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7 Facts You Should Know About Carrier Ethernet
Ethernet has become a ubiquitous networking technology -- if you connect anything that uses data, you’re probably using Ethernet. ...
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Liberty Global partners with Ciena to help custom ...
Liberty Global is fulfilling its vision to help customers connect their world with a single provider, and a single, harmonised Ca ...
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Why Migrate from TDM Mobile Backhaul to Packet Mo ...
The case for migrating legacy TDM-based mobile backhaul to packet mobile to meet data and bandwidth demands. See the challenges a ...
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Why are TDM services still around?
TDM services are any service sold by operators to enterprises large and small, that uses a time-based method to multiplex service ...
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Relive Summer with Carrier Ethernet Summer Camp
The kids are back in school. The mornings have the crisp feel of Fall. It's true, summer is over. But that doesn't mean you can't ...
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Why “network slicing” is the key to 5G network ad ...
The 5G bandwidth promise is a whopping 10Gbps to each end user. But what would someone actually do with this amount of bandwidth?
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Ethernet vs. Carrier Ethernet: The New Network Pa ...
Ethernet is everyone's favorite networking technology. Its ubiquity and popularity have pushed it outside the LAN and across almo ...
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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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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...
The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E
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Utilities are modernizing – here are three conver ...
Ciena's Malcolm Loro gives three recurring challenges he's hearing from Utilities providers as they look to modernize their techn ...
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Hacking Rome: Inside the MEF's latest Hackathon e ...
Here is the inside scoop on the recent MEF Hackathon event.
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Strategies for a total communications solution – ...
Alex Connors of Vodafone details the service provider’s new high-capacity Ethernet Services and hybrid WAN portfolio, which uses ...
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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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A Guide to Raising your Carrier Ethernet IQ
Long-time Carrier Ethernet expert and MEF guy John Hawkins gets you up-to-speed on the latest Carrier Ethernet tech with a free 6 ...
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Why 5G Will Change Everything About The Network
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée takes a deep dive into the coming world of 5G and shows why the exact details of what a 5G network will lo ...
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Vendor of the Year: Ciena brings home 3 MEF award ...
The future of both Ciena and the networking industry was on display this week at the MEF’s GEN15 in Dallas, Texas.
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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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GEN15: What the heck is a hackathon?
Interview with John Hawkins one of the industry’s foremost experts on Carrier Ethernet technology.
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Ciena obtains JITC certification, paves the way f ...
The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certification for our layer 2 Ethernet access and aggregation solutions gives DoD ...
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Ciena’s new Waveserver: a dream machine for data ...
Ciena introduces the Waveserver™, a compact and purpose-built platform capable of enabling massive multi-terabit bandwidth for me ...
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Switchboards and Ethernet Services: MEF streamlin ...
Like the telephone switchboards of old, today's Carrier Ethernet services many times require multiple network operators to get to ...
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Ovum ranks Ciena #1 worldwide in booming market f ...
Global analyst firm Ovum unveiled new numbers on the rapidly growing market for data center interconnect with Ciena sitting atop ...
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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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Ciena goes web-scale with new coherent, metro and ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Ciena’s new products and solutions tailored for a new web-scale world.