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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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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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Q&A with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for Europe
We sit down with Joe Marsella, Ciena's CTO for the European region, to get a status update on the European market and his sense o ...
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Q&A with Ron Kline: Predicting the Pace of Ch ...
Ciena's Ron Kline shares his perspective on the many factors that affect the pace of change in our industry and how companies mus ...
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Q&A with Sven Freudenfeld of Lanner: Ciena’s ...
Ciena’s Brian Lavallée talks with Sven Freudenfeld of Lanner, Ciena’s newest Blue Orbit partner, about the company and the evolut ...
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Remember the big picture when scaling your network
Today’s customers are truly asking for a change, putting new demands on the network. The service provider that is able to evolve ...
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Retail Digitization… Friend or Foe?
The online world is acting as a disruptor to the retail industry. But the same tools that allow consumers to become increasingly ...
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SC17: Super Networks for Super Computers
The SC17 conference provides a perfect opportunity to experience the intersection of high-performance computing with high-perform ...
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SCTE Expo 2019 – the importance and opportunities ...
At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this year there were a few aspects of moving to 10G that stood out: the importance of low latency, the ...
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SD-WAN: Threat or Opportunity?
Kevin Wade of Ciena's Blue Planet team says SD-WAN in its purest form can be considered a threat to a service provider's traditio ...
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SDN control – 3 rules for successful deployment
When implementing SDN control in service provider optical networks, what works and what are the key architectural decisions on th ...
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SDN: a not-so-secret ingredient for transforming ...
Software-defined networking or SDN is the key to opening up ICT change programmes.
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Service Orchestration: The Cure for Vendor Silos ...
In order to fully orchestrate services from end-to-end, across both the physical and virtual domains, network operators will now ...
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Software-Defined Control – Brought to You by the ...
SDN is an enabling technology for network transformation, but it is not a one-size-fits-all model. Models vary based on the curre ...
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Spotlight on 4G/5G fronthaul networks
Not sure what xHaul is or why it's critical to the success of 5G? How should operators, MNOs and wholesalers alike, converge 4G a ...
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Strengthen your advantage with Emulation Cloud an ...
In this final blog of the 4-part MCP Applications series, Marie Fiala describes the resources at your disposal to integrate, depl ...
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Survey says - service providers are ready for the ...
What are service providers looking for when it comes to IP/Optical convergence? Heavy Reading asked 220 service provider executiv ...
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Survey: Network operators still see silos with SD ...
Perceived vendor silos are still an issue for network operators looking to move to SDN/NFV for service virtualization. That’s jus ...
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The Adaptive Network: Why automation alone isn’t ...
The technology behind the data collected about us enables information to be collected, analysed, and actioned to provide us with ...
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The Advent of Open Submarine Networks
Even as many of today's networks are moving to open architectures, submarine cable networks have remained closed and proprietary. ...
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The Arrival of Open Utility Networks
The utility industry is undergoing a comprehensive transformation as it modernizes to a more efficient and smarter grid. Because ...
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The DevOps Revolution: The “Jig is Up” for Legacy ...
Ciena Blue Planet introduces its new DevOps Toolkit. The Blue Planet DevOps Toolkit provides a platform to create, modify, test a ...
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The Evolution and Revolution of Networking Servic ...
This is the second in a series of blog posts focusing on SDN and NFV-based on-demand services.
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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 ...