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Top 10 things utilities should know about packet ...
Utilities are in a time of transition. Legacy communications circuits are being discontinued by carriers and there is pressure fo ...
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Opening Up Networks To Choice, At Last
In a world that was previously incapable of being software-driven, fully-integrated solutions once upon a time made sense.
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3 Keys to Having the Right APIs for SDN and NFV
We all understand the promise of SDN and NFV and its ability to unlock agility, flexibility and speed for the network
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8 Slides from Mary Meeker’s 2016 internet and ban ...
Richard van der Draay reviews some of the findings, focusing mainly on bandwidth growth and usage.
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The DevOps Revolution: The “Jig is Up” for Legacy ...
Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...
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DCI for Media – Interconnecting Manchester to sup ...
Colin Sempill, Managing Director at SSE Enterprise Telecoms, talks about how the media sector is undergoing a massive restructuri ...
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Virtualization is nothing without infrastructure: ...
The increasing demand for capacity is driving the need to build open, intelligent, physical infrastructure for R&E
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Utilities are modernizing – here are three conver ...
Ciena's Malcolm Loro gives three recurring challenges he's hearing from Utilities providers as they look to modernize their techn ...
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Papers from SubOptic 2016 - Emerging Subsea Netwo ...
At SubOptic 2016, which was held in beautiful Dubai a few weeks ago, hundreds of enthusiastic attendees discussed (and debated) t ...
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When Moore Is Not Enough – Why Our Growing Networ ...
The demand for communications bandwidth is expanding faster and faster each year, and we’re entering a stage where just Moore’s L ...
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Defending the smart city: 3 aspects to a holistic ...
With all the hype around Smart Cities today, you’d think they are ubiquitous. But even though there are a few high-profile exampl ...
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Hacking Rome: Inside the MEF's latest Hackathon e ...
Here is the inside scoop on the recent MEF Hackathon event.
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Connecting Data Centers Under the Sea
New submarine cables, especially those owned and operated by ICPs, should land in non-traditional locations that are closer to th ...
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Can Service Providers Actually Make Money with NF ...
The acceleration of commercial NFV offers in 2016, including announcements from Orange and CenturyLink...
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Strategies for a total communications solution – ...
Alex Connors of Vodafone details the service provider’s new high-capacity Ethernet Services and hybrid WAN portfolio, which uses ...
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3 Practical Case Studies for Gov’t Network Innova ...
Today’s government networks are often a combination of SONET, Ethernet, and IP infrastructure components, much of which is nearin ...
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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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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks
Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...
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The Evolution and Revolution of Networking Servic ...
This is the second in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.
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8 Warning Signs You Need A Better Data Center Int ...
These data centers are the heart of our In this post, Ciena's DCI expert outlines 8 key reasons it might be time for you to revis ...
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5 Stars: Taking our BizConnect partner program to ...
Ciena’s BizConnect partner program has been recognized as one of the industry’s best, receiving a 5-Star rating in The Channel Co ...
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SubOptic 2016: Ciena's Ian Clarke dives into the ...
April 18-21 in Dubai is SubOptic 2016, one of the most anticipated events on the calendar for the submarine networks industry. In ...
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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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The History of Carrier Ethernet
Ethernet has been around for decades and has claimed the title of the superior Local Area Networking (LAN) technology of choice.