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Ovum Survey: What the market is saying about D-NFV
A new Ovum survey of 200 enterprise decision-makers provides some surprising insights on their views of Distributed NFV.
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Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the s ...
Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two st ...
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Year in review: Ciena’s 5 biggest announcements o ...
From an uptick in 400G services to new acquisitions and partnerships, Ciena’s Bo Gowan highlights the biggest Ciena news and anno ...
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Openness: Ciena’s guiding principle for customer ...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith details how the guiding principle of openness drives Ciena's innovation agenda and how we solve the challeng ...
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Year in review: Ciena’s 7 biggest announcements o ...
As we close out an unprecedented year, let’s look back at some of the biggest Ciena news and announcements from 2020.
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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...
Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.
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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye
While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...
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Chalk Talk - Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MC ...
Tim Pearson, Vice President of Product Management, explains how MCP’s automated operations provide service providers with crucial ...
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Four Reasons You Want a Micro-Services Architectu ...
While the topic of container-based micro-services seems to have become a hot-topic overnight in the networking and telecom space, ...
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Automating the WAN with SDN – Avoiding “Hurry Up ...
“Hurry up and wait!” Too often, this is how pioneers in NFV-based services feel with WAN connectivity that takes weeks to be prov ...
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3 Keys to Having the Right APIs for SDN and NFV
We all understand the promise of SDN and NFV and its ability to unlock agility, flexibility and speed for the network
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When time is money, banks can’t afford a network ...
To deliver a higher quality customer experience, banks of all sizes are deploying innovative digital applications and partnering ...
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Fewer Pizza Boxes: How Virtualization Creates Opp ...
This paper describes how freeing software from hardware is a great business opportunity for service providers.
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IHS Markit’s optical vendor survey is out: Ciena ...
Want to know what service providers really think of optical equipment vendors and their solutions? Here is a peek into IHS Markit ...
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Indigo Submarine Cable Makes Waves with Ciena
In response to this growing trend, SUB.CO and its Australian entity APX Partners are teaming up with Ciena to upgrade its Indigo ...
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Modernising networks with transformative technolo ...
How organisations can migrate from costly, complex legacy infrastructure to modern, adaptive networks that maximise operating eff ...
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Envisioning Intelligent Ops – Turning the Dream i ...
In the first of a 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the journey of Our Hero as he st ...
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Apply BPMN to Enable Network Transformation at th ...
It can be easy to gloss over how complicated it is to integrate new SDN and NFV functionality into an existing OSS. But this inte ...
Podcasts
Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 35: Covid 19’s im ...
Host Rebecca Prudhomme talks with Steve Alexander, Ciena's CTO and Joe Madden from Mobile Experts about Covid-19’s impact on the ...
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4 reasons not to miss Ciena’s Optical Summer Webi ...
Yesterday’s speeds and feeds just can’t cut it in today’s environment, let alone tomorrow’s. How do you meet a future of growing ...
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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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Why Model-Driven Templating Matters with SDN and ...
In the move to SDN and NFV architectures, model-driven templating plays a pivotal role in helping develop and deliver new service ...
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Episode 47: A year in review…and what’s to come i ...
2021 brought a lot of technological advancements. Steve Alexander, Jürgen Hatheier, and Craig Williams discuss what surprised the ...
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Ciena Blue Planet unveils the dawn of service orc ...
Today Ciena’s Blue Planet division unveiled an entirely new architecture. Joe Cumello goes through each of them in this blog post.