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Employee-run annual golf tournament is making an ...
On August 16, 2022, after a two-year hiatus, our people came together at the Greensmere Golf and Country Club in Ottawa for the a ...
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Single-wave 400G across 4,000km? Yes – with Ciena ...
Ciena’s popular family of Waveserver products just got a new member – Waveserver 5. With tunable capacity up to 800G and support ...
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The next generation of partnerships – investing i ...
How Ciena’s model for partnership success is impacting customer outcomes
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Managed Services and the art of making molehills ...
Managing your network can quickly become a mountain of effort and resources. Ciena’s Tim Wilson looks at a way to reframe the dis ...
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A closer look at CenturyLink’s Programmable Servi ...
Recep Ozdag details the work the Blue Planet team is doing with CenturyLink as part of their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) ...
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A (Miserable) Day in the Life of a Submarine Fiel ...
Meet Erik. Erik is a submarine network field technician. Erik has a tough job. Let's look at all the challenges he faces in tryin ...
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Utilities are modernizing – here are three conver ...
Ciena's Malcolm Loro gives three recurring challenges he's hearing from Utilities providers as they look to modernize their techn ...
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Meet the leaders of our Black and African Heritag ...
Todd Chapman and Terry Miller, the leaders of our Black and African Heritage employee resource group share what inspired them to ...
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Behind the scenes with Ciena’s new Blue Planet ar ...
Hear the technology experts that have been working directly on our new Blue Planet architecture over the last year.
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Are you asking these questions from potential MPL ...
Are you a transport or a mobile backhaul operator aiming to deploy an easy-to-operate Ethernet transport solution based on MPLS-T ...
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How photonic control plane advancements are benef ...
A photonic control plane is not new to optical networks, but new capabilities are changing how operators can benefit from it. Cie ...
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Rise of the machines, and the options for connect ...
The Internet of Things is coming, and there is a litany of ways they can be connected to the network. Ciena's Brian Lavallée deta ...
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How open standards in optical networks lead to de ...
A tongue-in-cheek saying is: ‘The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from’. Yet open standards play a ...
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Latest trends in optical networks- straight from ...
The optical industry came together in Nice for NGON & DCI World last week. Helen Xenos gives you an update on the important topic ...
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Getting Ahead of the NFV Complexity Curve with Ad ...
One of the concerns of moving to NFV is that the service delivery model can be more complex than traditional hardware-based netwo ...
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How to pick the right partner in the super-hot CA ...
The data center interconnect market in CALA is set for strong growth, with much of it concentrated in Brazil and Mexico.
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Be the Hero of Your Network with Ciena’s Optical ...
What if you could apply the collective knowledge of some of the world’s best and brightest optical minds to your network? You can ...
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800G is here: pushing the boundaries of what your ...
The wait is over. 800G has been tested and proven in real production networks with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme. Learn about how t ...
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Fixed to Flex migration: a proficient way to mode ...
Migrating from a fixed-grid to flex-grid optical infrastructure delivers greater capacity while also reducing cost per bit. But m ...
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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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How utility network managers can gain critical vi ...
Network continuity is vital for utility managers – but traffic congestion can occur at any time impacting the ability to carry th ...
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Can Service Providers Actually Make Money with NF ...
The acceleration of commercial NFV offers in 2016, including announcements from Orange and CenturyLink...
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Is SDN the Golden Ticket? Only if you know how to ...
Just because everyone has a golden ticket doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a smooth ride through the SDN chocolate factory.
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Keep ahead of demand with PlannerPlus—another win ...
Hoping for a way to build out network capacity incrementally to get the most return from capex as soon as possible? Marie Fiala e ...