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What’s Next for Cable Business Services?

For cable operators, business services have been a key growth engine for years. Ciena’s Darren McKinney explains how cable MSOs m ...

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What’s new from Ciena in optical? The breadth of ...

Once again Ciena is breaking barriers across both performance and footprint-optimized coherent optics, learn about our latest opt ...

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What’s making the cloud so edge-y?

A new generation of cloud-native applications are arriving that are more compute-intensive and latency-sensitive. Learn how the m ...

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What's New and Different about IP Networking

Omdia and Ciena examine a new way to deliver standards-based IP networks from access to metro, including discussions around 5G xH ...

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What's in store for Asia Pacific Networking in 20 ...

From 5G to AI to the move to virtualization, Ciena’s Anup Changaroth gives his insights on the major trends that are likely to dr ...

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What “the edge” means for telcos

Telecom operators must prepare for the accelerated distribution of processing capabilities toward the network edge. To do that, t ...

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What will research networks look like in 2020?

With their need to share massive amounts of research data with other institutions around the globe, research networks serve as a ...

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What will it take to bring quantum cryptography t ...

The coming of quantum computing requires a revolution in security and encryption to keep data safe. Ciena’s Patrick Scully detail ...

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What the MEF’s CE2.0 initiative means for the ind ...

MEF’s launch of CE 2.0 certification is a very rigorous process. Discover what this overwhelming adoption means for the industry ...

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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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What is Web3 and how does it relate to the metave ...

Web3 is coming, and it embodies a set of technologies that will change the way we interact with our digital universe. Ciena’s Dav ...

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What is the “Right” Approach to Open Source?

So, here we go again. We in the telecom industry are looking at how to transform our networks with SDN, NFV and orchestration. Bu ...

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What is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)?

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offloads network functions into software that runs on industry-standard hardware and can be ...

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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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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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What is Distributed NFV and why do you need it?

Ciena's Brian Lavallée introduces the concept of Distributed NFV, or D-NFV, and why service providers are increasingly looking at ...

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What is Bandwidth on Demand?

Today, connectivity services are a mostly static experience, meaning that once the endpoints and service attributes are defined, ...

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What is an Optical Control Plane?

To help clarify the question of “what is an optical control plane?”, we put together the below infographic that walks through the ...

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What is a network digital twin? And why is it rel ...

Ciena’s Mark Bieberich explores how network digital twins are even more relevant in the context of an AIOps strategy.

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What is a Converged Interconnect Network (CIN)?

The term, Converged Interconnect Network (CIN), has been around for a few years now – but it is only now with its importance in e ...

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What Happens When Quantum Physics Meets Cryptogra ...

Ciena’s Paulina Gomez explains how research and development in cryptography is underway and how it could radically change encrypt ...

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What does the network of the future really look l ...

Future-proof networking is a much-used term in the industry, but what does it really mean? At Ciena, we think there are 7 key req ...

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What do DAA, Network Slicing, Scaling Optical Net ...

Learn about all that Ciena has planned for the upcoming SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2020 Virtual Experience and the forward-looking topic ...

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What criteria does a layer 1 encryption solution ...

Tom Engels of Telindus provides a certification checklist to make sure you get the right level of security and compliance with yo ...

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