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CORD hits all the right chords with ONOS
Just like how a good song sticks in your head, CORD is hitting all the right notes for network operators looking to re-architect ...
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What is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offloads network functions into software that runs on industry-standard hardware and can be ...
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Women@Ciena join forces to celebrate Internationa ...
March 8, 2016 is International Women’s Day.At Ciena, we run an initiative called ‘Women @ Ciena’. This is an internal networking ...
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A closer look at CenturyLink’s Programmable Servi ...
Recep Ozdag details the work the Blue Planet team is doing with CenturyLink as part of their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) ...
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Survey: Network operators still see silos with SD ...
Perceived vendor silos are still an issue for network operators looking to move to SDN/NFV for service virtualization. That’s jus ...
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A Guide to Raising your Carrier Ethernet IQ
Long-time Carrier Ethernet expert and MEF guy John Hawkins gets you up-to-speed on the latest Carrier Ethernet tech with a free 6 ...
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Applying the “Chicken or the Egg” theory to TOSCA ...
I was recently with a group of colleagues discussing network automation for an upcoming webinar, clearly a top-of-mind topic for ...
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Blue Orbit: Best-of-Breed Building Blocks
Ciena Blue Planet has today added six new members to our Blue Orbit Ecosystem. Unlike other partner programs, 100% of the partner ...
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A peek inside CenturyLink’s National 100G Ultra L ...
CenturyLink began using Ciena’s 6500 platform in 2013 to modernize and upgrade its national network and offer high-speed services ...
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9 questions answered about Ciena Blue Planet
Ciena answers 9 questions about its Blue Planet
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Q&A with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for Europe
We sit down with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for the European region, to get a status update on the European market and his sense o ...
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Why 5G Will Change Everything About The Network
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée takes a deep dive into the coming world of 5G and shows why the exact details of what a 5G network will lo ...
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Telindus and Ciena’s new 200G WaveLogic Encryptio ...
Geert Degezelle, Managing Director at Telindus, talks about the company's new 200G encryption service powered by Ciena
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3 Ways Software will Change Data Security as We K ...
Much of today's conversation around network security and SDN/NFV revolves around identifying possible security risks when moving ...
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WaveLogic Encryption brings effortless in-flight ...
Ciena's new WaveLogic Encryption solution brings simple, in-flight data encryption to 100G and 200G speeds.
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5 factors data centers must contend with in the I ...
Five key factors data center providers must consider for the IoT era
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Year in Review: Ciena's 5 Biggest Announcements o ...
Bo Gowan, Ciena's social media leader, details the top news and announcements from a busy year in 2015 at Ciena.
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Telindus brings in the New Year as first to achie ...
The Managing Director Geert Degezelle of Telindus, Geert talks about Telindus' achievement as the first organization to achieve C ...
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New IHS Infonetics service provider survey puts C ...
IHS Infonetics has released the results from its annual Service Provider survey of Optical Equipment vendors. Here's how Ciena fa ...
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Transform your DCI with API
Smartphones have improved our productivity significantly. They have become platforms instead of just phones. APIs have enabled us ...
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Ciena voted Data Center Innovation of the Year fo ...
Ciena voted Data Center Innovation of the year for waveserver
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Vendor of the Year: Ciena brings home 3 MEF award ...
The future of both Ciena and the networking industry was on display this week at the MEF’s GEN15 in Dallas, Texas.
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MEF CE2.0 Certified 100G Ethernet Services Hit Ma ...
Ciena's 8700 Packetwave Platform now has a new Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification for 100GbE services, which was presented by the ...