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Programming the network: And you thought apps wer ...

Apps have become essential to our daily lives, and now they are essential for networks. Ciena's Fady Masoud explains.

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Nothing but Growth for UK Virtualisation Market A ...

What did a recent study of UK business demand for virtual IT services and NFV reveal? The results may surprise you.

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Ethernet Adventures: Making Progress with an Old ...

In the second post of this 3-part series, we unravel one hero’s journey on the road to streamlined enterprise networking operatio ...

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The real value of Managed Services: More than jus ...

Managed services done right is proactive monitoring, maintenance, and operations beyond keeping the basic reactive

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Preview our Top 5 online courses to celebrate Nat ...

September 15 is National Online Learning Day, and Ciena is joining with others to celebrate the opportunities and advances that o ...

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The Road to Autonomous Networks: Learning to Thri ...

In the third and final installment of his 3-part series on the Road to Autonomous Networks, Ciena’s Joe Marsella details the bene ...

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Lead with innovation: Carrier Ethernet services m ...

The popularity and increasing demand for Carrier Ethernet is driving adoption throughout Latin America and globally, while also c ...

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Why Successful Business Transformation Requires a ...

New coherent technology innovations are now making it possible to challenge several longstanding assumptions associated with how ...

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Trends and Insights from Heavy Reading's 5G Netwo ...

Heavy Reading recently published its 5G Network Strategies Operator Survey results. Ciena’s Francisco Sant’Anna digs into the num ...

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Ciena unveils Liquid Spectrum: The future of soft ...

For all the “agile” innovation over the last decade, today's optical networks are still predominantly static. This changes with C ...

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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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Digital-First India: Building a future proof and ...

How did Airtel build a new infrastructure that can dynamically adjust and keep up with ever-changing user demands in India?

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Standards Update: 200GbE, 400GbE and Beyond with ...

Ciena's Helen Xenos talks to Pete Anslow, our Ethernet standards guru, about the newly approved IEEE standards for 200GbE and 400 ...

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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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Without an innovative new approach to xHaul, 5G m ...

Backhaul has traditionally been the afterthought when it comes to planning next-generation cellular networks. But in the 5G era, ...

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How coherent technology decisions that start in t ...

What is the difference between 400G, 600G and 800G coherent solutions? It seems to be obvious, but is it just about maximum wavel ...

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Helping the planet and driving better economics, ...

Not all ZR plugs are created equal. They might all be standards-based, but that’s where the similarities end. What would signific ...

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How to ensure your Network Analytics Solution Can ...

Big Data Analytics promise to enable a more intelligent and automated network infrastructure. But if that's the goal, what featur ...

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Realizing the Digital Age: Why connecting the pla ...

Most of us share the firmly-held belief that by connecting the planet we will truly transform the world and improve both producti ...

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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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Life’s tough in the great outdoors, especially fo ...

Sometimes you have to be super-tough to survive – and the same’s true for any packet-optical network equipment, especially if you ...

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Our involvement with AT&T’s 400GbE trial and ...

AT&T has successfully trialed 400GbE across its production network. Helen Xenos details how Ciena helped make it happen, and what ...

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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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Stay up-to-date on DCI with the Data Center Inter ...

Data Center Interconnect (DCI) technologies have evolved to meet the differing needs of today’s on-demand society. Kent Jordan in ...

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