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CienaLife: Representation matters - HBCU grads sh ...
Two Ciena employees discuss their experiences at HBCUs to Celebrate Black History Month.
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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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MEF16: We have a winner!
Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet division details the multi-vendor Proof of Concept demo the team conducted with CenturyLink and ...
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Virtualizing the World of Cable
It’s not surprising that cable operators are virtualizing their networks. Not only is it the logical step to reduce power and sav ...
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Meet the Ciena Cares Champions
We’re shining a light on our Ciena Cares Champions—the people who drive our workplace giving and volunteering programs for their ...
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A Guide to Avoiding Automation Islands
Autonomous networking is all the rage. Networking vendors are touting their automation visions, and service providers are creatin ...
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of DonRiver
Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of DonRiver. Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson details how the integration of these ne ...
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Packet Design
Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of Packet Design. Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson details how the integration of the ...
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Visualizing the Future of Networking
Ciena has unveiled Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), providing real-time software control and advanced visualization ac ...
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4 Reasons Enterprises Love SD-WAN
Lee Doyle of Doyle Research explains why SD-WAN services are so attractive to enterprises, and what service providers can do to r ...
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A look back on doing good in 2023
We’re looking back on all the good our Ciena team members did for our communities and our planet in 2023.
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Being a Catalyst of Industry Change
Ciena's Sam Torrente details how Ciena Blue Planet and DGIT Systems worked together to create an award-winning solution using ope ...
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Virtualize Your Submarine Cable
Ongoing growth in subsea bandwidth demand has the industry looking for new technologies that can further expand submarine cable c ...
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Keeping the Lights on With Advanced Analytics
Utility companies are facing increasingly daunting challenges, with Ciena’s Advanced Analytics capabilities, the power to keep th ...
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Lessons from #TMFLive: How the Pace of Operations ...
At last week’s TM Forum Live! event, executives did not shy away from the topic of rethinking their business models in order to a ...
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SC17: Super Networks for Super Computers
The SC17 conference provides a perfect opportunity to experience the intersection of high-performance computing with high-perform ...
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Ciena Ottawa engineers 3D print components for Co ...
Ciena’s mechanical engineering and NPI teams, already on the lookout for ways to support health care workers, stepped up help the ...
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Tafari Shambe Forges His Own Path While Paying It ...
Tafari Shambe Forges His Own Path While Paying It Forward at Ciena
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Helping kids walk with the CHEO Foundation
Learn how our Ciena team in Ottawa donated a life-changing robot walker and continue to support CHEO, a global leader in pediatri ...
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Upskilling staff through disruptive times
As enterprises change how they architect networks, they must train staff. Everyone involved—vendors, partners, enterprises—must p ...
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Retail Digitization… Friend or Foe?
The online world is acting as a disruptor to the retail industry. But the same tools that allow consumers to become increasingly ...
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How Financial Enterprises Light Up the Darkness
For some financial institutions, a private dark fiber network provides the control and security they require for data center conn ...
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3 Key Research Trends Poised to Change Our Lives
Ciena's Renee Reinke highlights three key trends in research enabled by supercomputing and the networks that connect them that wi ...