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The 8700 Strikes Again: Two New Innovation Awards ...
Ciena’s new 8700 Packetwave Platform strikes again, back in the news after receiving two new industry innovation awards.
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The aerodynamics of routing
To go faster a race car doesn’t necessarily need a bigger engine – is the same true for your IP network? Learn how to simplify E2 ...
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The Best of the Metro Network Meets the Best of t ...
Cloud services are placing extraordinary demands on the metro network. Ciena brings all these capabilities together in the 8700 P ...
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The Cable Landing Station Is Critical Infrastruct ...
We sit down with Amy Marks, CEO of XSite Modular, a leading cable landing station builder, to get her valuable insights on the su ...
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The Clock is Ticking for Utilities to Evolve from ...
Ciena’s Malcolm Loro details the discontinuation of these services is happening more suddenly than expected, and clearly nobody i ...
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The future is near. Is your business network read ...
New technologies are changing the way we do business, so enterprises cannot be limited by network performance. Learn why your IP ...
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The future of Ethernet services in the era of the ...
As enterprises continue their shift to the cloud and service providers work towards a digital transformation journey that promise ...
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The future of PON at the edge
Omdia analyst Julie Kunstler on why PON’s role is expanding beyond traditional residential deployments to support convergence nee ...
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The History of Carrier Ethernet
Ethernet has been around for decades and has claimed the title of the superior Local Area Networking (LAN) technology of choice.
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The history of optical and Ethernet
In this infographic, you will see the history and evolution of both technologies, including major milestones for each.
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The Impact of OTT Services on the Mobile Backhaul ...
Many mobile operators have deployed a traditional IPoDWDM architecture for mobile backhaul, which was sufficient when network tra ...
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The Need for Speed in Healthcare Networks
Driven by significant growth in application data that needs to be networked among stakeholders in today’s healthcare ecosystem, h ...
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The need for universal aggregation
ABI Research’s Dimitris Mavrakis looks at why concepts like Universal Aggregation are necessary for service providers to continue ...
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The Network Modernization Imperative
To meet growing bandwidth demands, carriers need networks that can adapt to new business models, scale on demand to support new s ...
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The state of Segment Routing: A look at the past, ...
It’s been two years since our last research study on the role of Segment Routing (SR) in networks. What has changed? What’s remai ...
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The submarine network seascape in 2020
Ciena’s submarine networking expert, Brian Lavallée, highlights key areas for focused innovation throughout 2020.
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The top 6 features of a truly future-proof conver ...
In this blog we detail how evolving networks cost effectively with converged Ethernet and IP can help network operators keep pace ...
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The transformation of PON
Ciena’s Wayne Hickey explains the transformation of PON and fills in the blanks to help guide you to which PON is the right PON f ...
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There's a better way: Ciena’s Adaptive IP
Network simplicity, scalability and cost-efficiency are key to supporting new and emerging applications. What does that mean for ...
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There's No Place Like Home—With a Good Network Co ...
Residential users need broadband services that are reliable, high performance, secure, and highly cost-effective.
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Three Steps to Clear the Mobile Backhaul Bottlene ...
The web-scale world means massive mobile consumption. What happens when demand for a product or service continues to grow exponen ...
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Top 10 things utilities should know about packet ...
Utilities are in a time of transition. Legacy communications circuits are being discontinued by carriers and there is pressure fo ...
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Top 5 business benefits of modernizing legacy net ...
Want to modernize your Business Services (TDM, Layer 2, and Layer 3) to cost-effectively generate new revenue streams without adv ...
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Top Ten Ways High-Performance Ethernet Transforms ...
This document outlines ten ways Ethernet is already driving the evolution of high-performance networks across states and municipa ...