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Year in Review: Ciena’s Top 8 Announcements of 20 ...

As we close out another year, we look back at Ciena's biggest news and announcements of 2017.

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Multi-Terabit Submarine Cables… Too Big to Fail?

Report in 2010 found that nearly 100 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic is carried by the ...

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Ciena's 9 predictions for networks and tech in 20 ...

Some of Ciena's most distinguished experts and execs give their predictions for the upcoming year.

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Deploying coherent plugs – is there more to the s ...

Looking for a reasonable approach to getting started deploying coherent pluggables? Ciena’s Tim Pearson provides the final two st ...

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How pluggables fit into Ciena’s coherent optical ...

Greg Friesen gives an update on Ciena's coherent optical investment strategy and provides some insights into what is next, includ ...

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Year in review: Ciena’s 5 biggest announcements o ...

From an uptick in 400G services to new acquisitions and partnerships, Ciena’s Bo Gowan highlights the biggest Ciena news and anno ...

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Year in review: Ciena’s 7 biggest announcements o ...

As we close out an unprecedented year, let’s look back at some of the biggest Ciena news and announcements from 2020.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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