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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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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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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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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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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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Ciena Insights Podcast: Episode 43: Addressing th ...

On this Ciena podcast hear Mark Freeman of Cullman Electric Cooperative discuss the exciting impact of deploying broadband in the ...

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How utility network managers can gain critical vi ...

Network continuity is vital for utility managers – but traffic congestion can occur at any time impacting the ability to carry th ...

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The Not-So-Secret Ingredients for Building a Util ...

What are the top considerations when it comes to utilities building a packet-optical network? Ciena's Mitch SImcoe serves up the ...

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Want your utility network functions to operate li ...

The demand for smarter networks at the edge has changed how network functions should be delivered. Mitch Simcoe explains why util ...

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The Clock is Ticking for Utilities to Evolve from ...

Ciena’s Malcolm Loro details the discontinuation of these services is happening more suddenly than expected, and clearly nobody i ...

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Ciena And Schweitzer Engineering Labs Team Up On ...

Mitch Simcoe explains how Ciena has partnered with a best in class solution from Schweitzer Engineering Labs to address this spec ...

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Case Studies

REN Assures Portugal's Electric Grid with Blue Pl ...

Due to the criticality of the electric grid, power utilities need reliable service delivery over their IP/MPLS networks. In this ...

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How Interxion Is Growing its Data Center Operatio ...

When Interxion expanded its operations, real-estate and power constraints led to a second data center, connecting the two facilit ...

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Cullman Electric powers Gigabit Broadband speeds ...

Ciena’s middle mile aggregation solution addressed Cullman Electric’s challenges to deliver scalable rural broadband internet ser ...

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Things just got easier. Remove the guesswork and ...

A scalable, robust middle-mile infrastructure will be crucial to expanding broadband in rural areas. But how much bandwidth is ne ...

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Can utilities support high bandwidth for IT appli ...

Can utilities have their cake and eat it too? Ciena’s Mitch Simcoe explains how utilities can meet the challenge of growing bandw ...

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When the lights go out: How utilities can better ...

Do you have access to real-time data and an end-to-end network view to know what network resources are impacted during a power ou ...

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