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How to Right-Size Your Middle-Mile Network for Ru ...
Ciena’s Mitch Simcoe explains all the factors that you need to consider when designing your middle-mile network for rural broadba ...
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How open standards in optical networks lead to de ...
A tongue-in-cheek saying is: ‘The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from’. Yet open standards play a ...
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3 videos about next-generation 400G networking yo ...
Don’t miss these 3 videos that explain what the next-generation optical networking is, how it works, and how it was developed.
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Ciena voted Data Center Innovation of the Year fo ...
Ciena voted Data Center Innovation of the year for waveserver
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A closer look at CenturyLink’s Programmable Servi ...
Recep Ozdag details the work the Blue Planet team is doing with CenturyLink as part of their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) ...
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Meet the leaders of our Black and African Heritag ...
Todd Chapman and Terry Miller, the leaders of our Black and African Heritage employee resource group share what inspired them to ...
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Employee-run annual golf tournament is making an ...
On August 16, 2022, after a two-year hiatus, our people came together at the Greensmere Golf and Country Club in Ottawa for the a ...
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Managed Services and the art of making molehills ...
Managing your network can quickly become a mountain of effort and resources. Ciena’s Tim Wilson looks at a way to reframe the dis ...
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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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A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...
Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...
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800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...
The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...
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How photonic control plane advancements are benef ...
A photonic control plane is not new to optical networks, but new capabilities are changing how operators can benefit from it. Cie ...
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How the Ciena Partner Network is changing the par ...
Learn how Ciena is evolving traditional partner program structures in favor of a more personalized, flexible approach.
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Getting Ahead of the NFV Complexity Curve with Ad ...
One of the concerns of moving to NFV is that the service delivery model can be more complex than traditional hardware-based netwo ...
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Rise of the machines, and the options for connect ...
The Internet of Things is coming, and there is a litany of ways they can be connected to the network. Ciena's Brian Lavallée deta ...
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Latest trends in optical networks- straight from ...
The optical industry came together in Nice for NGON & DCI World last week. Helen Xenos gives you an update on the important topic ...
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Fixed to Flex migration: a proficient way to mode ...
Migrating from a fixed-grid to flex-grid optical infrastructure delivers greater capacity while also reducing cost per bit. But m ...
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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another win ...
Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala e ...
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Q&A session: Blue Orbit and Service Provider ...
Ciena's new Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit is creating a buzz with our customers and partners. Two of our experts explain what it is ...
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5 awesome new technologies you’ll see on the Cien ...
Next week is the OFC’17 Conference in Los Angeles, and Ciena is bringing our Ciena Innovation Lab filled with all the newest tech ...
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The next generation of partnerships – investing i ...
How Ciena’s model for partnership success is impacting customer outcomes
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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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Behind the scenes with Ciena’s new Blue Planet ar ...
Hear the technology experts that have been working directly on our new Blue Planet architecture over the last year.
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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 ...