic network lifecy ...
Article
Adaptive Learning is the Future of Education. Are ...
Educators are increasingly leaning on EdTech and Adaptive Learning tools that personalize and improve the student learning experi ...
White Paper
The Adaptive Network Is the Foundation of Persona ...
Whether students are learning from home or in the classroom, networks must be ready to support on-demand, bandwidth-hungry, low-l ...