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Modern, Agile Networks for the Super-high-bandwid ...

Rapid adoption of cloud services, video streaming, 4G and 5G wireless backhaul, and a range of other high-bandwidth applications ...

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Application Notes

Blueprint for Utility Network Modernization: Cien ...

This paper explains how Ciena’s 6500 PTS solves multiple TDM-to-packet migration challenges.

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Videos

Intelligent multi-layer operations with Navigator ...

Learn how Ciena’s Navigator Network Control Suite provides a single point of control to visualize and optimize multi-layer networ ...

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Webinars

Network Modernization: Understanding Circuit and ...

Get an overview of circuit and pseudowire emulation and how to transport private line service over a packet-based network.

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eBooks

Guide to Transforming Photonic Network Operations ...

Ciena’s Liquid Spectrum helps providers extract the full value of network assets across all stages of the photonic network lifecy ...

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White Papers

A Smarter Communications Network for the Smart Gr ...

As electric utilities evolve to the smart grid, they need a comparable evolution of the underlying communications network.

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Webinars

Beyond 100GbE: The Critical Role of Coherent Opti ...

Today’s network edge is once again being redefined. Join us to see how coherent optics and packet technologies help extend 100G a ...

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Articles

Can utilities have their multi-layered cake and e ...

Utilities are facing increasing bandwidth demands on their communications networks. Ciena's Mitch Simcoe explains how modernizing ...

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Articles

Ciena Wins UTC Impact Award for Software With Adv ...

For today’s utility companies, reliability is key but they don’t have a crystal ball telling them how reliable their networks are ...

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Webinars

xHaul Transport Networks will Dictate the Success ...

Understand why the xHaul (fronthaul, midhaul, backhaul) transport network will dictate 5G’s end-to-end success.

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Infobriefs

Crossing the Chasm: Migrating from Fixed- to Flex ...

Migrating from a fixed- to a flex-grid photonic network architecture—and the new operational paradigm this entails—can seem overw ...

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Videos

Evolutionize Your Network with Ciena's TDM-to-Pac ...

Ciena's CTO Steve Alexander talks about how Ciena TDM-to-Packet solutions, including the 6500 PTS, provides an elegant, simple ap ...

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Videos

Own the Edge: Ciena’s leaders discuss the role of ...

Ciena's leaders talk about how IP/Optical convergence can transform your metro and edge network to increase operational automatio ...

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Case Studies

Generating Advanced Connectivity for the Israel E ...

Israel Electric Corporation will utilize Ciena’s Manage, Control & Plan software for unified network management and end-to-end se ...

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Webinars

Transforming IP Connectivity with Segment Routing ...

Gain insights into why Segment Routing technology will be one of the pillars of the next-generation of mobile networks and its ef ...

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Application Notes

Modernizing Utility Communications Networks to Me ...

This paper summarizes how packet networking can be used to simplify and expedite network migration to achieve a more modern commu ...

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Case Studies

Converged IT/OT Network Amps Up Resilience for Ce ...

The Carrier Ethernet substation WAN solution that Ciena and Schweitzer Engineering Labs (SEL) delivered to Central Lincoln addres ...

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Case Studies

Major Utility Taps the Power of Ciena to Build a ...

Read this case study to learn how this major utility—using Ciena’s Adaptive Network—has reduced costs; improved network security ...

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White Papers

Omdia: 800G Technology - Does Double Capacity Mea ...

Read the report to learn how 800G technology brings performance improvements, expanded capacity, and more cost-effective solution ...

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White Papers

Elegant Migration from TDM to a Modern Routing an ...

IP/MPLS approaches guarantee their ability to support legacy customers and help operators pursue emerging opportunities, such as ...

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Articles

Ciena And Aviat Team Up On Unified Fiber-Microwav ...

Building advanced utility communications networks requires a solution with superior performance that spans both fiber and microwa ...

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White Papers

Network Strategies to Drive Lower Costs amid High ...

This paper discusses how OTN and MPLS-TP can be jointly deployed to optimize IP router infrastructures.

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White Papers

Heavy Reading: The Transformation Choice - Data C ...

As the explosion of data continues, distributed cloud-native applications will dictate how and where data centers are built and d ...

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Webinars

Universal Aggregation: Consolidating Packet and O ...

Get an overview of how to consolidate separate service architectures onto a simple, open, and lean packet-based network.

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