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What could a cloud-era network mean for you?

With the rapidly rising tide of data and applications, enterprises are increasingly turning to the cloud for scalable solutions. ...

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Webinars

SDN/NFV - Singin’ By the Campfire

This session looks forward and tries to answer what’s next for SDN/NFV.

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Articles

A Guide to Avoiding Automation Islands

Autonomous networking is all the rage. Networking vendors are touting their automation visions, and service providers are creatin ...

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Videos

Chalk Talk - Liquid Spectrum

Ciena's Liquid Spectrum combines highly instrumented, programmable hardware with advanced software applications, allowing you to ...

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Videos

Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) Domain Con ...

Rob Casey, describes how MCP leverages SDN programmability to automate lifecycle operations across Ciena next-generation packet-o ...

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Articles

MEF16: We have a winner!

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet division details the multi-vendor Proof of Concept demo the team conducted with CenturyLink and ...

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Data Sheets

Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (M ...

Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO) is an open software solution that allows network operators to automate the ...

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Press Releases

Ciena Teams with Academy Achievers to Address Edu ...

Ciena has partnered with Academy Achievers to help close the digital and educational gap among students interested in STEM careers

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Videos

Chalk Talk Analytics

Watch this video to learn how Blue Planet Analytics brings the benefits of big data analytics into your network.

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Infobriefs

Analysys Mason Executive Brief: From Autonomous t ...

This executive brief aims to set a clear vision for future ‘adaptive’ wide area networks and their operations. It provides an ada ...

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Articles

The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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Articles

SD-WAN: Threat or Opportunity?

Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet team says SD-WAN in its purest form can be considered a threat to a service provider's traditio ...

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Videos

Blue Planet Intelligent Automation

Service providers globally are looking to transform into Digital Service Providers. However, they are hampered by manually intens ...

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Articles

Virtualizing the World of Cable

It’s not surprising that cable operators are virtualizing their networks. Not only is it the logical step to reduce power and sav ...

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Articles

4 Things We Learned at #OFC17

From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...

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Infographics and posters

Carrier Ethernet Essentials

Carrier Ethernet essentials from yesterday, for today and the future.

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Data Sheets

Explorer Path Provisioning

With the Explorer Path Provisioning application, service providers can quickly and easily create a service catalog of IP/MPLS tra ...

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Articles

Retail Digitization… Friend or Foe?

The online world is acting as a disruptor to the retail industry. But the same tools that allow consumers to become increasingly ...

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Articles

Cable’s move to network automation

Want to hear directly from cable executives about what is driving their network automation strategies? Broadband Success Partners ...

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Articles

Adaptive IP Apps to the rescue

Marie Fiala describes how Ciena’s Adaptive IP Apps come to the rescue by dramatically speeding up troubleshooting and resolution ...

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Videos

Chalk Talk - Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

Find out how Software Defined Networking, an open programmable architecture, helps make networks more efficient, effective, and f ...

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Articles

Delivering true 5G: are we ready?

We discussed with Ciena’s Joe Marsella how mobile and wholesale network operators are gearing up to capitalize on the benefits an ...

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Articles

Visualizing the Future of Networking

Ciena has unveiled Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), providing real-time software control and advanced visualization ac ...

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Podcasts

The Evolving Retail Experience

Ciena’s Corporate Strategist Loudon Blair reflects on the evolving retail landscape and what’s required from a networking perspec ...

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