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Transformation of Government and Public Networks

Ciena offers governments a means to evolve their networks to improve operating efficiency and public benefit.

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Raising Data Center Interconnect to Web-scale Pro ...

The requirements of the new web-scale operational paradigm can only be met by introducing DCI solutions that are built for web-sc ...

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A Practical Approach to Utility Network Moderniza ...

Ciena’s 6200 can provide a low-risk, seamless evolution to next-generation communication architectures while continuing to levera ...

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Residential Broadband for Consulting and Engineer ...

With once-in-a-generation public and private investments, the time is now for CEFs to rethink how to design a next-generation bro ...

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End-to-End Network Encryption for Secure Healthca ...

Despite billions of dollars spent on data security in the healthcare industry, cyber-attacks and data breaches continue at epidem ...

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8180 Coherent Networking Platform: Connecting the ...

IoT usage is set to explode: Billions of things will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Emerging support applications require ...

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Digital Video Transport for Telemedicine and Tele ...

Ciena’s Digital Video Transport solution provides cost-effective packet-optical transport, and enables uncompressed, native SD, H ...

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Is Your R&E Network Ready for the Great Surge?

R&E networks are experiencing a surge in capacity demand as a result of massive growth of streaming media, growing utilization of ...

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Need for Speed and Performance in Healthcare

Healthcare providers of all sizes are generating more digital patient data than ever before. From transmitting 3D medical images ...

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Solving the TDM-to-Packet Migration Challenge

Service providers have a networking challenge and opportunity. They must evolve away from their outdated TDM networks, which are ...

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Craving Bandwidth? Investigate New Ways to Expand ...

This paper highlights three unique scenarios that explain how Ciena’s Waveserver platform can be used to alleviate current R&E ne ...

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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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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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The Need for Speed in Healthcare Networks

Driven by significant growth in application data that needs to be networked among stakeholders in today’s healthcare ecosystem, h ...

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

The 6500 PTS, a high-performing TDM-to-packet technology solution that can provide both legacy and routing and switching services.

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Breaking the Chains of Inflexible Legacy Network ...

This paper explains how to replace aging SDH and Ethernet networks with Ciena’s latest-generation routing and switching aggregati ...

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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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Ciena's 3931 Improves Oversight of Field-Training ...

Using Ciena’s 3931 Service Delivery Switch makes it possible to deliver full performance connectivity to tactical environments.

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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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Carrier-Grade Ethernet as a Foundation for Campus ...

This paper examines how a Layer 2 switching capability based on carrier-grade Ethernet offers the most scalable, reliable, and se ...

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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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WaveLogic 5 Nano 400ZR: Scaling Single-span Data ...

As network bandwidth growth continues unabated and new compute-intensive applications come online, global cloud and content provi ...

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Sometimes More Is More: Advantages of a Private O ...

Building a private network—whether campus, metro, regional, or nationwide—becomes more attractive with the need to support big da ...

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WaveLogic Ai: Laying the Foundation for the Adapt ...

WaveLogic Ai allows you to tune to match that capacity with a single technology that can address any application, from metro Data ...

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