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Back to the Future(com)

The tech and telecom industry descends on São Paulo, Brazil, this week for Futurecom 2017. Ciena's Brian Lavallée details the lat ...

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Ciena unveils WaveLogic Ai: Massive scale and aut ...

Ciena has unveiled WaveLogic Ai, our next generation WaveLogic coherent optical chipset. WaveLogic Ai delivers a combination of s ...

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What is Fiber Densification?

There is a new term that is increasingly cropping up in networking conversations: densification. Ciena’s Helen Xenos explains wha ...

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Shannon’s Limit, or Opportunity?

There’s a looming limit to how many bits can be crammed into an optical fiber, known as the Shannon Limit. Ciena's Brian Lavallée ...

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800G adoption soars in 2020

With the industry’s first programmable 800G solution in market this year, how fast have customers been embracing it? Ciena’s Hele ...

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Metro routing done differently: Unveiling Ciena’s ...

You asked for a different way to build a converged metro network, and we listened. Meet WaveRouter, a reimagined routing platform ...

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Celebrating the Rise of 400G

The era of 400G was in full force at OFC and we took some time to celebrate this milestone. Here are what our customers have to s ...

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From Land to Sea to Cloud

It’s projected that Internet Content Providers will soon account for the majority of submarine traffic in all regions of the worl ...

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What is ZR+?

ZR+ means different things to different people. Learn about the wide range of different solutions encompassed by the generic term ...

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Navigating vendor equipment swaps: Minimizing ris ...

Vendor equipment swaps are typically complex from a technical as well as an operational standpoint due to the need to ensure netw ...

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4 Things We Learned at #OFC17

From 400G to DCI to software-enabled optical networks, OFC'17 was full of news and innovation. We surveyed our experts for their ...

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Introducing WaveLogic 6: Another industry first f ...

1.6 Terabit wavelengths. 800G everywhere. 800G pluggables delivering 1000 km reaches. Seems impossible? Don’t ever tell that to a ...

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Updated: 800G – nothing but the facts

If you have been following Ciena, you know 800G adoption is underway. With that comes a lot of interest and questions. Ciena’s He ...

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What is Gridless Networking?

What is gridless networking? Brian Lavallée, who heads up submarine networks industry marketing for Ciena, provides some insight.

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The frosting on the multi-layered cake – an aweso ...

Communications networks are like those multi-layered cakes, and over-the-top applications are the frosting. Without intelligent n ...

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Autonomous Networks… Are You Ready?

Ciena's Brian Lavallée explains where we are (and where we're going) on the road to autonomous networks.

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Re-Sodding Cable MSO Brownfields

With an increase in demand for high-speed data, IP video, cloud computing, and business services, cable MSO brownfields need to u ...

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GeoMesh Extreme:

Ciena’s Brian Lavallée delves into the depths of submarine networks and their importance to global communications, and how Ciena’ ...

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The Journey to 800G and Beyond

This blog originally appeared on Zayo's website. The road to innovation begins with a map. Sometimes it’s figurative — a roadmap ...

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500G transpacific. Yep, we did that!

The news from SubOptic? Let’s start with our successful single-wavelength 500G field trial over a 9,000km transpacific cable. Cie ...

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Ciena’s 2018 Holiday Bundle is Here!

Spend your downtime this holiday season applying the collective knowledge of some of the world’s best and brightest minds in tele ...

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Packet Cable Landing Stations… Why Not?

As submarine traffic is increasingly dominated by packets going forward, native packet switches will eventually relegate SIE to t ...

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400G Industry Adoption is Taking Off

The adoption of 400G is ramping up. Ciena’s Helen Xenos takes a look at how this compares with adoption rates of technology in th ...

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Why Adaptive is the biggest story in networking

Joe Cumello explains why autonomous networking alone is not enough, and introduces Ciena’s Adaptive Network, which combines the r ...

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