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5 ways to future-proof your network today to supp ...
It’s impossible to predict what networks will be required to handle in the coming years, especially when it comes to the internet ...
Infobriefs
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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EdTech: 6 Reasons Why Your E-Rate Funding Request ...
Wondering why your E-Rate funding request was denied or delayed? Ciena's SLED & Healthcare Industry Advisor, Daniele Loffreda, ex ...
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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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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.
Articles
Concern, Confusion and Hope Surround E-Rate Progr ...
Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda reflects on current conventional wisdom among E-rate stakeholders.
Infobriefs
Ed Tech, BYOD, and Digital. Oh My!
New technologies are enabling an evolution in digital curriculum, learning analytics, and personalization of education.
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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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Five K-12 Trends That Will Make Life Interesting ...
A new year and a new administration meets a K-12 technology evolution that is rolling along full steam. Will there be changes tha ...
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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.
Infographics and posters
Powering 21
Download this infographic to learn how the evolution of education technology will have a significant impact on your broadband net ...
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How to Ensure Your K12 Broadband Network Makes th ...
Daniele Loffreda, Ciena's education networks expert, details what your K12 Broadband network needs to be ready.
Application Notes
Learning at the Speed of Light
When security, scalability, predictability, assurance, and control are critical, a private fiber network is the best solution, of ...
White Papers
Defending the Smart City
With all the hype around ‘Smart’ Cities, you would think they are ubiquitous. With their many potential threats to the network ut ...
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 ...
Infobriefs
Creating an Apples-to-Apples Comparison of Dark F ...
This paper offers suggestions for structuring RFPs to ensure an ‘apples-to-apples’ comparison between dark fiber self-provisioned ...
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 ...
Application Notes
WaveLogic Encryption Solution
Read this application note to find out more about WaveLogic Encryption, Ciena’s cost-effective, high-capacity, protocol-agnostic, ...
Application Notes
Rethinking Campus Networks
Campus networks are undergoing a rapid evolution of user- and application-driven network capacity and utilization demands, drivin ...
Application Notes
Protecting In-Flight Data: Network Encryption for ...
Modern government depends increasingly on the secure collection and distribution of information among agencies and citizens. At t ...
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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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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Defending the smart city: 3 aspects to a holistic ...
With all the hype around Smart Cities today, you’d think they are ubiquitous. But even though there are a few high-profile exampl ...
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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 ...