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What is Emulation Cloud?

Ciena’s Emulation Cloud™ is a cloud-based software development environment designed to help users create customized applications.

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What is Edge Cloud?

Today’s centralized cloud is comprised of more than 10,000* data centers scattered across the globe. In the next five years, driv ...

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What is SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networ ...

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) agile, simpler, lower-cost infrastructure that manages entire WAN through one interfa ...

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What is Intelligent Automation?

Intelligent automation, built on software-defined control and orchestration with integrated analytics. Find out more about the 3 ...

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What is an autonomous network?

Learn what autonomous networks are and how they revolutionize telecom with AI-driven automation.

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Why SDN?

The key to Ciena’s Blue Planet SDN approach is openness. Blue Planet’s SDN is the vendor-neutral solution customers are turning t ...

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SDN Works Article

Ciena’s Blue Planet provides customer-proven, vendor-neutral SDN solutions for automating service and network provisioning across ...

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What are advanced analytics in optical networking?

Advanced analytics take advantage of new in-service monitoring capabilities, programmable settings, and integrated instrumentatio ...

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How NFV Works

Ciena can help facilitate a network operator’s NFV migration, delivering integrated end-to-end management, virtualization et al.

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Why NFV?

The rise of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has shifted this kind of processing to commodity servers. NFV brings significa ...

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What is Next-Generation Operations Support System ...

Next-Generation Operations Support Systems (NGOSSs) improve on traditional OSSs with a more modern, highly agile, modular, and sc ...

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What is Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO)?

LSO is a framework describing the lifecycle of an end to end connectivity service across one or more network service domains.

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What is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)?

Overview of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Functions run over an open hardware platform, lowering CapEx, OpEx, and accele ...

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What is Software-Defined Networking (SDN)?

4 key advantages of Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Centralized control, vendor neutral, open APIs, better network efficiency ...

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What Is Central Office Re-architected as a Data C ...

Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) is an open-source, flexible, and cost-effective platform that combines NFV, ...

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What is service orchestration?

Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) is a set framework or architecture describing the lifecycle of an end-to-end connectivity s ...

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What Is Virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE ...

vCPE transforms previously hardware-based operations into software-based virtual functions.

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What is web-scale networking?

Web-scale networking enables providers and enterprises to seamlessly keep up with fast-paced developments like video streaming, c ...

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