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One year of Programmable 400G: Insights into how ...
It has been one year since we started shipping our WaveLogic Ai coherent optical technology! Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a moment t ...

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Ping is King: Why latency matters as much as netw ...
Ivan Polizzi, Ciena’s Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific, details why network latency is as critic ...

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Get Southeast Asian data centers up and running f ...
With the demand for online services surging throughout Southeast Asia, new data centers and network connectivity are being built ...

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Planning for success – AI insights drive coordina ...
IP and optical network teams each have their own domain technical expertise and at no time is that more obvious than during the c ...

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Change is Good: How Ciena Services is evolving wi ...
From a dedicated and localized support team to an improved customer resource portal, Ciena's VP of Global Services, Greg Friesen, ...

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Looking to transform your network and service ope ...
Tim Pearson and Kailem Anderson discuss some of Ciena’s innovative AIOps use cases, and how AI, including ML and GenAI, significa ...

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My operational costs keep going up – how can I ma ...
Answer: Invest in products where you can, customize operations solutions where you must. Said differently, stop building custom t ...

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Ciena + Samsung: Collaboration paves the road to ...
Ciena’s 5G expert, Brian Lavallée, provides additional details on the company’s joint efforts with Samsung announced last October ...

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Reflecting our People’s Passion for Good: Gary Sm ...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith details the efforts of Ciena's volunteer groups around the world, and how the company's Ciena Cares program ...

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Reopen, reimagine and redesign: how a “virtualize ...
As more employees work remotely, state governments are considering how to best support a more dispersed workforce, while still me ...

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The Digital Telco: Leveraging transformation to i ...
In the third and final blog of our series focusing on the network modernisation and transformation journey communications service ...

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Optical Network Expert Series: Guide to improving ...
Over the past several years, coherent technology advancements have enabled providers to meet increasing capacity demands while co ...

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Interoperability and innovation go hand-in-hand: ...
We’re pleased to announce that Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller has been awarded TIP’s Bronze Badge for c ...

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5G network design is full of challenges, but ther ...
Mobile Network Operators must balance the daunting challenges of profitability, urgency, and uncertainty as they roll out 5G netw ...

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Chart a clear course to an optimized multi-layer ...
Service and content providers must keep up with the unrelenting pace of network growth, while also controlling costs and improvin ...

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Is your tollway authority searching for non-toll ...
Ciena’s Daniele Loffreda discusses options for tollway authorities to generate new revenue sources by leveraging their fiber netw ...

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Things just got easier. Remove the guesswork and ...
A scalable, robust middle-mile infrastructure will be crucial to expanding broadband in rural areas. But how much bandwidth is ne ...

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Need 800G routing? Meet Ciena's 8192 coherent rou ...
The next frontier of coherent routing is here. Ivana Lemos introduces Ciena’s new 8192, the 800G technology advancements that mad ...

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Things just got easier. Remove the guesswork and ...
A scalable, robust middle-mile infrastructure will be crucial to expanding broadband in rural areas. But how much bandwidth is ne ...

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Colt’s transatlantic 1.2Tb/s transmission is a th ...
Colt has achieved 1.2Tb/s per wavelength on its Grace Hopper transatlantic cable by adopting Ciena’s WL6e coherent optics innovat ...

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From natural disasters to cyber threats: The chal ...
Ivan Polizzi, Ciena’s Regional Managing Director of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific details the challenges Australasian s ...

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3 key trends impacting the Edge and platformatiza ...
In the first of this two-part blog series, Ryan Perera, Vice President, Asia Content & Subsea Networks, India & the subcontinent, ...

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Is your metro network architecture ready to scale ...
Ciena’s 8114 Coherent Aggregation Router, the newest member of the 8100 family, brings providers more capacity for dedicated and ...

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More than a photon cannon: What iCAIR, UETN and C ...
iCAIR, UETN and Ciena were recently awarded the Best Long-Distance Performance and Overall Winner of the international Data Mover ...