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Opening Up Networks To Choice, At Last

In a world that was previously incapable of being software-driven, fully-integrated solutions once upon a time made sense.

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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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The DevOps Revolution: The “Jig is Up” for Legacy ...

Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...

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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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When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing Networ ...

The demand for communications bandwidth is expanding faster and faster each year, and we’re entering a stage where just Moore’s L ...

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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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Can Service Providers Actually Make Money with NF ...

The acceleration of commercial NFV offers in 2016, including announcements from Orange and CenturyLink...

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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks

Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...

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The Evolution and Revolution of Networking Servic ...

This is the second in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.

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Automate or Die: What Telecom Must Learn from the ...

This is the first in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.

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CORD hits all the right chords with ONOS

Just like how a good song sticks in your head, CORD is hitting all the right notes for network operators looking to re-architect ...

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What is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offloads network functions into software that runs on industry-standard hardware and can be ...

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A closer look at CenturyLink’s Programmable Servi ...

Recep Ozdag details the work the Blue Planet team is doing with CenturyLink as part of their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) ...

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Survey: Network operators still see silos with SD ...

Perceived vendor silos are still an issue for network operators looking to move to SDN/NFV for service virtualization. That’s jus ...

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Applying the “Chicken or the Egg” theory to TOSCA ...

I was recently with a group of colleagues discussing network automation for an upcoming webinar, clearly a top-of-mind topic for ...

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Blue Orbit: Best-of-Breed Building Blocks

Ciena Blue Planet has today added six new members to our Blue Orbit Ecosystem. Unlike other partner programs, 100% of the partner ...

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9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet

Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet

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Q&A with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for Europe

We sit down with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for the European region, to get a status update on the European market and his sense o ...

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3 Ways Software will Change Data Security as We K ...

Much of today's conversation around network security and SDN/NFV revolves around identifying possible security risks when moving ...

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5 factors data centers must contend with in the I ...

Five key factors data center providers must consider for the IoT era

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Year in Review: Ciena's 5 Biggest Announcements o ...

Bo Gowan, Ciena's social media leader, details the top news and announcements from a busy year in 2015 at Ciena.

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Blue Planet and ON.Lab: The ONOS Awakens

Justin Hamende Description Test

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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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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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