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100G and beyond for Research & Education netw ...

Ciena and the R&E community are pushing past terabit optical transport.

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Webinars

2019 Packet Networking Summer Webinar Series

This year, Ciena’s Packet Networking Summer Webinar Series offers a serious look at how you can take your network to new heights ...

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Webinars

2020 Routing and Switching Webinar Series

Our popular Routing and Switching Series is back! Ready to learn about new approaches and concepts available to help you on your ...

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White Papers

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.

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Articles

3 Key Research Trends Poised to Change Our Lives

Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three key trends in research enabled by supercomputing and the networks that connect them that wi ...

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Articles

3 R&E Network Innovations Changing Lives for ...

Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three developing network innovations that are enabling the R&E community to make a meaningful imp ...

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Data Sheets

3844

Ciena’s 3844 Edge Server, powered by the field-proven Vyatta® Network Operating System (Vyatta NOS), is a one rack unit (1RU), na ...

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Data Sheets

3848

Ciena’s 3848 Edge Server, powered by the field-proven Vyatta® Network Operating System (Vyatta NOS), is a one rack unit (1RU), na ...

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Infographics and posters

400G: Your Network is Your Empire

Download this infographic to learn more about your 400G potential with WaveLogic Ai and see how Ciena can help you build your net ...

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Articles

5 key characteristics of a successful DevOps depl ...

DevOps enables better collaboration and thus improving operational efficiency, speeding innovation, and accelerating

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Data Sheets

5171 Platform

Ciena’s 5171 Platform empowers advanced access networks with 100GbE packet services beyond the Central Offices and POP sites, ena ...

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Videos

5G + Ciena

A 5G network means having a network capable of handling unprecedented demand. Think of Ciena as your guide on the path to 5G.

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Articles

7 key considerations when evolving your R&E N ...

Ciena's Vini Santos shares a list of fundamental pillars to consider in R&E network evolution planning. These pillars are importa ...

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Data Sheets

8180 Coherent Networking Platform

Ciena’s 8180 Coherent Networking Platform combines industry-leading capacity with embedded intelligence of WaveLogic coherent tra ...

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Application Notes

A Path to a Modern and Versatile Government Broad ...

This paper summarizes government networking challenges and opportunities and introduces Ciena’s 6500 Packet Transport System a pr ...

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White Papers

A Self-Optimizing Fabric for the 5G Era

This paper examines how self-optimizing fabrics forming a nervous system for the world of interconnected smart things could help ...

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Articles

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 ...

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Infobriefs

Adaptive Network: Automation Islands Webinar Recap

This document recaps the Webinar and explains the journey to automation and how to avoid building an automation island.

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Videos

Anytime, Anywhere Education: An Adaptive Learning ...

The classroom has become increasingly digital over the past decade. Education is evolving into a personalized anytime, anywhere, ...

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Articles

Best Practice Advice for Deploying SDN and NFV

Here is some advice for network operators looking to migrate to SDN and NFV.

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Webinars

Beyond 100GbE: The Critical Role of Coherent Opti ...

Today’s network edge is once again being redefined. Join us to see how coherent optics and packet technologies help extend 100G a ...

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Webinars

Beyond PON: The Critical Role of Shared Fiber Acc ...

Understand why 10Gb/s Passive Optical Network (PON) is expanding beyond residential to small enterprises, businesses, and mobilit ...

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Infobriefs

Beyond Service Agility for R&E: Advanced anal ...

New educational technology applications and research data collection are driving massive change to both campus networks and R&E n ...

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Articles

Blue Planet Analytics: Unlock your network’s trea ...

Network analytics are only as valuable as your ability to collect, centralize and interpret the data. Enter Blue Planet Analytics.

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