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Diamond State Networks Middle Mile Project for Ar ...

Ciena has helped build a carrier-grade, adaptive, and responsive middle-mile network that underpins connectivity for remote commu ...

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Articles

4 Benefits SDN Brings to Government Network Secur ...

With the government’s focus turning to cybersecurity, SDN is quickly becoming the best way for defense and intelligence organizat ...

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Infobriefs

Modernizing and monetizing DOT networks without f ...

The funding from the FY 2021 Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program, and the Infrastructure Investment and J ...

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Infobriefs

Government Agencies and the Edge: The Power of Vi ...

IT infrastructure at the edge is essential to day-to-day government operations. Application servers et al keep remote agency loca ...

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Infobriefs

Scaling for the Next Giant

In the recent Light Reading webinar entitled, Ciena's Senior VP and CTO, Steve Alexander, examined three real-world case studies ...

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Articles

No network modernization job is too big or too sm ...

Ciena’s Wayne Hickey details how to transform your business with our field-proven TDM-to-Packet solutions.

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Infobriefs

New Network Builds: Strategies for closing the di ...

With a spate of federal funding available, states and localities are considering new fiber network builds to address urgent chall ...

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Infobriefs

There's No Place Like Home—With a Good Network Co ...

Residential users need broadband services that are reliable, high performance, secure, and highly cost-effective.

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Articles

The 5G Smart City: Cities are Lining up for a Sli ...

Smart Cities are coming, and 5G network slicing technology will enable them, with its ability to enable the critical services tha ...

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White Papers

SDN and NFV: The Brains Behind the Smart City

In major metropolitan areas and smaller cities alike, governments are considering SDN and NFV to deliver the agility and flexibil ...

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Infobriefs

Prevent Transportation System Downtime with Resil ...

IT professionals encounter seemingly endless challenges and demands that can impact the quality of the motorist experience. Any t ...

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Articles

Adaptive Learning is the Future of Education. Are ...

Educators are increasingly leaning on EdTech and Adaptive Learning tools that personalize and improve the student learning experi ...

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Infographics and posters

How the Adaptive Network Can Help Save America's ...

Ciena’s Adaptive Network provides the technology foundation needed to simplify, scale, and automate today’s ITS and make our road ...

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Articles

Is technology the answer to stopping unsafe drivi ...

All of us at times, are guilty of unsafe driving. Learn about a project Ciena is working on with the Colorado Department of Trans ...

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Infobriefs

Build-Your-Own Broadband: The Key to High-Speed A ...

Discover how a build-your-own model could revolutionize broadband expansion in underserved areas.

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Application Notes

Building Better Networks for State and Local Gove ...

Networking technology offers an opportunity to provide better service with lower taxpayer cost. A modern, converged network utili ...

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Articles

Fixed wireless access + fiber = smart, connected ...

The investment needed to improve and repair public physical transportation infrastructure for things like roads, bridges, and hig ...

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Videos

Network Optimization: Strategies for More Efficie ...

Watch this video to understand how agencies can optimize their networks to ensure they have the on-demand connectivity, availabil ...

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Articles

EdTech update: Networks for the future of educati ...

Ciena's Andrew Roberts talks about the latest trends in learning and EdTech. This is the first of a three-part blog series on the ...

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Application Notes

A Path to a Modern and Versatile Government Broad ...

This paper summarizes government networking challenges and opportunities and introduces Ciena’s 6500 Packet Transport System a pr ...

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Articles

SDN: a not-so-secret ingredient for transforming ...

Software-defined networking or SDN is the key to opening up ICT change programmes.

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Articles

3 Classroom Tech Trends Impacting Your Education ...

With classroom and educational technology usage exploding, it’s time to examine three tech trends that are going to have a signif ...

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Case Studies

Ciena Helps CANARIE Support Data-Intensive Resear ...

CANARIE has deployed a super-fast 100G network infrastructure on its backbone research and education network powered by Ciena’s 6 ...

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Articles

Smart City Politics: Are Smart City Projects in f ...

The changes we're seeing in the political landscape have the immediate potential to fundamentally reshape the direction of the Sm ...

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