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Coherent optical turns 10: Here’s how it was made
This is the story of how a team of over 100 people in Ciena's R&D labs pulled together an impressive collection of technology inn ...
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4 critical requirements for the next-gen photonic ...
Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains the four critical photonic layer requirements to ensuring a successful network transformation.
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Why ROADM architectures make sense for your DCI n ...
Simple, point-to-point data center interconnect networks are the norm, so why are network operators considering ROADM for their m ...
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Four Reasons You Want a Micro-Services Architectu ...
While the topic of container-based micro-services seems to have become a hot-topic overnight in the networking and telecom space, ...
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Q&A with Ciena CEO Gary Smith on Cyan Acquisi ...
Ciena today completed its acquisition of Cyan, a leading provider of next-gen software and platforms to enable SDN networks.
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The SDN Resource Adapter: More than Meets the Eye
While NFV has largely owned the network virtualization industry spotlight of late, there is a rising tide of interest around conf ...
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IHS Markit’s optical vendor survey is out: Ciena ...
Want to know what service providers really think of optical equipment vendors and their solutions? Here is a peek into IHS Markit ...
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Hawaiki: from canoes to connected broadband in th ...
Ciena's Brian Lavallée sat down recently with Hawaiki Chief Executive Officer, Rémi Galasso to discuss the firm’s mission to tran ...
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Protecting $10 Trillion Worth of Transactions, Ev ...
Back in 2010, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Reliability of Global Undersea Cable Communications Infrastructure (ROGUCCI) re ...
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The Metro gets a brand new 100G architecture opti ...
Traditionally, operators have had to choose between two types of photonic architectures when deploying an optical network: a pass ...
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Altibox Carrier’s NO-UK Submarine Cable: Open. Gr ...
A few weeks ago, Altibox Carrier announced that the NO-UK submarine cable system achieved record-breaking 800Gb/s line rate with ...
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Modernising networks with transformative technolo ...
How organisations can migrate from costly, complex legacy infrastructure to modern, adaptive networks that maximise operating eff ...
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The benefits of an integrated C&L-band photon ...
Network providers are looking for new alternatives to unlock additional network capacity. Ciena’s Kent Jordan explains how upgrad ...
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Apply BPMN to Enable Network Transformation at th ...
It can be easy to gloss over how complicated it is to integrate new SDN and NFV functionality into an existing OSS. But this inte ...
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4 reasons not to miss Ciena’s Optical Summer Webi ...
Yesterday’s speeds and feeds just can’t cut it in today’s environment, let alone tomorrow’s. How do you meet a future of growing ...
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Ciena’s top 5 resources to help you prepare for t ...
May 25th is fast approaching and with it the deadline for the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to be enforced a ...
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Following the 3-pillar approach to effective secu ...
Large-scale data breaches are reported in the press almost daily, with devastating consequences for the organizations and individ ...
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A smarter way: how analytics apps are solving you ...
Data is coming fast and furious for network providers – how can they understand what is happening so they can make smarter decisi ...
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Ciena’s new coherent chipsets raise the optical b ...
Ciena has unveiled two new coherent chipsets that represent the latest innovations with our WaveLogic 3 technology.
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Fourth Generation 100GbE is the real deal. How we ...
Ciena’s Ivana Lemos explains how with Ciena’s new 8140 Coherent Metro Router you can meet new 100GbE requirements and satisfy you ...
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VodafoneZiggo is revolutionizing the Netherlands’ ...
VodafoneZiggo is leveraging Ciena’s programmable 400G technology to power the Netherlands’ ‘network of the future’. Leo Geert van ...
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Why Packet/OTN Switching is making its way into m ...
Once just a technology for big service provider networks, Packet/OTN Switching is now making its way into Enterprise Metro networ ...
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Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey – 87% Plan Aggregati ...
As part of the annual “Cable’s Fiber Outlook Survey Report”, Heavy Reading surveyed over 200 respondents to get insights on Distr ...
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North Sea Pathways: Digital Oilfields to Ultra-Se ...
Tampnet, a Norwegian based global operator, uses Ciena gear to support the operation of the largest offshore multi-terabit, low l ...