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Infographics and posters
Powering 21
Download this infographic to learn how the evolution of education technology will have a significant impact on your broadband net ...
Articles
Programming the network: And you thought apps wer ...
Apps have become essential to our daily lives, and now they are essential for networks. Ciena's Fady Masoud explains.
Infobriefs
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 ...
Application Notes
Rethinking Campus Networks
Campus networks are undergoing a rapid evolution of user- and application-driven network capacity and utilization demands, drivin ...
Articles
SC17: Super Networks for Super Computers
The SC17 conference provides a perfect opportunity to experience the intersection of high-performance computing with high-perform ...
Webinars
Securing the Cloud: Simplifying Security between ...
Learn how to protect data at the optical layer—using bulk encryption of data flows to secure the network infrastructure and keep ...
Articles
Sensible step or leap of faith? 5 key reasons why ...
Jean-David Fabre, head of the research and education market, EMEA, Ciena says that by breaking with tradition and choosing the da ...
White Papers
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 ...
Videos
The Future of Network Security
Ciena's Patrick Scully provides his insights on the future of network security, the importance of third party certification.
Articles
The next generation of HPC networks: how to adapt ...
How does the next generation of optical networking technologies allow high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to connect with p ...
Articles
The Reality of Applying SDN WAN in R&E Networ ...
Many R&E networks are at the forefront of SDN deployments, but now risk replacing hardware silos with software silos via a multi- ...
Webinars
Transforming IP Connectivity with Segment Routing ...
Gain insights into why Segment Routing technology will be one of the pillars of the next-generation of mobile networks and its ef ...
Articles
Traveling Farther Just Got Smarter with 300G 8QAM ...
Ciena, CANARIE and StarLight collaborate on a 300G trail over a live research network using 8QAM modulation.
Webinars
Universal Aggregation: Consolidating Packet and O ...
Get an overview of how to consolidate separate service architectures onto a simple, open, and lean packet-based network.
White Papers
Upgrading R&E Networks to Bolster Bandwidth, ...
Research and Education (R&E) organizations are looking for new and better ways to provide network services to campus communities. ...
Case Studies
Utah Education Network Provides Bandwidth On Dema ...
Working with the University of Utah, the Utah Education Network has connected the research community with a super-fast Ciena’s 65 ...
White Papers
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 ...
Articles
Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...
The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E
Data Sheets
WaveLogic Ai FOTR Modules
The WaveLogic Ai FOTR modules are highly dense optical transponder and service channel interfaces that enable a more programmable ...
Data Sheets
WaveLogic Ai MOTR Modules
Ciena’s WaveLogic Ai MOTRs are optical transponder and service channel interfaces that enable a more programmable infrastructure.
Application Notes
WaveLogic Encryption Solution
Read this application note to find out more about WaveLogic Encryption, Ciena’s cost-effective, high-capacity, protocol-agnostic, ...
Data Sheets
WaveLogic Photonics: Increasing Competitive Advan ...
WaveLogic Photonics is Ciena’s fully instrumented, intelligent photonic system composed of WaveLogic coherent optics and flexible ...
Infobriefs
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 ...
Data Sheets
Waveserver
Waveserver® Ai delivers unmatched capacity—up to 2.4 Tb/s in a single rack unit—with a familiar operational toolset to tackle the ...