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Winds of Change in Smart Cities?

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda reflects on the evolution in what he’s hearing from CIOs and others in the smart city movement.

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Why Smart Cities Need Adaptable Pipes

For cities to evolve and realize the full benefits of becoming “smart” they will require real-time access to multiple sources of ...

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Application Notes

WaveLogic Encryption Solution

Read this application note to find out more about WaveLogic Encryption, Ciena’s cost-effective, high-capacity, protocol-agnostic, ...

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Want to simplify and automate your Department of ...

As intelligent transportation technologies evolve in sophistication to improve safety and reduce congestion, Ciena’s Daniele Loff ...

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U.S. broadband funding: Off to the races

The distribution of billions of dollars in U.S. federal funds towards broadband infrastructure has begun. Ciena’s Mitch Simcoe hi ...

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Infobriefs

Transportation Network Modernization

To overcome these growing challenges and fully capture the benefits of ITS technologies, departments of transportation need a mod ...

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Tomorrow's cities: evolving from "smart" to Adapt ...

Cities are going smart – trying to deal with the proliferation of people, sensors, automobiles and a range of devices that demand ...

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Three Tips from SLG Leaders on How Agencies Can W ...

State and local leaders from across the United States share how they’ve managed to shift to a flexible work model and digitize cr ...

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Three key optimization strategies to resolve stat ...

What are the biggest challenges and priorities for state and local government networks? Daniele Loffreda shares insights from rec ...

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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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Case Studies

The Town of Dryden Delivers Rural Broadband to Dr ...

In today’s technology driven world, how people live, work, and play is becoming increasingly dependent on reliable and fast acces ...

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Infobriefs

The Road to Resiliency: Paving the Way for Intell ...

Network optimization is an essential tactic for ensuring organizations have the on-demand connectivity, availability, and perform ...

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Case Studies

The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) Converts to ...

Ciena played a key role in enabling Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) realize its vision by upgrading the network infrastructure ...

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Infobriefs

The Middle Mile: A Critical Link for Broadband Ex ...

Middle-mile fiber optic networks are crucial to delivering broadband connectivity and digital inclusion to rural communities.

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The Adaptive Network Vision webinar recap

Network providers face an unprecedented number of decisions about how to design their networks to support them well into the futu ...

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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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Smarter Roads and a Safer Transportation Future

Road networks are getting smarter, with sensors and networks helping transportation agencies manage congestion and improve safety ...

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Smart Transit: Moving Beyond Points A and B

Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda explains smart transit, the smart rail experience of the future is a fully integrated experience.

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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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Securing "Work from Anywhere" Access to State and ...

In 2022, state and local government agencies remain attractive targets for cyberattacks. Governments are finding that their ‘work ...

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White Papers

Secure Supply Chain for Governments: 2020 securit ...

Ciena takes a comprehensive approach toward maintaining the security and continuity of its supply chain.

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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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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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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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