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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.
White Papers
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 ...
Application Notes
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 ...
Articles
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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Three Steps to the New Packet Edge
Metro networks are growing and changing and require new thinking to capture new revenue. This paper offers three easy steps to so ...
Articles
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 ...
Articles
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 ...
Infobriefs
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 ...
White Papers
Traditional PON Versus Mixed PON/Active Architect ...
This business case outlines a pluggable mixed PON/active architecture based on Ciena’s Universal Aggregation solution, which allo ...
White Papers
Traditional PON Versus Mixed PON/Active Architect ...
The Passive Optical Network (PON) architecture employs shared fiber to achieve cost savings for network operators, which is cost- ...
Application Notes
Transform Large-Scale Science Collaboration
Ciena’s Science DMZ solution provides universities and research labs scalable, flexible high-capacity transfer of massive data fl ...
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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 ...
Data Sheets
Transparent PDH over Packet Transceivers
Ciena’s Transparent PDH over Packet Transceivers enable cost-effective transport of T1/E1 streams over packet. Transports the T1/ ...
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Turn up your Ethernet services with 100GbE at the ...
With the voracious appetite of consumers in Asia for high-bandwidth content, 100GbE at the edge is coming to APAC sooner than you ...
Application Notes
Ultra-Low Latency Packet WAN For Utilities
SEL and Ciena have validated the ultra-low-latency packet WAN solution that meets and beats the industry standard for latency and ...
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Understanding Segment Routing in Ciena's Adaptive ...
Understand how to evolve to a more scalable, efficient, simplified, and cost-effective network with Segment Routing, using Ciena’ ...