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Blue Planet Analytics: Unlock your network’s trea ...
Network analytics are only as valuable as your ability to collect, centralize and interpret the data. Enter Blue Planet Analytics.
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4 key business plan levers to achieve successful ...
The FCC recently announced the winners of the first round of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). Now comes the task of deliver ...
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Benefits of a hybrid packet-optical based archite ...
Ciena’s Mitch Simcoe details the need for metro networks to offer scalable and direct connections to the cloud core for a seamles ...
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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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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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Ciena's Blue Planet and ONAP: Embracing Openness ...
Ciena has officially joined the Linux Foundation's Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) project. Nirav Modi reporting from ...
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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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Do enterprises have to use ‘TruckerNet’ to migrat ...
The initial migration of enterprise data to the cloud can be a massive undertaking involving Terabytes (even Petabytes) of data. ...
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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 ...