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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye
While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...
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Detailing Ciena’s massive new 15 Terabit OTN swit ...
This morning Ciena has unveiled a major update to our 5430 Packet-Optical Platform, giving it a massive upgrade to 15 Terabits of ...
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5 questions to evaluate OTN switching for your ne ...
Paul Littlewood, principal engineer in Ciena's CTO office and co-author of the
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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...
Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.
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OTN vs SONET/SDH: Comparing the differences
After nearly 25 years since the introduction of SONET/SDH, the evolution of these standards has ceased, and the majority of SONET ...
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Infonetics: Ciena hitting on all cylinders, leads ...
Infonetics has just released its 2015 Optical Network Hardware Scorecard. In it, Ciena is described as hitting on all cylinders a ...
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Defining the 3 Factions of SDN
This post defines the three factions of Software Defined Networking.
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Will Netflix Eat Europe’s Bandwidth Alive?
Netflix’s recent rollout in six European countries is now expanding further, with the announcement of Italy, Portugal and Spain a ...
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Ciena unveils a carrier-grade CPE for NFV
Since Ciena announced our NFV solution, Agility Matrix, in December, we have been quite busy working a variety of enhancements to ...
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Ciena 6500 first optical platform to achieve FIPS ...
Encrypting in-flight data is now easier than ever thanks to Ciena's Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 3 ...
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9 Bandwidth Facts from Mary Meeker's 2015 Interne ...
Nine facts and charts we've pulled from from Mary Meeker's 2015 report that focus specifically on bandwidth and Internet consumpt ...
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Ciena’s new Waveserver: a dream machine for data ...
Ciena introduces the Waveserver™, a compact and purpose-built platform capable of enabling massive multi-terabit bandwidth for me ...
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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 ...
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Ciena’s WaveLogic 3 and Ericsson help Telstra ach ...
Ericsson today released the latest progress and accomplishments with its trans-Australian network deployment with Telstra – inclu ...
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Defending the Castle: A multi-layered approach to ...
Ciena’s research work with universities seeks the discovery of new ways with which to leverage programmable network resources and ...
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Switchboards and Ethernet Services: MEF streamlin ...
Like the telephone switchboards of old, today's Carrier Ethernet services many times require multiple network operators to get to ...
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Ovum ranks Ciena #1 worldwide in booming market f ...
Global analyst firm Ovum unveiled new numbers on the rapidly growing market for data center interconnect with Ciena sitting atop ...
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The 8700 Strikes Again: Two New Innovation Awards ...
Ciena’s new 8700 Packetwave Platform strikes again, back in the news after receiving two new industry innovation awards.
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The Metro gets a brand new 100G architecture opti ...
Traditionally, operators have had to choose between two types of photonic architectures when deploying an optical network: a pass ...
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Ciena’s new coherent chipsets raise the optical b ...
Ciena has unveiled two new coherent chipsets that represent the latest innovations with our WaveLogic 3 technology.
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Ciena goes web-scale with new coherent, metro and ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Ciena’s new products and solutions tailored for a new web-scale world.
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PTC'15: Ciena’s newest 100G tech further extends ...
Ciena has unveiled new capabilities for its GeoMesh submarine networks solution that further extends the capacity and distance ca ...
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A service provider’s guide to on-demand service p ...
The move to providing on-demand services is not just a technical challenge. How do you price them? How do you make sure they don' ...