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Automation’s necessity for full 5G deployments
As service providers in the Asia-Pacific region race to deploy 5G, software and new network intelligence will be critical to ensu ...

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Automation Makes Network Security a Much Bigger P ...
To ensure automation becomes a key differentiator, Ciena’s Rebecca Prudhomme explains that companies need to address any concerns ...

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Automating the WAN with SDN – Avoiding “Hurry Up ...
“Hurry up and wait!” Too often, this is how pioneers in NFV-based services feel with WAN connectivity that takes weeks to be prov ...
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Automate or Die: What Telecom Must Learn from the ...
This is the first in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.

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Automate network operations smarter and faster wi ...
The race is on to advance generative AI (GenAI) models so they can be applied creatively to a slew of use cases to make our lives ...

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AutoHack18: Unleashing the Power of Open Platform ...
Ciena is collaborating with University of Melbourne's Networked Society Institute (NSI) and nbn for AutoHack18, a unique extended ...

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At Ciena work is not about when or where, but how ...
One Ciena employee discusses how the company’s flexible and inclusive culture empowers her to flourish in an on-demand world

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AsiaPac CSPs are racing to keep up with the digit ...
AsiaPac service providers are looking to evolve their offerings and operations to address the challenges from disruptive competit ...

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ASEAN Light Bytes: Building Vietnam’s Optical Bac ...
Ciena has been a fixture in Vietnam for more than 20 years, preceding the company’s acquisition of Nortel. Throughout the past de ...

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Are You Ready for the DOCSIS Impact on Fiber?
DOCSIS 3.1 is 10 times faster than 3.0 but this added speed brings challenges. Find out the how it will impact fiber deployments ...
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Are you asking these questions from potential MPL ...
Are you a transport or a mobile backhaul operator aiming to deploy an easy-to-operate Ethernet transport solution based on MPLS-T ...
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Aqua Comms – New Kid on the Trans-Atlantic Block
This blog details Aqua Comms new submarine cable systems in the Atlantic. Aqua Comms is the owner and operator of two fully opera ...
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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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Apply BPMN to Enable Network Transformation at th ...
It can be easy to gloss over how complicated it is to integrate new SDN and NFV functionality into an existing OSS. But this inte ...

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Answering the phone even before the customer calls
What if you could have more eyes on your network, resulting in a shorter resolution time for problems and an ability to focus on ...

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Announcing the Ciena Solutions Challenge Sustaina ...
Thank you to all students and educators who participated in this year’s Ciena Solutions Challenge.
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Announcing Emulation Cloud: The Ultimate DIY Play ...
If you’re fed up with sluggish development, disjointed software pieces and endless API cloud integration issues, then we have som ...

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Analyst Insights: Multi-layer SDN with enriched a ...
IP and optical network layers are converging, providing new challenges to the operations teams tasked with managing them. To get ...

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An Exciting Showcase of Innovation, Practicality ...
Teams of students at the University of Melbourne recently competed in AutoHack18 to create innovative automation solutions using ...

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Altibox Carrier’s NO-UK Submarine Cable: Open. Gr ...
A few weeks ago, Altibox Carrier announced that the NO-UK submarine cable system achieved record-breaking 800Gb/s line rate with ...

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All the benefits of multi-vendor, converged netwo ...
The IP/Optical convergence trend is in full swing, yet there continue to be challenges on the network operations side. Lack of co ...

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All dressed up, and nowhere to go
With the world's data centers increasingly connected across continents, there's now a critical symbiotic relationship between sub ...

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Aligning Blue Planet with the future of intellige ...
Ciena’s Blue Planet is being evolved into a more independent division focused on intelligent automation. Rick Hamilton, who leads ...

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AI monetization: A new revenue growth agenda for ...
Explore how AI networks are supporting the future of artificial intelligence, enabling scalable, intelligent, and adaptive infras ...