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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Septemb ...

This week, we're teaching you how to differentiate your customer experience, sharing how we teamed up with Schweitzer, and discus ...

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Weekly roundup | Ciena network insights | Septemb ...

This week, we're sharing 5 things from a CX Award judge, helping you ensure your network analytics solution can drive intelligent ...

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Weekly roundup: Ciena network insights

You've been busy this week. So have we. From sharing our insights on topics like SDN and self-healing networks to kicking off acr ...

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Weekly roundup: Ciena network insights for Week o ...

This week, we’re getting ahead of the NFV complexity curve, giving you 7 steps to big data analytics and finding out what SDN mea ...

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Weekly roundup: Ciena network insights for Week o ...

This week, we’re starting the countdown to GDPR, sharing lessons from #TMFLive and explaining NFV.

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Weekly roundup: Ciena network insights for Week o ...

This week, we’re reminded that we never stop using lessons learned from Dad, heard about the latest video transport trends at NAB.

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Weekly roundup: Ciena network insights for Week o ...

This week, we’re celebrating Geek Pride, explaining the importance of FlexEthernet and spotlighting Fiber Deep.

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Welcome to Ciena 5G Boot Camp

The path to 5G can be a long, costly, and complex journey fraught with risk, challenges, and of course, significant opportunities ...

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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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